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Revision as of 10:04, 30 January 2014

Tandoori chicken pizza
Electus
Servings:Serves 2
Ready in:4 hours, 16 minutes
Prep. time:4 hours
Cook time:16 minutes
Difficulty:Average difficulty

Following the recent scare over processed meat, I felt less inclined to use chorizo sausages for our regular home made pizza so I thought I would use fresh chicken breasts and flavour them with a pseudo-tandoori flavouring instead. This does take quite a while to prepare, but only takes a few minutes of your time over a long period. If you want to cheat even more, then use a packet of pre-cooked tandoori chicken that most supermarkets sell. Of course if you want to go the whole-hog, you can make everything from scratch with this chicken tikka recipe.

I would normally skewer and grill the chicken as the pieces are too small to sit over the grid on a grill pan but as the skewers could not be found at the last minute I pan-fried the chicken instead. Just cook on a high heat until most of the liquid cooks off.

Ingredients

for the tandoori chicken

Ingredients

Printable 🖨 shopping 🛒 list & 👩‍🍳 method for this recipe

  • 1 pack pre-cooked tandoori chicken pieces

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for the pizza topping - 2 pizzas

Mise en place

  • Slice the chicken very thinly, add to a bowl with a tablespoon of lemon juice and a good pinch of salt. Leave for 1 hour.
  • Mix whatever curry paste you are using into a pot of yogurt
  • Stir this in to the chicken pieces and leave in a cool place to marinade for 2 or 3 hours
  • Make the pizza dough as instructed
  • If using a pizza stone, pre-heat the pizza stone under a very hot grill for about 20 minutes. Place it about 8cm (3") from the heat source.

Method

  1. Cook the chicken whichever way you please: skewered and grilled or barbecued or even pan fried, picking the chicken pieces out of the marinade leaving some of the marinade on the chicken, most of it will cook off.
    Tandoori chicken pizza pan fried.jpg
  2. Pan fried tandoori chicken
  3. Make 1 pizza per person
  4. Dust your work surface with fine yellow cornmeal
  5. Divide the pizza dough into two and roll out into two thin 25.5 cm (10 inch) pizzas
  6. You can leave them in a warm place for an hour or so to rise. I quite like them cooked immediately they are rolled out for a more crispy finish.
  7. With a deft move, slide the pizza from the pizza peel, on to the pre-heated pizza stone.
  8. Cook on one side only for about 2 minutes or until lightly browned.
  9. Repeat for the other side.
    Tandoori chicken pizza ready to bake.jpg
  10. Remove from the oven and add the cooked chicken, mozzarella, tomatoes, a few onion rings and a drizzle of olive oil.
  11. Return to the oven and cook until the cheese is nicely melted.
  12. Repeat for the second pizza whilst you prepare the first.
  13. Keep the first pizza warm at the bottom of the oven whist you make the second.

Serving suggestions

Serve with one of these cole slaw recipes.