The Best Chicken Pizza Recipe
This Chicken Pizza comes together in about 30 minutes, and is made with a bunch of grocery store shortcuts, but it still has big gourmet pizzeria flavor. Recipe includes instructions to make it either on the grill or in the oven.
Ingredients
- Nonstick cooking spray for oven directions
- 1 ball homemade pizza dough or store-bought (1 pound)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil divided (for grill directions)
- ¾ cup prepared pizza sauce
- 1 cup cooked and pulled/chopped chicken
- ½ cup roasted garlic cloves from 3 heads; see Notes below
- 8 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese sliced
- 1 tablespoon everything bagel seasoning
- 1 cup baby spinach torn
Instructions
OVEN DIRECTIONS
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Spray large pizza pan with cooking spray. Toss and stretch pizza dough into 14-inch circle and place on prepared pan. Transfer to oven and bake 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven. Spread crust evenly with pizza sauce. Top with chicken, roasted garlic cloves, cheese and everything bagel seasoning.
- Return pizza to oven and bake for an additional 6 to 8 minutes or until cheese is melted, chicken and garlic are warmed, and dough is cooked through. Sprinkle spinach over pizza; return pizza to oven and bake 2 minutes. Cut and serve immediately.
GRILL DIRECTIONS
- Preheat grill for two-zone grilling: half of grill should be set to medium-high (this is the direct grilling zone); other half should be off (this is the indirect heat zone).
- Stretch and shape dough into 14-inch circle and place on pizza pan or large tray. Brush one side of dough with 1 tablespoon oil (a silicone basting brush works well for this). Use hands to carefully transfer dough to direct heat side of grill, oiled side down. Do not worry if dough becomes a little misshapen during the transfer, it will still be delicious. Cook 2 minutes, or until the dough releases itself from the grates (do not disturb dough before it releases).
- Brush top side of dough with remaining 1 tablespoon oil, then use tongs to flip dough. Cook 2 minutes or until dough releases from grates. Continue cooking dough 3 to 4 minutes longer or until dough is firm and grill-marked in all areas, flipping and rotating frequently but keeping grill closed when not flipping.
- Remove dough from grill and spread with pizza sauce. Top with chicken, roasted garlic cloves, cheese and everything bagel seasoning.
- Transfer pizza back to grill on indirect heat side. Close grill and cook 8 to 10 minutes or until toppings are warmed through and crust is fully cooked.
- Remove pizza from grill and top with spinach. Cut and serve immediately.
Notes
- The EASIEST way to get roasted garlic cloves is buy a scoop from the olive bar at an upscale grocery store.
- To roast garlic at home: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Trim off the tops of 3 whole heads of garlic until the tops of the cloves are exposed. Wrap garlic heads in foil and place on small rimmed baking pan. Transfer to oven and cook 50 to 70 minutes or until garlic is dark golden brown and very soft. Remove from oven and let stand for 10 minutes or until cool enough to touch. Squeeze garlic cloves from their skin into a small bowl.
- Garlic can be roasted up to 3 days in advance. Keep in covered container in refrigerator until ready to use.
Serving: 2slices, Calories: 569kcal, Carbohydrates: 56g, Protein: 31g, Fat: 25g, Saturated Fat: 10g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g, Monounsaturated Fat: 10g, Cholesterol: 71mg, Sodium: 1512mg, Potassium: 370mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 8g, Vitamin A: 1301IU, Vitamin C: 11mg, Calcium: 335mg, Iron: 4mg
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