Southwest BBQ Chicken Pizza….

** This post was imported as a part of my top 30 from my old blog – What’s Cooking in the Orange Kitchen**

A few weeks ago I decided to challenge myself to two things: 1. To make pizza on the grill and 2. To try and clone my favorite from Dewey’s Pizza (this might be an Ohio thing, anyone know of any in another state?). Well this pizza knocked both things out of the park. I have made this twice now and I actually have decided that I prefer this pizza to the restaurant version because the crust is crispier and I can make it more cheesy. I am pretty proud of myself for coming up with this one, it really is awesome and you should probably make it ASAP!

Grilling the pizza was surprisingly much easier than I had anticipated. I had visions of a perfectly good crust falling through the rack or it going up in flames. Thankfully, it did neither of this things. The most difficult part was flipping the pizza and the first time that was a little rough. This time I used 2 spatulas and let it cook a tiny bit longer on the one side so it would be more sturdy. I also put the dough right on the grill for the first side and then on an airbake pizza pan for the second side. That worked out great because I didn’t have to worry about moving the pizza from the grill to the house. Most recipes for grilled pizza call for smaller pizzas (like personal size pizzas) but I wanted a full size so that’s what I did and it worked out fine. But you could definitely make two personal size pizzas from this recipe and grill it that way.

Southwest BBQ Chicken Pizza

Sunny Side Up Original

Ingredients
1 ball of pizza dough (Today I used this recipe)
1 chicken breast, sliced
3/4 cup black bean and corn salsa (recipe below)
1/4 cup roasted red peppers, cut into chunks (I only put the peppers on my half of the pizza if you want to put them on the whole thing then use a 1/2 cup)
1/2-1 cup BBQ sauce
2 cups cheddar cheese
1 tbsp garlic butter (melted butter and minced garlic)

To assemble the pizza – spread the garlic butter over the dough, then pour on a little BBQ sauce, next add half of the black bean corn salsa, then the chicken and red peppers, then the a little more BBQ, then 1/2 of cheese and the rest of the black bean corn salsa and finally the rest of the cheese.

After assembling the pizza turn the heat down a little and shut the grill lid. Let cook for about 5 minutes. Check to see if the dough is golden brown (carefully not to burn your fingers, use a spatula!) and if the cheese is melted. If it looks like it needs more time continue to grill checking every minute or so.

Black Bean and Corn Salsa

1 tbsp vegetable oil
1/2 red onion, chopped
1 can black beans, drained
1/2 cup sweet yellow corn
salt and pepper to taste
cilantro to taste
squeeze of lime juice

You could easily just chop all of these ingredients up and throw them in a bowl cold, but I like to heat mine for this pizza and I like to saute the onions to take out some of the bite. So this is how I do that:

In a pan saute the onion for just a few minutes to take out the bite. Then add the black beans and corn and heat through. Finish with salt and pepper, cilantro and lime juice.