Monday, September 5, 2011

take-out fake-out: bj's buffalo chicken pizza


1/3 recipe of deep dish pizza dough (recipe to follow)
1 cooked chicken breast diced
1 cup of grated mozzarella cheese
4-5 tbs Red's hot sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 oz blue cheese crumbled
Ranch dressing for serving

Pizza Dough:
          1 1/3 cup warm milk
          1 tsp salt
          4 cups flour
          1 tbs sugar
          1 package active dry yeast
          2 tbs vegetable oil (for dough)
          1 1/2 tbs vegetable oil (for pan)

       
mix yeast, salt, sugar and warm milk in the bowl of your stand mixer.  let stand for 2 minutes.  mix in oil.  add flour slowly, mixing using the paddle attachment.  once all the flour has been added, switch to the dough hook attachment and knead for 5 minutes on medium speed, or until dough is smooth and not sticky.  divide dough into 3 pieces.  at this point you can either get your dough in your greased round cake pan or packaged for freezing.

since we're making buffalo chicken pizza you will want to grease a 9in round cake pan with the remaining vegetable oil (make sure the sides are greased).  place 1 of the dough pieces in the pan and spread it using fingers.  brush the top of the dough with a little vegetable oil, cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise for 1 hr in a warm place.  once the dough has risen for 1hr punch down and press dough up the sides of the pan and let rise again for 30-40 minutes.  while you are waiting for the second rise get all of the other ingredients ready and preheat your oven to 450.  

mix the hot sauce with sugar until the sugar is dissolved.  toss the chicken in the sauce.  top the dough with half of the mozzarella, then the chicken and sauce and followed by the remaining mozzarella.  if desired spread the crumbled blue cheese on top.

bake at 450 degrees for about 15-20 minutes or until crust is golden brown.  serve with ranch dressing drizzled over the pizza.

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