We have pizza quite often because it is easy and customizable. Changing up the ingredients is the fun part of pizza. There are so many different exciting ingredients to use for pizza. This recipe is a delightful change to pizza day.
This recipe uses pressure canned chicken, homemade BBQ sauce, and fresh pizza dough for an amazingly delicious dinner. It comes together fairly quickly, especially if the dough is made ahead of time or parbaked.
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BBQ Chicken Pizza
Ingredients
Pizza Dough
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1 tsp Instant yeast
- 1 tsp Sea salt
- 2/3 cups Warm water
- 2 tsp Olive oil
- 1⅔ cup Bread flour
Toppings
- 3 strips Bacon
- 1 pint jar canned chicken (approx. 1 #)
- 1 cup BBQ sauce
- 1 tbsp Olive oil
- 1 tsp Garlic powder
- 1/4 cup Hot banana peppers
- 1/4 cup Yellow onions (diced)
- 1 cup Freshly shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup Freshly shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 tbsp Fresh chopped cilantro
Instructions
Pizza Dough
- To make the pizza dough, combine sugar, yeast, sea salt and warm water into the bowl of a stand mixer. Allow to rest for a few minutes for the yeast to bloom. It will become a little foamy on top.
- Add the bread flour and oil to the mixing bowl.
- Using the dough hook attachment, slowly knead the dough until the flour is cleaned off the bowl and the dough is a soft dough ball. This should take about 10 minutes.
- Cover the bowl with a tea towel and allow to rise at room temperature for 2 hours or place in the refrigerator for 8 hours for a slow rise. If refrigerating the dough, remove from the refrigerator an hour before assembling the pizza so that the dough warms up and is easy to shape.
Toppings
- Cook bacon until crispy, either in a skillet or baked in a 350℉ oven for about 20-25 minutes or until nice and crispy.
- Preheat the oven to 400℉
- In a mixing bowl, combine shredded chicken and a 1/2 cup of BBQ sauce. Stir to cover all the chicken with the BBQ sauce.
- Flour the work surface for the pizza dough and stretch into a 12-inch pizza circle. Place the dough onto a pizza pan.
- Spread the remainder 1/2 cup of BBQ sauce over the center of the pizza dough, leaving an inch around the outside not sauced.
- Using a pastry brush, lightly brush the outer crust of the dough with olive oil.
- Sprinkle the garlic powder onto the oiled dough. This will give the crust a garlic bread like flavor.
- Evenly spread the BBQ chicken over the entire sauced pizza.
- Sprinkle the chopped, crispy bacon over the chicken.
- Cover the chicken and bacon with the cheeses.
- Evenly sprinkle the banana peppers, onion, and cilantro over the cheese.
- Bake the BBQ chicken pizza for 20-25 minutes, or until the crust is crispy on the bottom and the cheese is melted and bubbly.
- After removing the pizza from the oven, allow to rest for 5 minutes before cutting.
