Barbecue Chicken Pizza {Copycat}

Homemade Barbecue Chicken Pizza - It might just remind you of your favorite restaurant barbecue chicken pizza. 

This barbecue chicken pizza is super easy to make. You can use store bought pizza dough or pizza dough that you can make and freeze to use for later.

If you're really in a hurry, you can skip making the pizza dough and use the pizza topping ingredients on toasted English Muffins, bagels, or your favorite flatbread for a quick and easy pizza. 

For this pizza, I used a Neapolitan style pizza dough that I had frozen after using some of it to make a clam pizza. The dough can be frozen for up to three months. Just thaw it in the refrigerator before making this pizza. 

What is Neapolitan-Style Pizza?

Neapolitan pizza, or pizza Napoletano, is one of those European protected designation of origin (PDO) names that isn't supposed to by used unless it actually is made in the region for which it is named. 

In fact, members of the Italian bread police have called me out for using PDO names for some of my breads. I'm sorry Italian bread police! 

Real Neapolitan pizza is made with Italian tomatoes from a specific region, as well as mozzarella cheese that comes from Italian water buffalo. 

Neapolitan-style pizza dough is made from strong wheat (in this case, bread flour), is very high hydration, and is stretched super thin before topping. Next, it is baked in a very hot oven, often wood-fired, and is ready in minutes. 

How to assemble a Neapolitan-Style Pizza:

If you're a pizza shaping expert, you will be able to stretch the dough out over a semolina sprinkled pizza peel, top it, and slide it onto your hot baking stone without a hitch. 

This is not me. I've tried, and have ended up with amoebe-shaped pizzas, or even worse, pizzas that stick to my pizza peel and end up having to be scraped onto the stone. 

Instead, I stretch the dough out onto a lightly oiled piece of parchment paper and then add the toppings. I use the pizza peel to slide the dough, along with the parchment, onto the baking stone. If you want, you can remove the parchment after about 5 minutes of baking. Either way, I still am very happy with the crispy dough. 

Copycat California Pizza Kitchen Barbecue Chicken Pizza:

This pizza is really easy to make. For one thing, the sauce is bottled barbecue sauce. The cheeses include smoked Gouda and mozzarella. 

First you bake chicken breasts in barbecue sauce. Next you spread the shaped dough with some more barbecue sauce and top it with the chicken, cheeses, and thinly sliced red onions. When the pizza is done, you sprinkle it with chopped cilantro and serve.

You can use my recipe for frozen pizza dough (in the recipe) if you like or just use store bought pizza dough. Either way, this pizza is delicious.

This week, the From Our Dinner Table group is presenting quick and easy pizza recipes. I'm so excited to share all of the recipes with you:

• Air Fryer Pita Pizzas by Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks
• Barbecue Chicken Pizza by Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Chicken Taco French Bread Pizza by A Kitchen Hoor's Adventures
• Easy French Bread Pizzas by Family Around the Table
• Easy Semi-Homemade Greek Pizza from The Beard and the Baker
• Easy Tortilla Pizza by The Freshman Cook
• Pizza Dough from Sour Dough Discard by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Pre-Baked Pizza Crust by Art of Natural Living
• Vegetable Naan Pizza by That Recipe

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Barbecue Chicken Pizza {Copycat California Pizza Kitchen Recipe}

Yield: 2 servings

Author: Karen Kerr

Homemade Barbecue Chicken Pizza - It might just remind you of your favorite restaurant barbecue chicken pizza.

ingredients:

For the Dough (Makes 3 pizza dough balls, you will only need one)

• 5 cups (22 1/2 ounces) unbleached bread flour (preferably King Arthur Flour)
• 1 tablespoon honey
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon instant yeast
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 3/4 cup plus one tablespoon room-temperature water

For the Pizza

• 1 dough ball from the Neapolitan-style pizza dough
• 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
• 1/3 cup of your favorite bottled dark barbecue sauce
• 8 ounces skinless boneless chicken breast meat
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1/2 cup (2 ounces) grated smoked Gouda cheese
• 1/2 cup (2 ounces) grated mozzarella cheese
• 1/2 small red onion, halved and thinly sliced
• Fresh cilantro, for garnishing

instructions:

How to cook Barbecue Chicken Pizza {Copycat California Pizza Kitchen Recipe}

To Make the Dough

1. Mix all of the dough ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer with the dough hook until you have a shaggy dough, about 4 minutes. Let rest for 5 minutes. Mix again on medium-low for another two minutes. 
2. Divide the dough into 3 pieces and form each into a ball. Brush each ball with olive oil. Place each ball into a zip-log bag that has been sprayed with spray oil, and let rest at room temperature for 15 minutes. 
3. Refrigerate overnight to use the next day, or freeze to use within 3 months. 
4. Thaw the dough in the refrigerator the day before assembling the pizza. 
5. The day you are making the pizza, remove the thawed dough from the refrigerator about 2 hours before shaping and topping. 

To Assemble and Bake the Pizza

1. Place a baking stone on the middle rack of the oven and heat the oven to 450 degrees F for at least 30 minutes.
2. Cut the chicken into 1/2 inch cubes and toss with 1 teaspoon of olive oil and 2 teaspoons of the barbecue sauce, salt, and pepper. Wrap in foil and bake for 20 minutes. 
3. Lay parchment paper over a pizza peel and lightly brush it with olive oil. Stretch the dough ball into a 10-inch round on the parchment paper. 
4. Brush the dough with the remaining barbecue sauce, leaving a 3/4 inch border. Top with the cooked chicken, cheeses, and red onion slices. 
5. Slide the pizza onto the baking stone and bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the crust is golden and the cheese is bubbly. 
6. Garnish with the cilantro. 

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The dough recipe was adapted from American Pie by Peter Reinhart.

In this book, Peter Reinhart follows the origins of pizza from Italy to the United States. The book is filled with stories of the history of pizza in the U.S.