Chicken Pesto Pizza
- Italian Stromboli Dough
- 1 lb. chicken tenders
- 3/4 cup Italian dressing
- salt
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
- corn meal
- Pesto:
- 1 cup basil leaves
- 1/2 tsp garlic
- 1/4 cup parmesan cheese
- 1/8 tsp pepper
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 Tbsp pine nuts
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- Preheat pizza stone in 475 degree oven. (Pizza stone was placed on the bottom baking rack.)
- Put the chicken into a medium size bowl and cover it with the Italian dressing. Refrigerate for an hour.
- Heat a skillet over medium heat and add the chicken to the pan and sprinkle with salt. Cook until no longer pink and then remove and slice into small chunks.
- In a food processor combine all of the pesto ingredients and blend until it is well mixed.
- Sprinkle a pizza paddle with corn meal and stretch the dough out into a circle. Using a brush spread out the pesto onto the dough leaving about a 1/2 inch from the side untouched.
- Place the chicken pieces all over the pizza followed by the mozzarella cheese.
- Slide the pizza from the paddle onto the stone and cook for 13-15 minutes and then broil for 1 minute.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/chicken-pesto-pizza-51568841 (may not work)