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Ever since flatbread pizzas started to appear in the market, I have been craving my mom’s homemade pizzas. She used to create her own pizza bases out of organic wheat flour that was from locally grown wheat. Her pizzas where not always perfect but couldn’t be beaten by any pizzas today. They were just light and flavorful. You never felt over stuffed after eating those homemade treasures.

Out of all the flat breads available, I prefer naan. They are much more flavorful and close to home. I have to share my naan recipe here, I am sure you will find these exotic breads taking your meals to a whole different level.

Great ingredients! Great pizza!

Sight of flavors!

My version of flatbread pizza:

Flavorful and unique.

Lots of naan bread pizza ideas are out there but this version of flatbread pizza is my favorite version. I love the this combo of toppings so much. Goat cheese, cream cheese combo with capers, olives ,sauteed peppers with some basil butter brushed on just makes the best comfort food for me where as my wife loves a Greek inspired flatbread topping, which in fact is our next recipe.

If you would like another awesome pizza recipe try our barbecue chicken pizza.

Smoked Gouda and smoked paprika really makes this pizza special!

Hope you enjoy this simple flatbread pizza and come back for more delicious recipe!

Simple perfection

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Flatbread Pizza – Naan Bread Pizza – I

Basil butter naan white pizza is as good as artisan pizzas. This recipe will make you realize how easy it is to whip up a delicious flatbread pizza at home.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword basil butter naan pizza, easy flatbread pizza, white pizza

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Total Time 20 minutes minutes

Servings 2

Calories 441kcal

Ingredients

Pizza toppings

• 2 Tbsp Cream cheese
• 1 1/2 Tbsp Goat cheese
• 3/4 Cup Sauteed Spinach and green peppers
• 1 1/2 Tbsp Capers
• 1 Tsp Basil ( dry or fresh )
• 1/2 Tsp Garlic powder
• 1/2 Cup Mozzarella
• 1 Tsp Oregano
• Pinch of salt
• 1 Naan ( We used garlic naan, but any naan will do. )

Instructions

Making the pizza:

• Preheat the oven at 400F. Soften cream cheese and spread on the naan. Drizzle on basil butter. Butter doesn't have to cover the entire flatbread pizza. Place sauteed veggies and goat cheese. Add the olives, capers and crush oregano between your fingers then sprinkle over the naan. Generously cover the naan with mozzarella. Bake for 8-10min. Watch from 8mins onward to make sure we are not over cooking the pizza. Ovens vary. When it is done brush the basil butter on the edges of naan. Rest the flatbread pizza for cooling it slightly, slice and enjoy.
  

For making basil butter:

• Melt a table spoon of butter in a sauce pan on medium heat. Add basil to it and wait till you can smell the basil in the air. Make sure not to burn the herb otherwise you will notice a bitterness on your pizza (speaking from experience). Add a pinch of salt for taste.
  

Notes

      Notes:

• If you are using a toaster oven to make this recipe. This will still work but reduce the temperature 375F and watch how it turns out.
• You can substitute any ingredients in this pizza for other ingredients you like BUT make sure that moisture content stays to a minimum when  you top it. Since flatbread are fairly thin, the pizza will be soggy.

Nutrition Facts

Flatbread Pizza – Naan Bread Pizza – I

Amount Per Serving (2 g)

Calories 441 Calories from Fat 200

% Daily Value*

Fat 22.2g34%

Saturated Fat 12.8g80%

Cholesterol 68mg23%

Sodium 1176mg51%

Potassium 261mg7%

Carbohydrates 38.9g13%

Fiber 2.6g11%

Sugar 5.4g6%

Protein 21.9g44%

Vitamin A 3750IU75%

Vitamin C 71.8mg87%

Calcium 400mg40%

Iron 4.5mg25%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Serving: 2g | Calories: 441kcal | Carbohydrates: 38.9g | Protein: 21.9g | Fat: 22.2g | Saturated Fat: 12.8g | Cholesterol: 68mg | Sodium: 1176mg | Potassium: 261mg | Fiber: 2.6g | Sugar: 5.4g | Vitamin A: 3750IU | Vitamin C: 71.8mg | Calcium: 400mg | Iron: 4.5mg

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Smoked Gouda and smoked paprika really makes this pizza special!

I love pizza and how it brings together people of all ages. It is versatile and easy to prepare, do please the crowd at home easily 🙂 You can make it as healthy as you want and with a recipe like the following one, you can accomplish all these pretty quickly when you are in a hurry.

The best part of this dough is that it is pretty much a “no wait” dough. All you need to do is mix the ingredients, knead it, rest it for 10mins ( while it rests you can prep your toppings ) and bake it! This dough is soft and chewy. I have had good results with this dough for thin crusts pizzas as well. You will love this pizza if you want:

• An easy “not so complicated” quick homemade pizza.
• Deliciously flavored crust which goes well pretty much with any toppings.
• Barbecue chicken pizza turns out to surprisingly delicious with smoked Gouda, oregano, smoked paprika and caramelized peppers. Even my kid who is pretty choosy when it comes to food loves it.
  

  The mighty dough 🙂

I never would have topped barbecue sauce on any pizza. In fact, I was not really a barbecue sauce fan. Everything changed, when I was given a chicken bake by my friend Rosa V who is an avid cook and the goddess of experimenting, pushing boundaries in the kitchen. In her chicken bake, she combined barbecue sauce with jalapenos, sweet peppers, delicious cheese and spices. She took the sweet barbecue sauce to a whole new level. Ever since, I am a obsessed fan. Hence sweet, savory and smokey barbecue chicken pizza was born. While I am sure for purists who think there to be only two kinds of true pizzas – the marinara and the margherita , this pizza might be unacceptable. But in our kitchen this is considered to be “the bomb”!

Final Spectacle

Everything coming together!

Even the picky eater in my family was impressed by this pizza. Hope you have fun making this simple Barbecue Chicken Pizza! Please let me know what you think of this. If you would like to try a delicious dessert pizza, here is a beautiful recipe! Strawberry pizza with dark chocolate and pistachios!.

I want a slice! Now!

Important notes about barbecue chicken pizza:

• This is a quick pizza dough, this is not claiming to be an artisan pizza.
• The resulting dough after you mix the dry ingredients is slightly sticky. At this point, you need to use 1/4 to 1/2 cup of flour to knead it. It is very important to know that kneading for 5min is very necessary for a softer dough. After you knead it properly, the dough won’t be sticky and it will be very easy to spread on a pizza pan.
• For easier kneading and handling a sticky dough, oil your hands and use flour sparingly. Just enough to make the dough cooperate with you. Adding the whole amount of flour ( 1/4cup – 1/2cup) directly in one addition before kneading will result in a very dry pizza. Add flour in small steps and stop adding when the dough comes together. Right when the dough is softer and not very sticky.
• I have no patience whatsoever! But if you are patient enough, you can rise this dough for an hour after kneading and this will result in a crunchier, moist dough. After rising for an hour, punch it down and roll to form the pizza then top it.
  

  Easy Barbeque Chicken Pizza.

  

  My new addiction!

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Easy Homemade Barbeque Chicken Pizza

Easy Barbecue Chicken Pizza explodes with flavors in your mouth. Quick no rise homemade crust with barbecue sauce, sweet peppers and Gouda cheese makes this pizza irresistible.

Course Main Course

Cuisine American, Italian inspired

Keyword barbeque pizza, chicken pizza, easy pizza, homemade pizza

Prep Time 25 minutes minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 40 minutes minutes

Servings 12

Calories 333kcal

Ingredients

For the pizza crust:

• 2 1/2 cup All purpose flour
• 1 Cup Luke warm water.
• 1/2 Tsp Sugar
• 2 1/4 Tsp Instant dry yeast(one packet).
• 2 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil (or any mild tasting oil).
• 1/2 Tsp Garlic powder(Or more if you like)
• 1/2 Tsp Salt
• 1 Tsp Italian seasoning or at least some oregano and basil for flavor.

For toppings:

• 1 - 1 1/2 Cups Caramalized thinly sliced peppers (See notes). I used yellow,red and orange peppers.
• 4-5 Tenderloins of chicken cooked and cubed (See below).
• 1 Cup Smoked Gouda cheese grated(or more if you like)
• 1/2-1 Cup Mozzarella grated (Do not use grated cheese bought from stores. This has an anticaking agent and will not melt properly. Use block of cheese for best results.)
• 1/2 - 1 Cup Barbecue sauce
• 2-3 Sprigs Chopped green oinions. And more for garnishing.
• 2 Tsp Oregano
• 1/2 Red onion sliced.

For the chicken

• 3 Tsp Smoked paprika
• 2 Tsp Garlic powder
• 2-3 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil.
• Salt to taste.

Instructions

• Preheat your oven at 425F.
  
• Caramelize peppers on medium high heat in olive oil. Add salt and any seasonings you like to it. I added smoked paprika and garlic to mine.
  
• Season chicken with smoked paprika, chili powder, garlic, and salt. Cook the chicken on medium heat in a frying pan with two table spoons of oil,  4-5mins per side. When it is done, rest the meat for a few minutes for juicier tenderloins. Then cube the chicken for the pizza.
  

To make the crust

• While the chicken and peppers are cooking, in a medium bowl, mix yeast and sugar. Do not add salt at this point.
• Then pour the oil and warm water over the yeast mix. Leave it unstirred for a minute.
• Combine all the dry ingredients and whisk. Then dumb all of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix it to form a sticky dough.
• Transfer the dough to a floured table top and knead it for five minutes. Use flour and oil on your hands to manage the dough. After five minutes or so you will notice that the dough is softer and elastic.
• Oil your pizza pan with coconut oil (easier to release your pizza after baking) and spread your dough in your preferred shape , thickness. Make sure to leave the edges thicker.
• Poke holes on the pizza dough with a fork to avoid the dough bubbling up while baking. Leave the dough to rest for 10 minutes while you prep your toppings.

Topping the pizza

• Brush barbecue sauce generously on the crust. Arrange caramelized peppers on the crust. Add chopped green onions. Next add chicken, Gouda cheese and finally mozzarella.  Then arrange sliced onion. Adding onions last helped them cook and caramelize a bit and this was tasty! Crush generous amount of oregano between your fingers and sprinkle on the pizza. After you top the cheese, make sure to press the cheese gently on to the other toppings. This helps the cheese to soak in some of the moisture of other toppings. It avoids burning and helps to have perfectly melted cheese.
• Bake the pizza for 15-16mins or until you have slightly golden brown edges. Take the pizza out and garnish it with some green onions or cilantro. Let it cool for couple of minutes.
  
• Pig-out! 🙂 Enjoy your barbecue chicken pizza.
  

Notes

      Notes:

• Cooking time of this pizza is 15mins can be 20mins. But usually this pizza is done at 15mins. The telltale sign is a lightly brown edges.
• Brushing some water or oil on the crust will keep it from drying out.
• We used smoked Gouda but regular Gouda works perfect as well.

Nutrition Facts

Easy Homemade Barbeque Chicken Pizza

Amount Per Serving

Calories 333 Calories from Fat 92

% Daily Value*

Fat 10.2g16%

Saturated Fat 4g25%

Cholesterol 74mg25%

Sodium 511mg22%

Potassium 479mg14%

Carbohydrates 30.7g10%

Fiber 2g8%

Sugar 6g7%

Protein 27.7g55%

Vitamin A 550IU11%

Vitamin C 4.1mg5%

Calcium 100mg10%

Iron 2.7mg15%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Nutrition

Calories: 333kcal | Carbohydrates: 30.7g | Protein: 27.7g | Fat: 10.2g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 74mg | Sodium: 511mg | Potassium: 479mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 550IU | Vitamin C: 4.1mg | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 2.7mg

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