Topping recipe

BBQ Chicken

Pizza BBQ sauce, Low-moisture whole-milk mozzarella, Smoked gouda, Cooked chicken, diced and tossed in BBQ sauce, Fresh cilantro, chopped. Scaled for 1 pie.

1 pieNew York14"Pizza BBQ sauce

Build each pie

After the dough is shaped

1pie

Pizza size

sauce

Pizza BBQ sauce

⅓ cup, generous90 g

Cheese

Low-moisture whole-milk mozzarella

about 4½ oz, grated (1¼ cups)130 g

Cheese

Smoked gouda

about 2 oz, grated (½ cup)60 g

Toppings

Cooked chicken, diced and tossed in BBQ sauceA spoonful of the sauce, set aside before you spread the rest

about 1 cup140 g

Red onion, thinly sliced

⅓ small onion40 g

Finishing

Fresh cilantro, chopped

3 Tbsp4 g

Make the sauce

Scaled for 1 pie · 1 batch · Sauce recipe →

Whisk everything together in a small saucepan and simmer over medium-low for 10 min, stirring often, until it's thick enough to coat the back of a spoon and hold. Let it cool before it goes on the dough. Keeps 2 weeks in the fridge.

Ketchup

1 cup240 g

Brown sugar

¼ cup, packed50 g

Cider vinegar

2 tbsp30 g

Molasses

1 tbsp20 g

Worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp15 g

Smoked paprika

1 tsp3 g

Garlic powder

½ tsp2 g

Onion powder

½ tsp2 g

Black pepper

½ tsp1 g

Fine sea salt

½ tsp2 g

Put it together

Once the sauce is made, for each pie

BeforeSpread the BBQ sauce thin over the dough and cover with both cheeses.
BeforeScatter the sauced chicken and red onion over the cheese.
AfterScatter the cilantro over the top.

Shopping list

For 1 pie

Ketchup240 g

Brown sugar50 g

Cider vinegar30 g

Molasses20 g

Worcestershire sauce15 g

Smoked paprika3 g

Garlic powder2 g

Onion powder2 g

Black pepper1 g

Fine sea salt2 g

Low-moisture whole-milk mozzarella130 g

Smoked gouda60 g

Cooked chicken, diced and tossed in BBQ sauce140 g

Red onion, thinly sliced40 g

Fresh cilantro, chopped4 g

Pair with

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