Chicken Pizza Recipe

Chicken Pizza Recipe, A family favorite recipe which is made by cooking chicken with Indian spices and Italian herbs. Whole wheat pizza dough is topped with pizza sauce, spicy chicken filling, cheese, onions, tomatoes and peppers. Delicious chicken pizza cooked in a forged iron pan to get crispy crust and cheesy golden topping. Learn easy methods to make my Iconic crispy crust pizza with step-by-step pictures and video.

Chicken Pizza

My kids like every other kids loves pizza. They like my homemade pizza than any store bought ones. For me, Pizza must have crispy base, soft chewy crust and cheesy top. I actually have made pizza so over and over before and shared many versions on the blog but never got the right crispy crust. But my life is modified now, Ever since I began making pizza in my forged iron pan, there isn’t any turning back. I actually have tried similar forged iron method using oven for my veggie pizza.

About Chicken Pizza

Pizza is one of the vital popular and loved food everywhere in the world. Crispy, soft crust, with tomato basil pizza sauce, topped with favorite toppings and sprinkled with generous amount of mozzarella cheese which is baked till cheesy and bubbly. This cheese loaded pizza can be most loved dish from kids to adults.

Perfect pizza must have a crispy base and fluffy chewy interior. Traditionally pizza is made in wood fired oven which is a domed shape clay oven (brick oven) which gets over 500 degree c easily. Baking pizza in this kind of oven will lead to crispy crust and cheesy top in minutes. Replicating it at home might be difficult because in our household we own an electrical oven which may get to 250 degree C. But I actually have an answer for that, It is rather easy, convenient, budget friendly and reasonably priced.

Hungry for More Pizza, check my margherita pizza, vegetable cheese pizza, or this mushroom pizza.

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Find out how to Get Crispy Crust Pizza

I actually have tried so many pizza recipes, with different techniques and tricks. I never got good result with the crust. All of the pizza tasted great but I missed the crispy crust a lot. Thats once I got here across a recipe for pizza using forged iron pan.

Pizza made in a forged iron pan all the time turns to be perfect. Pizza starts cooking over stove top in a forged iron pan till the bottom gets crispy, I finish cooking the pizza under the broil. Broiling pizza for the last 2 minutes on the very best temperature makes the cheese gets molten, bubbly, golden.

Now you will have an ideal pizza with crispy crust and cheesy top. This method for making forged iron pizza might be made using any pizza dough. You should utilize whole wheat pizza dough, regular basic pizza dough or No Yeast Pizza dough. If you will have no time available, you may check my No cook pizza base.

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Find out how to Make Chicken Pizza (Stepwise Pictures)

Make Chicken Filling

1)Heat olive oil in a kadai. Add in sliced onions, tomatoes and chopped bell peppers within the oil. You may add some chopped garlic and even ginger garlic paste.

2)Saute onions and tomatoes for two to three minutes. After raw smell has gone, add in chopped chicken. I used chicken breast which I chopped into small pieces.

3)Add in salt, chilli powder or paprika and garlic powder into the chicken. As a substitute of garlic powder you may add garlic paste.

4)Saute this spices with the chicken for two to three minutes till the chicken is tossed within the masala and onion tomato mixture.

5)Cover and cook the chicken for 3 to 4 minutes on low heat. Should you use boneless chicken thigh it would take little longer to cook.

6)Now the chicken is cooked completely. if there’s any moisture, increase the warmth to high and evaporate the moisture before adding the spices.

Add in dried oregano, dried basil, red chilli flakes. I added some garam masala powder for Indian touch. You may skip that in the event you want.

7)Add in some tomato ketchup or pizza sauce. This totally to your taste.

8)Mix well till the chicken is coated with the spicy masala. This mixture must be thick and masala like.

9)Finally I added some chopped coriander leaves. For a variation, you may add chopped basil leaves as well.

10)That is your chicken filling for pizza. As mentioned within the blog post, I made the filling Indian style. Put aside till needed.

Make Pizza Dough

11)For this chicken pizza, you should utilize any pizza dough. You should utilize whole wheat pizza dough, regular basic pizza dough or No Yeast Pizza dough. If you will have no time available, you may check my No cook pizza base.

On this recipe, I used my whole wheat pizza dough. Once the dough is risen, I took a portion of it and spread on a silicon mat using rolling pin or your hands.

Cooking Pizza in Solid Iron Pan

12)For cooking this pizza, I’m using forged iron pan. That is forged iron dosa pan or pizza pan which I actually have. You should utilize forged iron skillet. Place the forged iron pan on stove top, don’t heat yet, drizzle olive oil on the forged iron pan.

13)Now place the rolled out pizza base on the greased forged iron pan. Now activate the warmth and cook on lowest heat possible. Meanwhile assemble the pizza. Spread some pizza sauce on top of the pizza.

14)Spread the chicken filling over the pizza, sprinkle a generous amount of mozzarella cheese on top of the chicken filling. Be generous with the cheese. You may have to cook the pizza on low heat for five minutes till the bottom gets little crispy.

Toppings for Pizza

15)Now for pizza toppings you should utilize whatever you want. For this kind of pizza I wish to use slices of onions, tomatoes and chopped bell peppers. Should you enjoy olives, you may sprinkle some olives on top.

Broiling Pizza in oven

16)Once the bottom of the pizza gets little crispy on the bottom, pop it into the preheated oven. The oven is preheated at 250 degree C. Place the forged iron pan under the Broil and cook for 1 to 2 minutes till the cheese gets bubbly and golden brown.

Should you haven’t got oven. You may proceed cooking the pizza within the forged iron pan, but I’ll suggest you to cover and cook the pizza with a lid and cook on very low heat. The pizza can be cooked in 8 to 10 minutes. By this time, the pizza base can be crispy and top can be cheesy and bubbly.

17)Once the pizza comes out of the oven, immediately remove to a cooling rack or cutting board, slice into wedges and serve hot.

Expert Suggestions

• You should utilize tofu, paneer, mushroom or mixed vegetables like carrot, beans, cauliflower as an alternative of chicken for vegetarian version.
• Sliced olives adds an exquisite toppings.
• Extra sprinkling of red chilli flakes and oregano seasoning might be done.

Find out how to Make Pizza without Oven

Should you haven’t got oven. You may proceed cooking the pizza within the forged iron pan, but I’ll suggest you to cover and cook the pizza with a lid and cook on very low heat. The pizza can be cooked in 8 to 10 minutes. By this time, the pizza base can be crispy and top can be cheesy and bubbly.

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