Hi guys I am Laura Vitale.
On this episode of Laura in the kitchen I want to show you pizza that has been requested
for so long.
Now you know back I made my buffalo chicken pizza, but since then I have had lot of request
for a barbecue chicken pizza.
Now I want to share with you my recipe for it because, even though it is simple there
are a few things I really feel like it makes this really special and really, really phenomenal
so I am thrilled to share it with you.
Now Let's go over the ingredients so we can get started.
You will need some pickled jalapeno slices - I have got some red onion that I have sliced
into thin little pieces.
I have also got some cooked chicken, and this happens to be some grilled chicken breast
that I grilled last night and I have some leftovers.
But any left over grilled chicken or any chicken will do.
You will need some shredded Mozzarella and some shredded smoked mozzarella, some good
quality barbecue sauce which you can buy at your regular grocery store or you can make
your own.
And my barbecue sauce - I have a recipe on my website along with my pizza dough or you
can buy pizza dough at your local grocery store or even at your local pizza shop, they
will be able to sell you pizza dough but I have a recipe on my website for it if you
want to make it homemade because it is phenomenal.
Now, the first thing you want to do is to get your oven to preheated to 450F.
If you have a pizza stone which I do - I always make my pizza on my pizza stone - you want
to make sure your pizza stone has been preheating for about half hour along with the oven, you
want it to get nice and hot.
I am going to make mine using a pizza peel, if you don't have a pizza peel or you don't
have a pizza stone you can just take a large baking sheet or a cookie sheet flip it upside
down pop it into the oven to get it nice and hot and just use a another baking sheet, flip
that upside down so you have a nice smooth surface, you can use that instead of a pizza
stone.
Hope that has helped.
Okay, some of the things that make the recipe so incredibly good, for me is the pickled
jalapeno and raw onions are a must because the spicy pickled of the jalapeno going with
the sweet barbecue sauce is just an amazing combination and I like to use a mixture of
smoked mozzarella and regular mozzarella because the smokiness just really goes - the smokiness
and barbecue sauce are like match made in heaven.
I am going to take my cooked chicken and just cut it into bite size pieces and this is just
a couple of chicken breasts that I had leftover in the fridge from dinner last night.
We had some really nice weather yesterday so what I did was, I lit up the grill and
I cooked up a bunch of different stuff and I had purposely cooked up extra chicken breast
so I can use in this recipe today.
I am just combining the barbecue sauce and the chicken together and now that that's done,
I am going to completely set this aside and I am just going to take my mixture of smoked
mozzarella and regular mozzarella and I am going to combine the two together just to
make life a little easier.
Just get everything ready.
I just floured my work surface and I also lightly floured my pizza peel you want to
make sure that it's nice and floured and now I am just going to roll this out to a 12 inch
circle -now if you don't want to do this with your hands or you don't know how to do this
with your hands, by all means just take a rolling pin and roll it out.
But I have shown you guys this many, many times, the easiest way to do this is first
form a border and take your two fingers; your index finger and your middle finger and you
just - and you pop any air bubbles - totally fine - you can even go in with a knife but
- you just use your opposite hand to help keep everything, I guess in place if that
makes any sense and once you have created your border this is going to be your crust
and then you go in with your fingers and you flatten things as easiest as possible now
because you have this border, you can use - you can cup one of your hands, right, and
use your other hand to stretch things out.
Just like that and you still have your border and just stretch it out a bit, and we will
be able to stretch it a bit more with the you know - with our hands in just a second.
I just want to get this loosened up a bit so that when I do go and stretch this with
my hands, there is no tearing.
And I just take, you know my hands - make like two fists and then you literally just
flip it and pull, flip it and pull, and you want to make sure that you have a border already
formed but you want to make sure that the pizza is all or one, like it's all the same
thickness.
So I am just going to keep doing that until I have a 12 inch circle and we will be able
to move on.
That looks good.
Beautiful.
And again, you can definitely use a rolling pin if you don't want to do this by hand.
I am going to go in with my hands because it's just the easiest way to do this and you
have to work quickly because the last thing you want is for the bottom to stick to your
pizza peel.
So I am just going to take my chicken, and I am just going to spread this out all over
my crust.
Now that looks incredible to me!
You can see there's a lot of chicken covering pretty much the whole surface.
Now what I am going to do is take my mixture of cheeses - take my mixture of cheeses and
I'm going to cover my chicken with it.
Now the reason why I prefer to do this instead of doing the cheese first then the chicken
is because you have to remember, we are adding cooked chicken.
The cheese is going to provide almost a blanket and keep the chicken moist if that makes any
sense whatsoever.
But trust me, it works wonders so I'm just going to use up the rest of my cheese here
you can do as little or as much as you want but remember the mozzarella and the smoked
mozzarella is a combination made in heaven so please, please add that to your barbecue
chicken pizza.
It makes a huge difference.
And then you know obviously it's optional to add the onions and the jalapenos but you
haven't had an outstanding barbecue chicken pizza until you have it with pickled jalapenos
and red onions - it's amazing!
And then I just put my pickled jalapenos on top and I am trying to work quickly so that
nothing sticks to the bottom of my pizza peel.
And look at that, I mean who - you will not need to call your local pizza guy for a barbecue
chicken pizza, because I guarantee you it's not going to be this awesome.
So I have got pretty much all my toppings on, I don't want to waste this onion so I
am just going to throw it on there.
Pop this into your preheated oven at 450F for about 15 minutes or so or until the bottom
is nice and golden brown and crispy and everything is melted and ooey gooey and delicious and
beautiful.
So I am going to pop this in and I am going to show you what it looks like when it's done.
If that's not picture perfect, I am not quite sure what out there is because this looks
amazing and smells even better, in the oven for 15 minutes and it is just perfection.
I have let it cool for a couple of minutes and I have shared this tip with you before.
If your pizza has a lot of toppings and you go head an cut it with the pizza cutter, instead
of running across, because you will be pulling all the hot toppings, you just rock back and
forth if I didn't rock back and forth, then all the ingredients, you know the toppings
would slide all over the place.
I am going to cut this into eight because I just feel like that's - I am used to - you
guys know I used to work at my dad's pizza shop for years, so I am used to cutting pizza
into 8.
Last one.
That looks incredible, I mean look at that, I think I am going to go for this one right
here because, to be honest with you, the barbecue sauce mixed with jalapenos are my favorite
part and it's like right there.
It's going to be the first bite, I mean look at that.
That is beyond perfection.
The mixes of the mozzarella is dead on, the jalapenos are spicy but mixed with that sweet
barbecue sauce - I don't know but it's a match made in heaven.
Perfect pizza crust.
There's nothing as say here.
Go to Laurainthekitchen.com to get this recipe, please let me know down below what you want
to see for next pizza - for a pizza recipe, I definitely want to do a Sicilian pizza like
some thicker pizzas but you let me know down below because as always, of course, I read
your comments and I always get inspired by all of you.
Hope you've enjoyed spending time with me and I will see you next time.
Bye bye!