Chicken Basil Pizza

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    I still have a few leaves of basil left on my puny lit­tle basil plant, which is just as well. When I was giv­ing this recipe for what to do with fresh basil, I for­got my other favorite — a quick lit­tle pizza with a lot of good stuff in it.


    It’s just some­thing I came up with when I had one of those Boboli pizza crusts to work with and didn’t have any mari­nara sauce handy. These are the direc­tions to make one indi­vid­ual sized pizza — for mul­ti­ples or a big­ger pizza, you’d have to scale it up.

    Chicken Basil Pizza

    Ingre­di­ents:

    • One 8″ pre-prepared pizza crust (like Boboli)
    • 1/2 cup of white meat chicken, cooked
    • Ranch dress­ing
    • 6–8 leaves of fresh basil
    • Ital­ian seasoning
    • 3/4 cup of Ital­ian mix grated cheese (I found one that was a mix of Moz­zarella, Parme­san, Fontana, Romano, Pro­volone and Asi­ago — mag­nifico!)
    1. Pre­heat the oven or toaster oven accord­ing to pizza crust directions
    2. Put an even layer of chicken on the crust and driz­zle ranch dress­ing over it. (Don’t lay it on as thick as a mari­nara sauce — the ranch dress­ing has a slightly tangy fla­vor and you want it to taste light.)
    3. Chop basil leaves. Or do what I do — just hold all the leaves stacked together and snip them into very thin strips with the kitchen shears. Add the basil evenly over the other toppings.
    4. Layer on the grated cheese.
    5. Sprin­kle with Ital­ian seasoning.
    6. Cook until cheese is melted and every­thing is a light brown — about 12 min­utes on the pizza set­tings of my toaster oven.

    Yum! I think there’s room for a lit­tle exper­i­men­ta­tion. For instance, you could add some roasted gar­lic to it. But I’m afraid I’d pass out from sheer deliciousness.


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    October 8th, 2007 | Grace | No Comments |

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