Thursday, December 29, 2011

~Homemade BBQ Chicken Pizza~

I have started to make specialty pizzas on Friday nights since Jeremy loves pizza so much. I don't really care for the pizza you get at Papa John's and types like it, but I do like pizza that is a Mediterranean style of sorts. We made our own BBQ sauce recipe for this, but you can use any BBQ (without HFCS high fructose corn syrup) of course. I also always make my own homemade whole wheat pizza dough {for a great recipe, click here}.

Once you have rolled out the dough, brush the crust with olive oil. Spoon on the BBQ sauce, cooked chicken and thinly sliced red onion.

Next, add a lot of cilantro. I like a lot of cilantro!

Then you can add mushrooms {I love them, so I put them}. Others don't put mushrooms on their BBQ pizza. Totally up to you. Mushrooms are good for you! They have zero cholesterol, zero fat, and very low carbs. Mushrooms are also said to help prevent breast and prostate cancer. To learn more about the health benefits of mushroom, click here.

After you sprinkle on the Jack cheese, cook at 450 for 20-25 minutes and voila! Homemade BBQ sauce on homemade whole wheat pizza dough that the family can enjoy because it's delicious and healthy-ish too.

serves 2

you'll need:

1 whole wheat pizza dough
olive oil for the crust
1 1/2-2 c. BBQ sauce
1 chicken breast, cooked, chopped in small pieces
1 handful of chopped cilantro
1/2 c. thinly sliced red onion
handful of chopped mushrooms
shredded Jack cheese

get busy:

Preheat the oven to 450. Roll out the pizza dough, brushing olive oil on the crust. Next, pour on the BBQ sauce and even spread around the crust, leaving about a 1/2 inch or so of crust. Add the cooked chicken breast pieces, and evenly sprinkle on the cilantro, red onion, and mushrooms. Then add the Jack cheese and pop it into the oven. Cook for 20-25 minutes. Enjoy.

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