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Chicken Parm Pizza

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Our chicken parm pizza recipe transforms the classic Italian pasta dinner into our favorite handheld treat for the ultimate homemade pizza night! We love making this pizza for a fun date night at home with a movie and some hot chocolate dip.

A chicken parm pizza made with homemade dough, tomato sauce, mozzarella, parmesan, and slices of crispy chicken.

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 To Expect

  • Great for: A fun, takeout-style dinner at home. Perfect for Friday pizza and a movie.
  • Ready in: 45 minutes
  • Serves: 2 to 3 people. Alex and I normally eat the whole pizza together.
  • Flavor profile: A bold savory tomato sauce highlights the crispy pan fried, breaded chicken, that’s finished with a little salty parmesan.
  • How to make it: Prep the chicken cutlets by pounding them thin, dredging, and then pan fry them until crispy. Stretch the dough, top with sauce, cheese, sliced chicken cutlets, and a sprinkle of freshly grated parmesan. Bake until the crust is browned and the cheese is bubbly. Slice and serve.

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Why We Love This Recipe

Crispy chicken is probably one of the most underrated pizza toppings. And what better way to feature that than in a chicken parm style pizza? I get savory cheese, crispy fried chicken, a homemade tomato sauce, and bubbly pizza dough in every single bite. I couldn’t be happier.

– Alex

Chicken Parmesan Pizza Toppings

  • 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 – We prefer using our homemade garlic and basil pizza sauce, a simple marinara-inspired tomato sauce, for this recipe. 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. Breaded chicken is one of the most underrated pizza toppings, and is by far the best way to enjoy chicken on pizza.

How To Make Chicken Parm Pizza

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Assemble the pizza. Stretch the dough. Top with sauce, cheese, and the sliced crispy chicken. Finish off with another sprinkling of parmesan cheese. 
  4. Bake. Bake until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melty.
  5. 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!

Expert Tips

  • Baking temperature and time – These will vary based on the type of pizza dough you’re using. If using store bought, check the package instructions for guidance. If making dough from scratch, reference the dough recipe for baking temperatures and times.
  • Chicken cutlets – Here’s a trick for pounding chicken – put it on a cutting board, then lay a sheet of parchment paper on top of the chicken. This way you won’t get raw chicken all over your meat tenderizer. If you don’t have a tenderizer, a skillet actually works great for this! This step is to make sure the chicken has a consistent thickness so it cooks evenly.
  • Homemade pizza dough – We love making homemade pizza dough, it’s probably one of our favorite things to make from scratch. If you don’t know where to start but want to learn, Mastering Pizza and Flour Water Salt Yeast are both great cookbooks for learning. Our go-to pizza dough for this recipe is the same-day straight pizza dough recipe found on page 218 of Flour Water Salt Yeast.
  • Homemade pizza sauce – If you love having homemade sauce but don’t want to have to make it every time you want pizza, make a big batch and freeze it. We use the Souper Cubes half cup tray to portion out the perfect amount of sauce for a pizza. That way all we have to do is defrost what we need and we’re ready to make pizza any time!
A slice of chicken parm pizza being held over the pizza. Made with slices of crispy chicken cutlets, tomato sauce, mozzarella, and parmesan.

Serving Suggestions

We always love adding a fun side to enjoy with our homemade pizzas. Here are some of our favorite ideas:

No matter how you choose to enjoy this pizza, we know that you’ll love every single bite! Let us know what you think by rating, commenting, and sharing below!

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We hope you enjoy this recipe! When you try it out, please leave a review and a star rating in the comments below. Happy cooking! – Nicole and Alex

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Chicken Parm Pizza

Nicole & Alex Langdon
Our chicken parm pizza recipe transforms the classic Italian pasta dinner into our favorite handheld treat for the ultimate homemade pizza night! We love making this pizza for a fun date night at home with a movie and some hot chocolate dip.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine American, Italian
Servings 6 slices
Calories 398 kcal

Equipment

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

  • 1 pound 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.
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Notes

Pizza 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!
Pizza sauce: We use our own recipe for pizza sauce – it’s so delicious and super easy. We recommend trying the recipe here since it gives this pizza the perfect chicken parm flavor.
Pounding the chicken: Here’s a trick for pounding chicken – put it on a cutting board, then lay a sheet of parchment paper on top of the chicken. This way you won’t get raw chicken all over your meat tenderizer. If you don’t have a tenderizer, a skillet actually works great for this! This step is to make sure the chicken has a consistent thickness so it cooks evenly.
Baking the pizza: Bake the pizza on the middle rack of your oven! This will help it cook evenly. If you’re making more than one pizza, simply rotate the pizzas halfway through cooking (switch the one on the top rack to the bottom rack, and vice versa). Pizza can also be finicky and cooks at different rates depending on the hydration level of your dough, your oven’s actual temperature, and other factors. We recommend keeping an eye on your pizza as it cooks and using visual cues to tell when it’s done – use our time estimates as a rough guide.

Nutrition

Serving: 1sliceCalories: 398kcalCarbohydrates: 49gProtein: 23gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 72mgSodium: 1057mgPotassium: 239mgFiber: 2gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 377IUVitamin C: 3mgCalcium: 263mgIron: 3mg
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90% of Nicole’s thoughts are about food. She’s had a passion for cooking (and eating) for as long as she can remember! Growing up, she started cooking with her mom at a young age, learned family recipes from her Italian grandmother, took every opportunity to make cookies (so many bake sales), and always loved going out to restaurants to try new foods.

Nicole currently works part-time as a marketing professional for OmieLife while also working nonstop on The Candid Cooks. As a former mechanical engineer, Nicole has consistently found herself at the intersection of creativity and logical reasoning. She credits not only her passion for photography, design, and writing, but also her problem-solving nature and desire to learn, as the foundation on which The Candid Cooks was built.

Nicole’s hobbies include anything that gets her moving - mainly hiking, skiing, ice skating, and dancing - as well as reading fantasy novels and scrapbooking. Her favorite food is a big plate of nachos, as long as they’re cheesy enough!

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  1. 5 stars
    The crispy chicken on this pizza is SO good and is definitely the star of the show. That plus the parmesan and fluffy crust make this a favorite of mine.

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