BBQ Chicken Pizza - Just Like California Pizza
Kitchen's
I recently added this recipe for BBQ Chicken Pizza to my Best Copycat Restaurant Recipes Blog
and I thought that it might be something that the readers of The Weekend Grillers might
enjoy.
Now obviously is not real BBQ. As it's made at California Pizza Kitchen, the BBQ Chicken Pizza is
just chicken with BBQ Sauce. There's nothing wrong with that, but there's also nothing to stop us from using real
barbeque. For that matter there is nothing to stop us from changing the chicken to any other meat we want to try.
BBQ Pork Pizza sounds like a winner.
Anyway, I thought it might be something to get a
BBQ fix on a long winter's night and that you might enjoy it.
California Pizza Kitchen's BBQ Chicken PizzaIngredients: (See first note below)
Chicken:
- ½ to 1 lb of boneless/skinless Chicken Breasts cut into ¼ inch pieces
- 1 tbspn Olive Oil
- 2 tbspns BBQ Sauce
Pizza:
- 1 basic Pizza Dough
- Some Cornmeal, Semolina or Flour for easy handling of the Dough
- ½ cup BBQ Sauce (Or more. Just keep the bottle handy - Mark)
- 2 tbspns shredded Smoked Gouda Cheese
- 2 cups shredded Mozzarella Cheese
- ½ cup Red Onion Pieces - sliced into ¼ inch pieces
- 2 tbspns chopped fresh Cilantro
Directions
Preheat the Oven to 500 Degrees (see second note below)
Cook the Chicken:
- Fry the Chicken in the Olive Oil over medium heat until just cooked - about 5 to 6
minutes. Do not overcook.
- Set in refrigerator until chilled.
- Add the two tablespoons of BBQ sauce and toss to coat.
- Set aside.
Assemble the Pizza:
- Using a large spoon, spread BBQ Sauce evenly over the prepared dough.
- Sprinkle Smoked Gouda over the Sauce.
- Cover with 1 ½ cups Mozzarella.
- Distribute Chicken pieces over chesse.
- Spinkle onion pieces over top.
Bake the Pizza:
- Place the Pizza in the Preheated oven and bake until the center is bubbly - about 8
to 10 minutes.
- Remove pizze and sprinkle with Cilantro.
- Slice and Enjoy.
Note: The amounts listed above will make a LARGE pizza (up to 18 inches.) If your crusts,
oven or appetites are smaller, either halve the ingredients or make two pizzas using half the ingredients on
each.
Note: The hotter you can make your oven, the better it is for cooking pizza. This is the major reason that a
Pizzaria Pizza turns out better than a homemade pizza. The professional ovens in a Pizzaria will crank up many
times hotter than the average home oven. There are a couple of things you can do to help make your oven cook pizza
better:
- Buy a good Pizza Stone. A Pizza Stone is a big piece of tile you stick on the bottom
shelf of your oven and just leave there. It does several things to help with baking but mainly it holds and
concentrates the heat, thus making the oven hotter and more efficient. This is especially good when cooking
pizza. Get a good pizza stone at any Kitchen or department store or check out the one below.
- Preheat your oven (with you Pizza Stone inside to absorb as much heat as
possible) on the highest setting for up to an hour before you cook the pizza.
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