Chicken Crust BBQ Pizza
Last night I decided to try a chicken crust BBQ pizza. As many people have pointed out, the crust is going to taste like chicken (no kidding), so toppings should be things that go with chicken. I immediately thought of BBQ chicken pizza and BH agreed to try it.
This came out remarkably well and we both enjoyed eating it. The crust recipe I used made 2 – 10 inch pizza crusts. So I made one into pizza, wrapped the other in plastic wrap, and stuck it in the fridge. I’ll make it into another pizza tomorrow. I suspect it would freeze and reheat just fine. After all, it’s cooked chicken! This recipe would also be easy to cut in half.
Both of these crusts are completely cooked. One is just a bit browner than the other.
Update: To make this from a pre-cooked crust, I took the refrigerated crust out, put it on a parchment covered baking sheet, and preheated the oven to 400. Once the oven was ready, I popped my crust in for 10 minutes, pulled it out, topped it, and baked another 7 minutes. It worked just fine that way.
I changed the recipe a little, using ground raw chicken as a start to the recipe and adding seasoning. Every else seems to be putting cooked chicken through a food processor, but getting raw ground chicken (or turkey) was a lot less work.
Update: I did make this a second time with ground turkey and it worked just as well. I have the second crust in the freezer so I can see how that turns out sometime later.
Most of the carbs come from the sweet BBQ sauce I used. This pizza is only 7 grams of carbs per serving without the BBQ sauce. You can reduce the carbs quite a bit by using a spicy sauce with no sugar (or very little).
Chicken Crust BBQ Pizza
Ingredients
Crusts
- 2 large eggs
- 1 pound raw ground chicken or turkey
- 1 cup (4 ounces) grated mozzarella cheese made with whole milk
- 1 teaspoon Morton Nature's Seasons Seasoning Blend
Toppings
- 4 slices of bacon, thick cut
- 1 small red onion (1 cup sliced)
- 8 ounces fresh mushrooms
- 1 can sliced black olives (2.25 ounce)
- 1/2 cup BBQ sauce
- 1 1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese (6 ounces)
- About 4 Tablespoons bacon fat (from cooking the bacon)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Put the eggs in a mixing bowl and beat to mix the whites and yolk. Add the rest of the ingredients and keep mixing until they are well blended. You should see the egg really incorporated into the chicken.
- Put parchment paper on 2 large baking sheets. Put half the chicken mix onto each sheet. Spread out into a thin 10 inch circle, but be sure there are no holes. Put the pans in the oven and bake for 20 minutes.
- While the crusts are baking, prepare the toppings. Cook the bacon over medium until crisp. Set on paper towel to drain. When cool, chop into small pieces.
- Peel and core the onion. Cut in half, and slice into thin slices. Saute the onion in the bacon grease until soft. Remove with slotted spoon onto paper towel to drain.
- Clean and slice the mushroom. Saute in the bacon grease until soft. Remove with slotted spoon onto paper towel to drain.
- Drain the can of olives.
- When the crusts are done, remove from the oven. Spread each crust with 1/4 cup BBQ sauce. Spread the onion, mushrooms, olives, and bacon evenly over each crust. Spread the cheddar cheese evenly over both pizzas.
- Return the pizzas to the oven and cook for 5 minutes or until the cheese is melted. Cut each pizza into 8 pieces to serve.
- These pizzas are thin and soft. The pieces can be picked up and eaten like a regular pizza. They are also easy to eat with a knife and fork.
Notes
If you just want one pizza, you can cut the whole recipe in half. Or you can make 2 crusts, use half the toppings on one, and refrigerate or freeze the other crust for later. The refrigerated crust should be used within 3 days.
Nutrition Facts
Chicken Crust BBQ Pizza
Serves: 4
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Amount Per Serving: 1/2 10 inch pizza
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| Calories | ||
| % Daily Value* | ||
| Total Fat 52 | 80% | |
| Saturated Fat | 0 | |
| Trans Fat | ||
| Cholesterol | 0 | |
| Sodium | 0 | |
| Total Carbohydrate 14 | 4.7% | |
| Dietary Fiber 1 | 4% | |
| Sugars | ||
| Protein 45 | ||
| Vitamin A | Vitamin C | |
| Calcium | Iron | |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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