I am a bad food blogger this past week. Its because my mom has been in town and she has been cooking EVERYTHING for me. Are you jealous? You should be! We have a fridge stock-piled full of chicken tortilla soup, mint brownies, chicken enchiladas, homemade spanish rice. Nom Nom Nom.
I plan on getting these recipes out of her because they were so extremely excellent and not terribly hard to make. However, until then--here is a token BBQ Chicken Pizza recipe which is Lars favorite dinner that I make. True story. I got this recipe from my friend Colin during an "experimental" phase he was going through with pizza making...
INGREDIENTS
- Two tablespoons of green onions, chopped
- Cilantro leaves
- Quarter of a yellow pepper
- One tomato, thickly diced
- A bone-less half breast of chicken
- Stubbs BBQ sauce (OR Trader Joe's)
- Trader joe's corn meal pizza dough (Or your garden variety pizza dough)
- One quarter bag (or less) Trader joe's four-cheese italian shredded blend (mozerella is not sharp or salty enough)
- About one and a half table spoons of finely crumpled gorgonzola or plain goat cheese (im trying cotixa next)
Salt and pepper chicken. Coat all sides with BBQ sauce, leaving ample
on the top to carmelize.
Bake chicken for 25 minutes.
Butter pizza pan.
Remove dough from the fridge and flatten immediately (dissregarding
instructions on the packaging). Turn dough between your hands and let
gravity spread it out. Finish at about an eighth of an inch thick.
Top flattened dough with bbq sauce, just a little bit more than you'd
need to glaze it. Use the back of a large spoon.
Top with thin layer of cheese, not obscuring all of the sauce.
Slice pepper lenghwise, in thin strips. Arrange in rough cris-cros
across pizza. Add tomatoes.
Remove chicken from oven, and let rest for 5 minutes before cutting.
Reset oven to 450.
Cut chicken lengthwise, and again across into pieces no thicker than
the flattened dough. Place chicken pieces on the pizza, wedging them
in between the vegetables. Refridgerate remaining half of BBQ chicken
for tomorrow's pizza.
Top with green onions, gorgonzola (or goat cheese) and a handful of
shredded cheese, just for binding.
Top with cilantro and then a half handful of more shredded cheese.
Bake for 10-15 minute, or until the crust crisps brown. Remove, cool
fot 5 minutes and then eat. With a spoon.
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