(audience clapping) One of the things I made
for the return of 30 minute
meals on Food Network was a skillet pan pizza.
The crew all of my friends, everybody went bananas for it.
So now every couple of months I feel it's my duty to come
up with a new skillet pan pizza.
So we preheat a large cast iron skillet,
and we are literally gonna make a deep dish pan pizza
which I cook in the oven at 500 degrees so you could
totally make this in under 30 minutes,
and they are so much fun and delicious.
The pizza dough just stop at your favorite pizzeria
and ask them if you could buy a bowl of their dough,
or of course in the refrigerated
and the freezer sections of our larger grocery stores
we now have lots of great options.
Also online, you will see my recipe for the easiest pizza
dough that we make at my house for my family.
So pick it up at the store or make your own home made.
We're going to make a cowboy skillet pan pizza today.
We're gonna make our own barbecue sauce
although if you want to do a short cut
and if you have a favorite brand feel free to buy your
favorite brand and just marry it.
Here's the first cowboy part to pulled rotisserie chicken
or chopped beef brisket.
So we're gonna take barbecue chicken
or barbecue beef put it onto our pan pizza
so now it's like a barbecue pizza.
Then we're gonna top it with two cheeses
pepper jack and mozzarella.
We're gonna bake that off and then right before we eat it,
we're gonna squeeze some ranch dressing all over it.
(audience applause) Yeah yeah yeah.
Whew!
All right.
For the pan for our barbecue sauce.
Hey you guys, you guys!
Yeah.
Just a moment.
(laughter)
You guys I forgot to put ketchup or tomato sauce in the
thing can you bring some out to me?
Yeah.
Sorry.
(laughter)
The barbecue sauce is missing the tomato product duh.
(audience applause)
For the spices, for this barbecue for the cowboy pizza
we're gonna put in some smoked sweet paprika,
some hot medium or mild chili powder,
this one is mild ancho chili powder.
A little Mexican oregano, anytime we use a dried leaf
we lightly crush it in the palm in our hand
and we add it to the mix.
Smokey cumin,
and its buddy coriander its side-kick.
Stir this together.
We cooked out our onion with a little bit of stock.
Chicken or beef stock depending on what you're using
rotisserie chicken or beef.
We'll grate in our garlic.
Okay now we use our barbecue components.
Vinegar of choice lean your head back cause this gonna
clean out your sinuses big time.
Fat splash of vinegar.
Balance that with a little sugar, I love horrible light
brown sugar, because it's horrible.
Hello!
Right, doesn't all harden up on you.
A fat splash of worcestershire couple of passes of the pan.
A smaller splash of soy or smoked soy.
And, oh about three quarters of a cup of ketchup
or tomato sauce.
Stir this together and that's our barbecue base that
we're gonna bathe our chicken or brisket in.
Let's do rotisserie chicken cause it's closer to me
and my arms are short.
(laughter)
Send that for a bath.
And just let that thicken up for a couple of minutes here.
The oven's getting hot to 500 degrees, one rack above center
these pizzas cook in absolutely no time.
Now this is so clever my friend Emily taught me this,
instead of a rolling pin you use a bottle of wine
to roll out the dough so cute.
So lightly floured surface, I put a little bit of
cornmeal in the bottom our hot cast iron skillet.
Be very careful remember the pan's already hot
when you're putting this in,
and let the pizza dough creep up the side.
(audience applause)
All right so on top of the pizza dough,
I sprayed the pizza dough with a little bit of
olive oil cooking spray,
and I topped it with salt, pepper,
and crushed red pepper.
And now I'm moving around our barbecue chicken
or you can use barbecue brisket.
Build the whole thing in a cast iron skillet.
Then we hit it with a layer of pepper jack,
and a layer of mozzarella,
some roasted red peppers.
(audience applause)
500 degree oven till
it's brown and buttery
(audience cheering)