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Chicken Pizza

🇮🇹 Italian

Wood-oven style pizza crowned with chicken over blistered, chewy dough. 58 minutes of mostly hands-off cooking.

Prep 18 min Cook 40 min Serves 4 Hard

Ingredients

  • Chicken500 g, thighs
  • Heavy Cream200 ml
  • Saltto taste
  • Onion1, sliced into rings
  • Pizza Dough500 g
  • Mozzarella Cheese200 g
  • Olive Oil1 tbsp, for the dish
  • Dried Oregano1 tsp
  • Cheese100 g, grated

Optional extras

  • Fresh Basilhandful, to finish

Instructions

  1. 1

    Heat the oven as hot as it will go (at least 240°C) with the tray or stone pre-heating for half an hour — patience here is the whole recipe.

  2. 2

    Press the dough out gently from the middle outwards, letting gravity help, until thin in the centre with a puffy border.

  3. 3

    Spoon the sauce over thinly, then distribute the Chicken and Onion so every slice gets its fair share.

  4. 4

    Top with cheese pulled into small pieces rather than grated — it melts into pools instead of a sheet.

  5. 5

    Bake 7-9 minutes, rotating once, until the crust is leopard-spotted and the cheese is bubbling in earnest.

  6. 6

    Rest for one minute, shower with Heavy Cream, cut with scissors or a wheel, and eat at once — pizza waits for no one.

Chef's tip

Every oven runs hot or cold; start checking 5 minutes early.

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