For the past few months, we’ve been having Homemade Pizza night, as a way to cut a few costs, and pull my little men into the kitchen to be my helpers.

We typically do just plain ole’ pepperoni pizza, but it was time for a change.

I had this hankering for a garlic chicken pizza with a creamy sauce, so I thought I’d see what I could whip up.

The crust recipe is from a friend

Pizza Crust

1 cup warm water

1 tsp sugar

1 Tbsp yeast

let bloom in a mixing bowl.

Add in:

2 1/2 cups flour

1/2 tsp salt

once completely incorporated, add:

2 Tbsp olive oil until just coating almost mixed in.

Let the dough stand for 5 minutes, then form your pizza crust (I can usually get 2 pizzas out of a batch.)

Add toppings

then bake at 425 for 18-25 minutes

 

For the Grilled Garlic Chicken Ranch Pizza

I marinated the chicken thighs in olive oil, 6 cloves of garlic, salt and pepper to taste  in my fridge overnight.

I grilled up the chicken first then chopped it into bite size bits.

While the chicken was cooling a bit, I made the pizza crust.

Form your crust on a stone or in my case an airbake cookie sheet (works pretty well but I would like to get a stone)

Sprinkle your crust with a dusting of garlic powder or salt…. you wont be sorry!

Spread a good helping of ranch dressing on the crust, I also used this homemade ranch dressing recipe I found on Pinterest as my sauce. Sprinkle generously with mozzarella cheese, then scatter your chicken on top of that. I add a little bit of parmesan cheese and green onions on top just to give it a little added flavor and color.

 

Hope you enjoy it as much as we did!!!