Chicken Pizzas

B and I tend to enjoy suppers where we can sample a lot of different foods. We like to have wine and cheese suppers with all kinds of cheeses, breads, olives, etc., and every once in a while for some sort of special event we’ll throw together a bunch of appetizers. For a Friday pizza night this week, we did something similar and had four different mini pizzas. It was so fun to taste them all! I split my pizza dough into four small pieces, and then I sauteed a chicken breast, sliced it up, and included it on each pizza. I happened to have a ton of cheese and other odds and ends in the fridge to use up, so I had some fun and made these pizzas all very different from one another. If you have some extra time and are looking for a fun meal, we really enjoyed doing this!  Rather than typing out a recipe for each pizza, I’ll just list the ingredients that I used. I just threw all of the pizzas into a 400 degree oven at the same time for about 12-15 minutes.

The above pizza was my favorite. I used fig preserves, goat cheese, sauteed chicken breast, Parmesan cheese, and black pepper as the toppings, and it was awesome! I don’t usually like sweet and savory combinations, but this one was so good! I really can’t explain how good it was. The sweet fig preserves paired so well with the goat cheese and the Parmesan, and the chicken and black pepper added a really great savory flavor. It all blended together perfectly and was so creamy and delicious!

This pizza had a great Italian flavor. I brushed the crust with extra virgin olive oil, then topped it with mozzerella, sauteed chicken breast, chopped basil, pine nuts, sundried tomatoes, and Parmesan. I love this particular combination of flavors and use it all of the time in pastas, stuffed chicken breasts, couscous, paninis, etc., so I knew that the ingredients would taste great on a pizza, too. I’ve never had pine nuts on a pizza before, and while B didn’t end up caring for them too much on the pizza, I thought that they added a nice buttery flavor.

This was a standard barbeque chicken pizza. Barbeque sauce, sliced onions, sauteed chicken breast, mozzerella, and cheddar. I love barbeque sauce as a pizza sauce, so I used a lot! This was one of B’s favorites, and I loved it too. I think that cilantro would go really great on this pizza, and I definitely would have thrown it on top if I would have had any in the fridge. We loved this as it was, though! Nice and smoky from the barbeque sauce.

I used jalapeno pesto that I had in the freezer as a sauce for this pizza, and then I topped it with sauteed chicken breast, mozzerella, and roasted red peppers. B and I both loved it, and it was my favorite pizza of the night aside from the fig and goat cheese pizza. It had a nice spicy flavor from the jalapeno pesto and the peppers, but it wasn’t anywhere near too spicy. It just had a perfect little kick, almost with a little Mexican flavor. I think that this pizza would be great on the grill in the summer!