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Monday, June 24, 2013

Strawberry Chicken Pizza

We've got a long history of trying out non-traditional pizzas here at Six-Seven-Eight, like our fall favorite of the apple Gorgonzola pizza. In another attempt at working fruit into pizza we recently tried making a sweet-spicy strawberry chicken pizza thanks to a Facebook post shared by one of the many cooking pages we follow.

If you'd like to see some of our previous pizza adventures, take a look at the pizapalooza, which included such delicious varieties as pickle cheeseburger and rueben sandwich, or other blogs like grilling pizza or making pull-apart pizza bread.

The sauce here is going to be very different than the traditional tomato or alfredo. Instead, we are starting with balsamic vinegar, which will be reduced down in a pan over medium-low heat.


While the balsamic vinegar is reducing, we cook a few chicken tenderloins in the oven, topped with garlic and onion powder and pepper.


Next we start the pizza crust. As with most of our other pizza posts, we're using our standard amazing recipe that makes a perfect fluffy/crunchy crust, but this time Megan is using wheat flour for a change of pace.


Here's our dough after rising, just about ready to be rolled out and covered in awesome toppings.


Next up we continue putting together the sauce. In addition to the balsamic vinegar reduction, we're going to be using some strawberry jam!


The jam and balsamic vinegar covers the sweet, but where's the spicy? In some sriracha hot sauce! This stuff is super potent though, so start off with less than you think you need and add in small doses until you get where you want heat-wise.


Here it's all coming together when we've got the right balance of jam and hot sauce.


Here are our toppings for the pizza: sliced strawberries, the baked chicken, onion slices, and chopped cooked bacon.


After the sauce if reduced down a bit Megan spoons it over our rolled out wheat pizza dough.


Rather than just putting the chicken on top, we're going to first toss the meat in some excess sauce.


Looks good enough to eat on its own!


Now we get the cheese layer, which consists of shredded Mozzarella and some Parmesan.


Then we pile on the rest of the toppings and arrange to perfection!


About 20 minutes later we get this mouth watering pie...


The end result was pretty tasty, although I definitely like the apple pizza with butter/garlic sauce much better. I think if we try this one again we may add in pecans and Gorgonzola or swap out a few ingredients.


Have you tried any great pizzas outside the norm using fruit or other interesting ingredients? Let us know about it in the comments below!

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