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California Pizza Kitchen Thai Chicken Pizza

Makes 2 9-inch pizzas
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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.
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Course Pizza