Ciabatta Bread Crab Pizzas with Havarti Cheese Cream Sauce

This recipe is so easy, healthy and delicious! Using extra virgin olive oil, kosher salt and fresh lemon juice, herbs and creamy havarti cheese, you will so enjoy these personal little pizzas! A perfect summer lunch with a baby spinach salad dressed with red wine vinegar and oil, dried cranberries, feta cheese and pinenuts. Yum!

{serves 6}
1 cup shredded cooked crab meat
1 cup fresh finely chopped broccoli floret tips (no stems)
1/2 cup minced red onion
1 tsp. fresh minced chives
1 tsp. fresh minced parsley

3 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp. kosher salt
1/2 tsp. fresh ground black pepper
juice from 1 lemon
2 tbsp. butter
2 tbsp. all purpose flour
3/4 cup skim milk
3 oz. cubed havarti cheese
3 oz. shredded mozzarella cheese
3 "loaves" ciabatta bread, sliced in half and toasted

Place olive oil into a saute' skillet and add minced red onion, broccoli and kosher salt. Cook on medium heat until tender. Add crab meat, chives and parsley, and fold together gently. Set aside and prepare the cream sauce in a small saucepan by melting the butter, adding the flour and making a roux, using a small whisk. Add milk slowly, allowing the sauce to thicken slowly. Add lemon juice, fresh ground black pepper and Havarti cheese cubes, allowing the cheese to meld into the sauce and thicken. Remove from heat. Your kitchen smells amazing, right?!

Slice the Ciabatta loaves in half, creating 6 squares. Toast them dry {I just pop them into my toaster} and allow to cool. Spread the cheese sauce evenly divided among the toasted bread, taking it to the edges. Top with the crab mixture and mozzarella cheese and bake at 400 degrees just until the cheese melts. Serve and enjoy or follow instructions on freezing with a Foodsaver bag below. If you haven't figured it out by now, I am a Foodsaver addict.

Allow pizzas to cool and measure out a Foodsaver bag to accommodate all of them, adding about 8 inches for sealing the ends. Seal one end with the Foodsaver, write on the bag the item info, and place the pizzas inside, pushing them all the way to the sealed end. Seal the other end, and Voila! They are good for up to 6 months in your freezer.

Yummy for lunchtime on "free days"
7 & 14 of IGNITE 15!