Chicken Parm Pizza
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Our chicken parm pizza recipe transforms the classic Italian pasta dinner into your favorite handheld treat for the ultimate homemade pizza night!
Have you ever gone to an Italian restaurant and had a hard time deciding between pizza, pasta, or even chicken parm? I know I have. This chicken parm pizza is the best of both worlds. While there isn’t any pasta on this pizza, it does transform a classic Italian fork-and-knife dinner into one of our favorite handheld treats.
This recipe is perfect for a Friday night dinner, movie nights, or casual date nights. We absolutely love the combination of super crispy chicken on a thin crust pizza dough with our easy pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, and plenty of parmesan!
What This Recipe Entails
This pizza requires a bit of prep work – you’ll have to make pan-fried chicken cutlets first – but it’s absolutely worth the effort. And it’ll still only take about 45 minutes total, which isn’t too bad for a restaurant style pie at home.
- Prep time: 15 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
Chicken Parm Pizza Toppings
The toppings for our chicken parm pizza are surprisingly simple! This recipe is really not much different from a classic cheese pizza, with the addition of some crispy breaded chicken. Here’s everything we use:
- Dough – Any standard pizza dough will work for this recipe. We like to make ours from scratch using the same day pizza dough recipe from Ken Forkish’s Flour Water Salt Yeast cookbook. But you can also use store bought!
- Sauce – Our homemade pizza sauce, a simple marinara-inspired tomato sauce. Alternatively you can use your favorite pizza sauce or marinara.
- Cheese – A blend of shredded mozzarella and parmesan.
- Chicken – Crispy breaded chicken cutlets, sliced into thin strips.
How To Make Chicken Parm Pizza
- Make the pizza sauce. If you are making your own sauce instead of using something store-bought, make it first. This way you can let it simmer while you tackle the other steps. Here is a guide for how to make pizza sauce at home.
- Prepare the crispy chicken. Pound the chicken to get it thin and then coat it in flour, egg, then breadcrumbs. Pan-fry in hot oil until golden brown and crispy on both sides, then let it drain on paper towels before slicing into thin strips.
- Assemble the pizza. Stretch the dough. Top with sauce, cheese, and the sliced crispy chicken. Finish off with another sprinkling of parmesan cheese.
- Bake. Bake until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melty.
- Enjoy!
Try the recipe for yourself and experience a classic Italian chicken parm dinner in the form of pizza! Let us know what you think of this fun pizza combo by commenting, rating, and sharing below!
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Chicken Parm Pizza
Equipment
- Meat tenderizer optional
Ingredients
Crispy Chicken Cutlets
- ⅓ pound chicken tenderloin or breast pounded to quarter-inch thickness
- ⅓ cup flour
- 1 large egg well beaten
- ⅓ cup Italian seasoned breadcrumbs
- Vegetable oil for frying
Chicken Parm Pizza
- 425 grams pizza dough Roman-style, or store-bought
- ½ cup pizza sauce
- 1¼ cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- ½ cup shredded parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons shredded parmesan cheese for finishing
Instructions
Crispy Chicken Cutlets
- Set up a station for breading the chicken with three separate containers: one for the beaten eggs, one for the breadcrumbs, and one for the flour. Then, whisk the chipotle powder, salt, and black pepper into the flour until evenly combined.
- Coat the chicken in flour, egg, then breadcrumbs. Make sure to coat the chicken thoroughly in each, and let any excess egg drip off the chicken before transferring it to the breadcrumbs.
- Heat a quarter inch of oil in a cast iron or other heavy bottomed pan over medium-high heat.Once hot, fry the chicken until it's golden brown on both sides, about 2 to 3 minutes per side. Transfer the cooked chicken to a cutting board to rest. Cut into half inch strips before putting on the pizza.
Chicken Parm Pizza
- Preheat the oven to 550 degrees.
- Lightly flour a 14-inch pizza pan and your hands. Working on the pan, stretch the pizza dough into a large circle roughly the size of the pan, gently pushing and pulling from the center outwards.
- Evenly spread the pizza sauce onto the dough, leaving about a quarter-inch of space around the edge for the crust.
- In a small bowl, combine shredded mozzarella and 1/2 cup shredded parmesan cheese. Gently toss with your hands, then sprinkle over the pizza.
- Top the pizza with the sliced chicken cutlets, then sprinkle the remaining 2 tablespoons shredded parmesan cheese over the chicken.
- Bake for 7 to 9 minutes, or until crust is crisped and cheese is bubbly and golden brown.
- Let pizza cool for at least 2 minutes before transferring to a large cutting board. Slice and serve immediately.
Notes
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