Four years ago, I started a fundraising event with the San Francisco Giants. Baseball players Brandon Belt, Joe Panik and I created two 20-inch pizzas that would be sold by the slice. For each slice sold we donated $1. Joe Panik is from New York and mentioned to me that he hadn’t come across a Chicken Parm Pizza on the West Coast. I explained to him that it’s a pizza that’s not very common in California, but that we could definitely make one for him.
Well, it turned out to be a huge hit! In fact, it has raised nearly $50,000 for the George Mark Children’s House. So, with that said, I thought you might want to give it a try as a limited-time offering on your menu.
Experiment with it and see how it does in your shop!
Tony's Trending Recipe: Chicken Parm Pizza
Author: Pizza Today
Ingredients
- 26-32-ounce pizza dough
- 14-16 ounces whole-milk sliced mozzarella cheese
- 16 ounces toasted bread
- 1 ounce parsley, finely chopped
- 11-13 ounces tomato sauce
- 6 ounces chicken breast (see prep and additional ingredients below)
- Pinch of chopped garlic (1/2 teaspoon)
- Grated Parmesan cheese
- Oregano
- Olive oil
- Salt and pepper
- Shaved Parmigiano (optional)
- 1 pound flour
- 6 ounces buttermilk
Instructions
- Chicken Parmigiana preparation: Ground toasted bread with parsley and a heavy pinch of salt and pepper.
- Take your chicken, butterfly it and slightly pound it thin.
- Then dredge it in flour and buttermilk.
- Transfer chicken into the breadcrumb mixture.
- Place chicken on a lightly oiled half sheet pan and par-bake at 550 F for 5 minutes.
- Then fry the chicken for 3 minutes at 375 F.
- Pizza preparation: Shape and stretch your dough into an 18- or 20-inch circle. This is a “sauce on top pizza,” otherwise known as an “upside down pizza.”
- Add your ingredients in this order: sliced mozzarella, tomato sauce and garlic.
- Place pizza into your oven.
- While the pizza is cooking, fry 1 piece of chicken.
- Once fried, carefully cut into thin strips and set aside. When the pizza is finished, remove it from the oven and cut into desired slices.
- Once cut, place your chicken over the top of your pizza, finish with a heavy amount of grated Parmesan, oregano, olive oil, salt and pepper.
- At this time you can add the optional shaved Parm.
- Serve!
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