Chicken Alfredo Pizza
This is a delicately flavored cheese and meat pizza with fresh ingredients that make it both satisfying and nutritious. There is enough preparation activity in this meal to occupy two people for a couple of hours. Cooking can be a social occasion as well as a task.
Pizza dough (See below)
Alfredo sauce:
¼ lb butter
2 cups milk
1/3 cup flour
¾ cup grated Romano or Parmesan cheese
Toppings:
1 pound cooked white meat chicken or turkey
chili powder
A – 1 sauce
10 - 12 sliced mushrooms
2 large ripe tomatoes
one half small yellow onion, sliced thin
½ pound grated mozzarella cheese
While the dough is rising, sauté the chicken, make the Alfredo sauce, and prepare the other toppings.
Spicy Chicken: 1 pound chopped white meat chicken or turkey
salt
pepper
3 tablespoons chili powder
2 tablespoons A – 1 or other favorite meat sauce
3 tablespoons olive oil
Put chicken, oil and spices in skillet and sauté for approximately 10 minutes. Set aside.
Alfredo sauce: 1. Melt butter in medium size sauce pan.
2. Pull from heat and add 1 cup flour. Stir well.
3. Pour in 2 cups whole milk while stirring.
4. Put back on low heat and stir until smooth.
5. Add grated Parmesan or Romano
Set aside.
Slice tomatoes, slice mushrooms, grate mozzarella, slice onion.
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
1. When the dough has doubled in size, remove from bowl, knead gently, and shape into two balls of dough. Cover and let the dough rest for 10 – 15 minutes.
Press each ball of dough onto a pizza stone.
2. Ladle about ¾ cup of sauce on each crust.
Layer each of the toppings on both pizzas
Mozzarella
Spicy chicken
Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Onions
Bake for ½ hour at 375.
This recipe makes two medium pizzas.
DOUGH ingredients: 3 cups flour, 1 cup water, 1 ½ teaspoon yeast, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, oil to coat the bowl
1. Warm the water to 45 C or 110 F – warm but not hot. Put in the yeast and sugar. Let the yeast work for 10 – 15 minutes.
2. Pour the yeast mixture in a glass bowl. Add 3 cups of flour and 1 teaspoon salt.
3. Mix the flour and liquid; then turn the dough out onto a floured cloth and knead until smooth. Add flour if necessary.
4. Generously oil a second glass bowl; place the dough in top side down. Turn so oiled side is up, cover with a clean cloth and set in a warm place* to rise for 1 – 1 ½ hours.
*(Turn the oven on “warm” for 2 or 3 minutes. Turn the oven off and open door for about 1 minute to let some of the heat escape, place the covered bread dough inside, and close the door.)
This is a delicately flavored cheese and meat pizza with fresh ingredients that make it both satisfying and nutritious. There is enough preparation activity in this meal to occupy two people for a couple of hours. Cooking can be a social occasion as well as a task.
Pizza dough (See below)
Alfredo sauce:
¼ lb butter
2 cups milk
1/3 cup flour
¾ cup grated Romano or Parmesan cheese
Toppings:
1 pound cooked white meat chicken or turkey
chili powder
A – 1 sauce
10 - 12 sliced mushrooms
2 large ripe tomatoes
one half small yellow onion, sliced thin
½ pound grated mozzarella cheese
While the dough is rising, sauté the chicken, make the Alfredo sauce, and prepare the other toppings.
Spicy Chicken: 1 pound chopped white meat chicken or turkey
salt
pepper
3 tablespoons chili powder
2 tablespoons A – 1 or other favorite meat sauce
3 tablespoons olive oil
Put chicken, oil and spices in skillet and sauté for approximately 10 minutes. Set aside.
Alfredo sauce: 1. Melt butter in medium size sauce pan.
2. Pull from heat and add 1 cup flour. Stir well.
3. Pour in 2 cups whole milk while stirring.
4. Put back on low heat and stir until smooth.
5. Add grated Parmesan or Romano
Set aside.
Slice tomatoes, slice mushrooms, grate mozzarella, slice onion.
PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
1. When the dough has doubled in size, remove from bowl, knead gently, and shape into two balls of dough. Cover and let the dough rest for 10 – 15 minutes.
Press each ball of dough onto a pizza stone.
2. Ladle about ¾ cup of sauce on each crust.
Layer each of the toppings on both pizzas
Mozzarella
Spicy chicken
Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Onions
Bake for ½ hour at 375.
This recipe makes two medium pizzas.
DOUGH ingredients: 3 cups flour, 1 cup water, 1 ½ teaspoon yeast, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 tablespoons sugar, oil to coat the bowl
1. Warm the water to 45 C or 110 F – warm but not hot. Put in the yeast and sugar. Let the yeast work for 10 – 15 minutes.
2. Pour the yeast mixture in a glass bowl. Add 3 cups of flour and 1 teaspoon salt.
3. Mix the flour and liquid; then turn the dough out onto a floured cloth and knead until smooth. Add flour if necessary.
4. Generously oil a second glass bowl; place the dough in top side down. Turn so oiled side is up, cover with a clean cloth and set in a warm place* to rise for 1 – 1 ½ hours.
*(Turn the oven on “warm” for 2 or 3 minutes. Turn the oven off and open door for about 1 minute to let some of the heat escape, place the covered bread dough inside, and close the door.)
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