Recipe Share: Garlic Chicken Pizza.

I made a garlic, chicken pizza tonight that was amazing. Obviously we’re 80 year olds since it’s only 6 o’clock and we’ve had time to cook, eat, and blog about it. Once again the recipe is courtesy of the great cooking, social networking site GroupRecipes.com. I modified it a bit to our taste. It gets a 5 out of 5. I’m with the Tall Skinny Kiwi though, I’d die for a brick oven.

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons softened butter
2 cloves minced garlic
2 tbspns chopped green onion
1 skinless boneless chicken breast half
1/2 tspn dried basil
1/2 cup chopped cilantro (a 1/2 cup of cilantro leaves, finely chopped)
1/4 cup grated Parmesan
2 diced roma plum tomatoes
1 cup mixed cheese
1 8oz can of tomato sauce
1 10 oz can refrigerated pizza crust dough (we used a pre-made crust from Whole Foods)

Directions:
1. Put your chicken breast in a saucepan with enough water to submerge it. Bring the water to a boil and cook until the chicken is no longer pink (and the juices are clear…approximately 20 minutes). Drain the chicken then cut it into medium-sized strips.
2. Preheat your oven to 350 F (in hindsight I might push it to 400 F).
3. Melt the butter, garlic, basil, cilantro, sauce, and onion in a skillet over medium heat. Pour this sauce into a dish and refrigerate it until it sets.
4. Now roll out your pizza dough nice and flat. Place it onto a baking sheet and evenly spread your herb butter sauce over the surface (the back of a spoon works nicely). Spread the chicken strips over the pizza then sprinkle with cheese. And finally finish the toppings off with slices of tomatoes, cilantro and Parmesan.
5. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes in the aforementioned preheated oven. The pizza crust will brown when it is finished. Let the pizza cool before slicing and serving.

And no recipe would be complete without pictures to verify it’s deliciousness (full set here).