Chicken Parmesan Pizza

For this recipe, actually use marinara sauce instead of pizza sauce - it really makes it taste like chicken Parmesan in pizza form! I made the dough more delicious by adding garlic and oregano to it. Enjoy this with a tossed green salad.

Ingredients

Yields 2 servings

1 batch pizza dough (I used the recipe on the back of the Fleischmanns Pizza Crust yeast bottle)
3 cloves garlic, crushed
1 tbsp Italian seasoning
1 tbsp dried oregano
Salt and pepper to taste
3/4 cup marinara sauce
2 chicken breasts, diced
handful of grape tomatoes, sliced
1 cup mozzarella, shredded
1/2 cup Parmesan, shredded
small bunch fresh basil leaves, chiffonade

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400 F.
2. Make your pizza dough. Add to the dough 2 crushed garlic cloves and oregano while you are kneading it.
3. Dice chicken breasts. Heat up a medium sized frying pan on medium heat, drizzle with olive oil. Add chicken and 1 crushed garlic clove to the pan.
4. Season chicken with Italian seasoning, salt and pepper, and saute until cooked through and golden brown.
5. Set chicken aside while you prep your pizza toppings like sliced the tomatoes, chiffonade the basil, grate your cheese.
6. Roll out pizza dough and place it preferably on a pizza stone, or on a cookie sheet. Top with marinara sauce, chicken, both cheeses, and tomatoes.
7. Bake pizza for about 20 minutes, until the crust is golden and the cheese bubbly. Once you take the pizza out of the oven, top with basil. Wait about 3-5 minutes for the cheese to set before slicing. If you slice the pizza when the cheese is too hot, it will just slide off the pizza and make you sad.
8. Serve with beer - Moretti is a nice compliment!

Note - I have made the Fleishmanns Pizza Crust recipe with whole wheat flour before and it tasted good but did not rise very well. For this recipe I used white flour and it was perfect pizza crust.