California Pizza Kitchen Thai Chicken Pizza
Makes 2 9-inch pizzas
Ingredients
Spicy peanut sauce:
- ½ Cup peanut butter
- ½ Cup hoisin sauce
- 1 Tbsp. honey
- 2 tsp. red wine vinegar
- 2 tsp. minced ginger
- 2 Tbsp. sesame oil
- 2 tsp. soy sauce
- 1 tsp. Vietnamese chili sauce or dried chili flakes
- 1 Tbsp. oyster sauce
- 2 Tbsp. water
Thai chicken pieces:
- 1 Tbsp. olive oil
- 10 oz. boneless/skinless chicken beast cut into 3/4-inch cubes
For the pizza: Make pizza dough using your own recipe.
- 2 Cups mozzarella cheese shredded
- 4 scallions slivered diagonally
- ½ Cup white bean sprouts
- ¼ Cup carrots shredded
- ¼ Cup peanuts roasted & chopped
- 2 Tbsp. cilantro chopped fresh
Instructions
To make spicy sauce:
- Combine sauce ingredients in a small pan over med. heat.
- Bring the sauce to a boil; boil gently for one minute.
- Divide into 2 portions for use onchicken and pizza; Set aside.
To make Thai chicken:
- Cook the chicken in olive oil over med-high heat, stirring, until just cooked, 5 to 6 min..do not overcook.
- Set aside in refrigerator until chilled through.
- Once chilled, coat the chicken with 1/4c sauce.
- Set aside in refrigerator.
To make the pizza:
- Use a large spoon to spread 1/4c sauce evenly over pizza dough within the rim.
- Cover sauce with 3/4c cheese.
- Distribute half the chicken pieces over the cheese followed by half the green onions, bean sprouts, and carrots, respectively.
- Sprinkle an additional 1/4c cheese over the toppings and top the pizza with 2Tbl chopped peanuts.
- Transfer the pizza to oven: bake until crisp and golden and the cheese is bubbly, 9 to 10 min.
- When cooked through, remove pizza from oven.
- Sprinkle 1T chopped cilantro over the hot cheesy surface.
- Repeat with remaining ingredients for a second pizza.