What happens when your significant other wants chicken parmesan, but you're in the mood for pizza? You make a Chicken Parmesan Pizza!! Naturally!
We're back for PIZZA NIGHT! It's the most important night of the week if you ask me! And Chicken Parmesan Pizza is my current obsession. Just imagine freshly made pizza dough, piled high with fresh mozzarella, juicy tomatoes, and breaded chicken and sprinkled with a bit of oregano and then dusted with salt and pepper. Holy moly. Good luck ever getting an invite over to my house when I make this, it's basically too good to share.
Chicken Parmesan was the first recipe I ever learned to cook. I would make it on a weekly basis for my tennis team in college and twice a week when Thomas and I were dating. It was my one hit wonder and it's still a favorite to this day. I've taken those classic flavors and turned them into chicken parm meatballs, chicken and mushroom parmesan pasta and chicken parm panini's! Plus I've taken it over to the vegetarian side of things for a stacked eggplant parm number! I can't be stopped. And today it's all about a chicken parmesan pizza. You'll be into it, I promise!
Chicken Parmesan Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 pound pizza dough
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup panko bread crumbs
- 4 tablespoons shredded parmesan cheese
- 1 chicken breast pounded into a ½ inch thickness
- 1 cup store bought pizza sauce
- 1 pound fresh mozzarella thinly sliced
- ½ cup cherry tomatoes halved
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- Fresh basil
- salt and pepper and red pepper flakes to taste
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 475 degrees F. Place the pizza dough on a oiled baking sheet and let rest for at least 30 minutes at room temperature.
- Whisk the eggs together in a medium sized bowl and set aside.
- Combine the panko breadcrumbs and shredded parmesan cheese in another bowl and set aside.
- Dip the piece of chicken into the egg mixture until it is fully coated. Then dip it in the bread crumb mixture and make sure the bread crumbs adhere to the entire chicken breast. Place the chicken breast in a medium skillet over medium high heat with a few tablespoons of olive oil and cook for 4-5 minutes on each side until golden brown Remove the chicken and let rest on a paper towel to absorb any excess oil. Once cool, then slice into thin strips and set aside.
- Meanwhile, roll the pizza dough out into 2 rounds. Evenly spread the pizza sauce on the dough and top with sliced chicken, cheese and tomatoes, then sprinkle with oregano and salt and pepper.
- Transfer the pizzas into the oven and cook for 10-12 minutes until the cheese begins to bubble and turn golden brown. Remove the pizza from the oven, garnish with basil then slice and serve.
Carb-free diets are way overrated. It's far more important for you to be living it up in these last weeks before the wedding! Enjoy!
Pizza and pasta are the reasons that I will NEVER be on a No Carb diet! This pizza looks really yummy, you didn't stand a chance of staying on the diet.
Damn. This looks so tasty! I am so making this soon.
YUMMY!!!
you should always eat pizza! you are SO right!! lol
Looks delicious Gabby!
i'm gonna yolo this pizza like you wouldn't believe!!!!!!!!!
Just say no to no carbs, lady! And, heck, this is definitely the way to do that!
This sounds delicious! I NEED pizza at least once a week. And yippee we now have a Trader Joe's here to get the right dough.
Though I cannot believe that "the best pizza in the world" wouldn't have a softly-fried egg on it, this does look pretty close!
This would be Ah-mazing on the barbecue tonight!
Seriously my two favorite foods in the whole world combined into one! How can this not be the most amazing pizza ever?! I do not blame you for one second for breaking your pre-wedding diet for this!
I'm seriously dying. Love this!!
This looks delicious. My husband used to order chicken parm pizza but it's never as good as homemade.
Yumm this looks awesome!! I always keep Trader Joe's pizza crust in my freezer and then take it out in the morning. It's just so darn easy!! I never thought of putting chicken parm on top of it though. It sounds amazingggg!!
I'm so glad you went there!