Chicken Bacon Pizza

So many think that making pizza at home has to be a big undertaking. Even making the dough from scratch, still not that rough. It just takes a little bit of planning ahead (need about an hour for the dough to rise). But it’s even easier if you use store-bought par-baked pizza crusts. Even when you love pizza as much as I do, you don’t want the regular red sauce and pepperoni pizza every time. This Chicken Bacon Pizza is a great change of pace with a simple white sauce and easy toppings.

For this recipe I like to use chicken deli meat because it makes things so much easier. I have a preference to the peppered chicken meat, but you can use any sort of chicken deli meat. I give it a rough chop just so you don’t get too big of pieces that would make eating the slice too difficult. The same goes for the spinach. Since you are not cooking the spinach at all prior to putting it on the pizza, you don’t want to have it in whole leaves on the pizza.

The sauce is super simple to make – very similar to a cheese sauce for macaroni and cheese or even alfredo. This sauce does not have quite as much cheese as those sauces, but they come together much the same way. You do not want the sauce to be too cheesy for this particular application as it’s meant to be a true pizza sauce and not just another layer of cheese.

For this recipe I like to use a round pizza pan, as it gives for a slightly thicker crust which really works with these toppings. It gives for a fantastic bite. I also suggest using pizza scissors instead of a pizza wheel to cut. Again the type of toppings, its better to cut the pizza rather than slice it, so as to not pull the toppings off.

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Chicken Bacon Pizza

A delicious white sauce on a homemade pizza dough with chicken, bacon and spinach.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American, Italian

Keyword bacon, Cheesy Chicken, Chicken Dishes, Chicken Recipes, dough, homemade pizza, pizza, pizza dough, spinach, white sauce

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 35 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Ingredients

• 2 Pizza Crusts store-bought or homemade (see recipe below)
• ½ lb Chicken Deli Meat rough chopped
• ½ lb Bacon cut in ½inch pieces
• 3 cups Mozzarella Cheese shredded
• 2 cups Spinach rough chopped

For the White Sauce

• 4 tbsp Butter
• 1 tsp Garlic Powder
• 1 tsp Onion Powder
• 4 tbsp Flour
• 3 cups Milk
• 1 tsp Basil
• 1 tsp Oregano
• 1 cup Parmesan Cheese grated

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Instructions

• Prepare pizza crusts as per the recipe below (or the packaging, if you are using store bought). Preheat oven to 425deg.
• In a frying pan over medium high heat, add bacon. Cook until crispy and remove to a paper towel covered plate.
• In a sauce pan over medium-high heat, add butter, garlic powder and onion powder. Once melted, whisk in flour. Let cook for three minutes then whisk in milk. Let cook for four minutes then add basil and oregano. Lastly add parmesan cheese and whisk until fully incorporated. Reduce heat to medium-low.
• To Build a Pizza – spread half of white sauce over crust. Top with one cup of mozzarella, half of chicken, half of bacon and half of spinach. Sprinkle with half cup of mozzarella. Repeat with second pizza. Put into oven for 15 minutes.
• Let rest 5 minutes before slicing.