BBQ Chicken Pizza
These BBQ Chicken Pizzas are sweet, smoky, and guaranteed to be a crowd-pleaser on pizza night.
Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 1 pound Fresh pizza dough thawed overnight if frozen
- ¾ cup BBQ sauce divided, plus additional drizzle for garnish
- ½ teaspoon Kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon Fresh ground black pepper
- 2 cups Shredded chicken breast
- ½ of a Small red onion very thinly sliced
- ½ cup Freshly shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 cup Freshly shredded monterey jack cheese
Garlic butter for crust
- 1 tablespoon Butter
- 1 clove Garlic pressed or grated
- ¼ teaspoon Kosher salt
Garnish
- Chopped cilantro optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450℉. Position the rack in the lower ⅓ of the oven. If you have a pizza stone, place the stone on the rack and allow it to heat up.
- Stretch the pizza dough into about a 12” circle on a large cutting board or pizza peel dusted generously with cornmeal. Dock (poke) gently with fork, this helps prevent large air bubbles. If baking on a sheet pan, transfer shaped dough to the sheet pan and re-shape if needed. *If using fresh dough and it isn’t rolling out easily, cover it with plastic wrap and allow it to rest for 10 minutes, then try again.
- Make the garlic butter: place all garlic butter ingredients in a microwave safe bowl and microwave until butter is melted, about 30 seconds. Brush all over the pizza crust.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl add the shredded chicken with the salt, pepper and 2 tablespoons of the BBQ sauce. Mix until combined. Set aside.
- Spread the remaining BBQ sauce onto the pizza dough leaving about a ½” border around the outside of the crust without sauce. Top with the BBQ chicken mixture, both cheeses, and red onion.
- Carefully place the pizza on the hot pizza stone while wearing oven gloves, or place sheet pan in the oven if using. Reshape if needed, but it’s ok if it’s not round. Bake for 15-18 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the top is golden brown.
- Remove from the oven, garnish immediately with the cilantro, and a light drizzle of BBQ sauce if desired. Allow to cool 5 minutes before slicing and serving.
Notes
- Most grocery stores have fresh balls of pizza dough or frozen fresh dough, or you can also buy a pound of dough from your local pizza place.
- We used baked, seasoned, skinless, boneless chicken breasts for this pizza. For step by step instructions on cooking and shredding chicken, check out this post on how to shred chicken.
Nutrition
Calories: 683kcal | Carbohydrates: 78g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 25g | Saturated Fat: 12g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 99mg | Sodium: 2146mg | Potassium: 346mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 26g | Vitamin A: 597IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 343mg | Iron: 5mg
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