Homemade barbecue chicken pizza on an easy fresh pizza dough crust takes only a few minutes to prepare with these shortcuts. Use your favorite storebought BBQ sauce and seasoned chicken tenderloins for the most delicious pizza this Friday night.
PREP TIME 10 minutesminutes
COOK TIME 12 minutesminutes
TOTAL TIME 22 minutesminutes
YIELD 4servings
Ingredients
1batch of homemade pizza doughSee Notes
3/4cupof your favorite BBQ sauce
3slicesprovolone cheese
1 - 2cupsshredded cheddar jack cheese
1/4cupthinly sliced red onion
1cupchopped cooked chicken
Handful of fresh cilantrochopped
Instructions
Place a pizza stone on the center rack of your oven and preheat it to 450°F for at least 30 min.
Meanwhile, prepare the pizza. Roll your pizza dough out to a 12-inch circle and transfer it to a piece of parchment paper.
Brush a tablespoon of olive oil around the center edge of the dough to help the crust brown.
Spread the BBQ sauce over the middle of the pizza.
Rip the provolone cheese into small portions and scatter them over the top of the pizza.
Sprinkle half the shredded cheese over the top and sprinkle the red onions evenly over the top.
Scatter the chicken chunks over the top and then cover with the remaining shredded cheese.
Slide the pizza on the parchment onto a metal baking pan. Use the pan to transfer the pizza to the hot stone in the oven. Carefully slide the parchment onto the stone directly and remove the metal pan.
Bake the pizza for 12 minutes or until the crust is golden brown, the cheese has melted and the pizza is nice and bubbling.
Carefully tug on the parchment paper to slide the pizza off the stone and onto the metal pan for bringing the pizza out of the oven. Let cool briefly, slice and serve warm.
Recipe Notes
Pizza Crust Notes:
I highly recommend making homemade pizza dough for this recipe. It takes just minutes in a bread machine and makes a world of difference in the quality of the final pizza.However, you can substitute a fresh pizza dough or a pre-made pizza crust from your local grocery if you prefer.
Chicken Notes:
You can use whatever leftover cooked chicken you have on hand for this recipe. You could also use shredded rotisserie chicken but I highly recommend this super-quick healthy chicken tenderloin air fryer recipe.