BBQ Chicken Pizza

Name: BBQ Chicken Pizza
Prep time: 1 h 25 min
Cook time: 1 h 25 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 1 dried ancho chile; 3 Tbsps apricot preserves; 118 milliliters bourbon; 1 Tbsp canola oil; 142 grams triple-creme cheese, sliced, such as Cowgirl Creamerys Mt. Tam; 1 dried New Mexico or California chile; 1 teaspoons chili powder; 59 milliliters lightly packed fresh cilantro leaves; 1 Tbsp dark brown sugar; 2 Tbsps dark brown sugar; 1 dried chipotle chile; 2 cloves garlic, chopped; 1 teaspoon granulated garlic; 1 teaspoon granulated onion; 1 teaspoon ground cumin; 355 milliliters ketchup; 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 4 servings Kosher salt and freshly cracked black pepper; 2 Tbsps molasses; 2 Tbsps paprika; 0 teaspoons freshly cracked black pepper; 283 grams ball store-bought pizza dough (about; 118 milliliters finely sliced red onion; 2 chicken breast halves, boneless and skinless, trimmed; 118 milliliters diced white onion

You can never have too many main course recipes, so give BBQ Chicken Pizzan a try. This recipe covers 23% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 606 calories, 21g of protein, and 9g of fat per serving. Head to the store and pick up granulated garlic, freshly cracked pepper, ground cumin, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the pizza dough you could follow this main course with the Grilled Dessert Pizza as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 25 minutes. This recipe is typical of Mediterranean cuisine.

Instructions

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For the chicken and rub: Butterfly the chicken breast halves.

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Chicken Breast Halves

Whole Chicken

Dry Seasoning Rub

Combine the paprika, brown gsugar, granulated garlic, granulated onion, cumin, salt, chili powder and pepper in a resealable plastic bag and shake well to mix everything together.

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Granulated Garlic

Granulated Onion

Chili Powder

Paprika

Pepper

Cumin

Shake

Salt

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Ziploc Bags

Add the chicken breasts and shake again to coat them evenly. Set aside in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to marinate while you prepare everything else.

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Chicken Breast

Shake

Preheat a grill to high heat.

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Grill

For the BBQ sauce: Take the dried chiles, tear them up, discard the stems and seeds and place in a small bowl.

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Dried Chili Pepper

Barbecue Sauce

Seeds

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Bowl

Pour boiling water over them and let sit for 5 to 10 minutes to re-hydrate.

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Water

Drain and discard the water.

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Water

In a medium saucepan, add the canola oil, onions and garlic. Sweat over medium heat until the onions are very soft and fragrant, about 8 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Canola Oil

Garlic

Onion

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Sauce Pan

Add the chiles and bourbon and simmer for 1 minute to let some of the alcohol burn off.

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Alcohol

Bourbon

Chili Pepper

Add the ketchup, preserves, brown sugar and molasses and simmer for 10 minutes to let the flavors come together. Puree and set aside.

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Brown Sugar

Preserves

Molasses

Ketchup

Remove the chicken from the marinade and cook on the hot grill, 5 to 7 minutes per side to get some color.

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Marinade

Whole Chicken

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Grill

Remove and allow to cool. Slice on the bias into pieces.

For the pizza. Dust a bench (or pizza peel if you have one) liberally with flour. Take the ball of pizza dough and press out into a disk, working it gently from the inside out. Continue to work and stretch the dough out until you have about a 12-inch circle. The crust should be nice and thin, about 1/8-inch thick. Set on a floured surface and press gently to flatten.

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Dough

Crust

All Purpose Flour

Spread the BBQ sauce on the pizza in a very even, thin layer. Leave a border as desired around the edges. Top with the shaved red onion, slices of BBQ chicken and slices of cheese. Dot the top with extra patches of BBQ sauce. Slide the pizza into a hot pizza oven and bake until the crust is bubbly and charred around the edges, 12 to 14 minutes. (If baking at home, set a pizza stone in an oven at 500 degrees F to warm up for 1 hour).

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Barbecue Sauce

Red Onion

Whole Chicken

Cheese

Crust

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Pizza Stone

Oven

When done, remove from the oven and scatter the top with fresh cilantro leaves.

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Fresh Cilantro

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Oven

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Recommended wine: Chianti, Trebbiano, Verdicchio

Italian works really well with Chianti, Trebbiano, and Verdicchio. Italians know food and they know wine. Trebbiano and Verdicchio are Italian white wines that pair well with fish and white meat, while Chianti is a great Italian red for heavier, bolder dishes. The Antinori Badian a Passignano Chianti Classico Gran Selezione with a 4.6 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 60 dollars per bottle.