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Barbecue Chicken Pizza

A delicious Southwestern-style pizza, with barbecued chicken, sweet peppers, cilantro, and pepper jack and mozzarella cheese.
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Prep Time 3 hours
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 3 hours 20 minutes
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 0

Equipment

  • Bread Machine
  • Pizza Stone
  • Pizza Peel
  • Parchment Paper

Ingredients
  

For the Pizza Dough:

  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 3 cups flour (360g)
  • 1/4 cup cornmeal (30g)
  • 1 tsp honey
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp. yeast

For the barbecue sauce:

  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1 cup onion minced
  • 3 cloves garlic minced
  • 1 tbsp. chili powder
  • 1/2 tsp. black pepper
  • 2 tbsp. honey
  • 2 tbsp. rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce
  • 3/4 cup ketchup
  • 1 tbsp soy sauce

For the other pizza toppings:

  • 1 boneless, skinless chicken breast
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1 pinch kosher salt
  • 1/2 tsp cumin
  • 1/2 tsp paprika
  • 1/2 tsp cumin
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder
  • 1/2 tsp onion powder
  • 1/2 lb whole milk mozzarella shredded
  • 1 cup pepper jack cheese
  • 1/2 cup cilantro chopped
  • 1/2 cup red onion sliced
  • 1 cup green and orange peppers sliced

Instructions
 

For the pizza dough:

  • Put all the ingredients in your bread machine, in the order your bread machine suggests. Select the dough cycle.
  • Roll the dough out on a parchment paper covered pizza peel. Brush with olive oil and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise 30 minutes.

To assemble the pizza:

  • Heat the pizza stone for 30 minutes in a 425 degree oven.
  • In a 3 quart saucepan, melt the butter and cook the onion and garlic until it softens. Add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for 15 minutes.
  • Cut the chicken breast in half horizontally. Put it between two sheets of plastic wrap and flatten it with a meat tenderizer. Sprinkle both sides with the spices, and grill on a grill pan until cooked through. Cut into bite sized pieces.
  • Bake the risen pizza dough at 425 degrees for 20
  • Remove the pizza using the pizza peel. Spread the pizza with barbecue sauce, sprinkle it with the cheeses, and then the chicken and vegetables. Bake for 10 minutes. Sprinkle with cilantro.
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