Description
This BBQ Chicken Pizza takes your ordinary pizza recipe to the next level!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1/3 cup your favorite BBQ sauce
- 1 cup diced, cooked chicken
- 2 shallots
- 2 cloves garlic
- few sprigs of fresh thyme
- cooked bacon
- Jalapeno, sliced with seeds removed
- red pepper flakes
- cherry tomatos sliced
- olive oil
Pizza Dough
- 3 cups warm water
- 1 TBSP sugar
- 2 1/4 TBSP Yeast or 3 packets
- 1 TBSP salt
- 6 cups or more of unbleached flour (I recommend a good brand like King Arthur)
- olive oil
Instructions
To make pizza dough:
- Combine the warm water, sugar, and yeast in large bowl
- Let stand for 15 minutes or until it begins to foam
- Add salt and stir. Add 4 cups of flour and stir with a wooden spoon
- Continue adding about 1 1/2 cups of flour until you are unable to stir anymore
- Put dough on a lightly floured surface and knead for about 8 minutes
- Keep gradually adding flour as needed
- Divide your dough in half and add to separate bowls that are coated with olive oil
- Cover and let rise for 1 hour or until it has doubled in size
- Punch the dough before placing it in the fridge for a night or two
- When you are ready to use your dough, remove from refrigerator and allow it to warm to room temperature
- When shaping your pizza, I recommend you pull and stretch rather than roll out the dough
- When baking your pizza, always use a very hot oven, I recommend baking at 450 and cooking on the top rack
To make pizza:
- First, you’ll want to roast your shallots, In a frying pan, add 2 TBSP olive oil
- Allow it to heat up and then add a few sprigs of thyme and shallots (If necessary, you can cut your shallots in half, be sure to remove the skin before cooking)
- Allow the shallots to brown on the outside, then turn the heat down to med-low and cover
- After 20 minutes, add minced garlic and cook for 30 seconds
- Remove from heat and set aside for later
- Work your room tempt dough into a nice round shape, using the pull and stretch method
- Transfer to pizza pan and add 1/3 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce and 1 cup of mozzarella cheese
- Add pieces of cooked bacon, diced chicken, sliced cherry tomatoes, Jalapenos and roughly chopped the roasted shallots
- Make sure to get some of the garlic from the pan
- Finish off with the rest of the mozzarella cheese
- Bake at 450 for 12 minutes
- Top with red pepper flakes to your taste
Notes
- When baking your pizza, always use a very hot oven, I recommend baking at 450 and cooking on the top rack.
- I personally use a pizza pan with holes in it, it allows the bottom of the crust to get nice and crispy!