California Pizza Kitchen Original BBQ Pizza Recipe

California Pizza Kitchen Original BBQ Pizza Recipe

Ingredients:

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp. active dry yeast
1 cup warm water
2 cups Gouda cheese
10 ozs. chicken breast – boned and skinned
2 tbsp. barbecue sauce
1 tbsp. honey
1 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. cilantro
1 tbsp. olive oil
1/2 cup barbecue sauce
1/4 small red onion – sliced into rings

Directions:

For pizza dough:

Dissolve honey in warm water inside a glass bowl. Sprinkle yeast on water then mix it until yeast dissolves. Allow yeast mix to rest for about 5 mins. or until foam layer appears on its surface.

Combine salt and flour in another bowl. Make small well right in the middle of your flour mix then add in yeast and olive oil. Mix flour to the wet ingredients just until the all-purpose flour has incorporated well.

When dough becomes quite dry it might be good to add some water. Lightly dust some flour on any flat surface and place your dough on it and start to knead dough about 15 mins. until it’s elastic and smooth.

Shape your dough to a ball then place inside an oiled glass bowl. Get a damp towel then cover it for about half an hour then let it rise in any dry warm area and wait until dough doubles in size.

With pizza stones in your oven, start the preheating at 500′F, 1 hour prior to baking them.

For preparing chicken:

Heat your oil in frying pan on medium high flame. Put the pieces of your chicken. Saut� until it’s cooked for about 6 mins. then chill. Cover your chickens with about 2 tbsp. of BBQ sauce. Then set it aside inside the fridge.

To assemble Pizza:

Divide your dough in four equal parts and punch them down. Roll your dough to 6 to 8 inch flat circles. Evenly spread about 1/4 cup BBQ sauce on crust.

Layer half of cheese on sauce and distribute well half of cooked chicken on cheese. Arrange half your onion rings atop the pieces of chicken then place pizza inside oven (atop pizza stones) and bake it until the crust has crisped and Gouda cheese has bubbled for about 8 to 10 mins.

Take pizzas out of oven then sprinkle individual pizzas with half of cilantro.