When I am meal planning, I often like to make things that are similar right next to each other to ensure that I use all of the ingredients and that there are no leftover components sitting in the fridge forever. While I was thinking about the buffalo wing dip , it reminded me something else that I have been wanting to try making for a while, a bbq chicken pizza. A bbq chicken pizza is basically a pizza with barbecue sauce instead of a tomato sauce that is topped with grilled chicken, onions and cheese. I have experimented with replacing the tomato sauce on pizzas before and I have alway been happy with the results so I was looking forward to trying a bbq sauce based pizza. At one point, I was thinking about just using hot sauce but I figured that a homemade bbq sauce would be even better and I had just picked up some liquid smoke that I wanted to try adding to give it a hickory smoke aroma.
The bbq chicken pizza turned out really well! The sweet and spicy hot bbq sauce was simply amazing as a pizza sauce all covered in melted cheese and the smoky aroma took it over the edge. Barbecue chicken is always good and the combination was definitely a winner on this pizza. Now I am looking forward to having the leftovers for breakfast.
BBQ Chicken Pizza
ingredients
- 1/2 pound chicken breast (boneless and skinless)
- 1 pizza dough
- 1/2 cup bbq sauce
- 1 handful red onion (sliced)
- 1/2 cup gouda (grated)
- 1 cup mozzarella (grated)
- 1 ounce blue cheese (crumbled)
- 1 handful cilantro (chopped)
directions
- Grill the chicken until just cooked all the way through, remove from heat, let sit and then slice it into 1/4 inch slices.
- Roll the pizza dough out on a lightly floured surface.
- Spread the bbq sauce over the dough followed by the chicken, onion, and cheeses.
- Bake in a preheated 500F/260C oven until golden brown, about 5-10 minutes.
- Serve garnished with the chopped cilantro.
aaah Kevin waht nice and delicious pizza! I love it! gloria
That pizza looks perfect! Mine always look deformed. Barbecue sauce on a pizza is a nice twist on tradition. Love it!
YUM! This pizza looks so tempting.
Hey, Kev, How about some of your former heart-weight-well-being-healthy recipes?
Like all of your shrimp, etc ?????
Mmmmmmmmmm a complete meal!!
Great pizza!
looks delicious!
Delicious, I know what I'm making for lunch tomorrow! Thanks =D
Looks like a winner!!
I had a Thai Chicken pizza just the other night, I think it is time for a BBQ chicken one soon!!!
A gorgeous pizza! Nice combo!
Cheers,
Rosa
Deliciosa esta pizza. Se ve muy sabrosa. saludos
California Pizza Kitchen (a chain restaurant here) has a bbq chicken pizza that I love…but I bet yours would beat it. hands down.
Good looking pizza Kevin, full of delicious flavours and very colourful!
This looks delicious – makes me think if it would be good grilled?! I recently grilled some pizza and it came out sooo delicious. http://sweetersalt.com/2010/06/26/grilled-pizza/
I am a BBQ Chicken Pizza fan and this looks awesome!
great pizza! hi, nice to meet you and your great blog, i'm an italian foodblogger, sweet maremma blogspot. i'll follow you! kisses from italy
Ha – saw the title & thought of pizza on the BBQ. Someday soon….
Dude your blog is great 🙂 It's exactly what I was looking for since I want to start learning how to cook. Unfortunately I have no idea how to grill or saute. =/ Hopefully one day I will be able to make all the recipes you post here 🙂
I've been thinking of trying a BBQ chicken pizza! I like your combination of cheeses! We have a local BBQ joint that smokes chickens. I think I'll buy a smoked chicken from there to use for such a pizza 🙂
BBQ Chicken Pizza always needs Bacon
A classic pizza! Tangy bbq with blue cheese? Great.
Great looking pizza! I think some diced smoked, salty ham and sweet pineapple chunks would make nice additions as well…yum!!
This is absolutely a very delicious pizza. I love the flavor. Perfect.
This is on my menu for this week, do you think I could use the thin pizza crust for it? Or should I stick with the basic one.
Carmelizing the onions and cooking the chicken in BBQ sauce takes this to the next level!