Chicken Alfredo Pizza

This pizza will always remind me of visiting the family.

8 oz cream cheese, cubed
3/4 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
garlic to taste

Mix together in sauce pan.

Chicken, grilled and cubed
mozzarella cheese, shredded
green onion, sliced
Bacon (this is a recent addition, and very tasty)
feta cheese, crumbled

Put on a pizza crust and bake at 375 until the cheese is melted and the crust if browned.

BBQ Chicken Pizza

I combined a few recipes together with a few random things I had in my fridge and I ended up with a yummy homemade pizza. I used my bread maker for the crust recipe, but I'm sure you could use a mixer or do it by hand. This recipe makes two 12 inch pizzas.

Pizza Dough

Ingredients

1 cup water

1 egg, beaten

1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoons sugar

3 cups bread flour

3 tablespoons dry milk powder

1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast

Make in bread machine according to manufacturer directions. Select "Dough" setting. Spread dough on greased pizza pans or cookie sheet. Poke holes in dough with fork. Bake at 400 degrees for about seven minutes. Take out of oven and add toppings.

BBQ Chicken Pizza

Toppings

3/4 cup spaghetti sauce mixed with 3/4 cup hot and spicy bbq sauce

2 marinated grilled chicken breasts, sliced into bite size pieces (I used a garlic herb marinade)

Swiss cheese

mozzarella cheese

red bell pepper, sliced

purple onion, sliced

fresh cilantro, chopped or dried cilantro

Spread sauce mix on partially cooked pizza crusts. Add grilled chicken cheeses (however much you like). Top with red pepper, onion, and cilantro. Continue to bake at 400 degrees until cheese is melted and crust is browned.

Bread Machine Calzone

This is my current favorite dinner to make.  It's versatile, quick, and easy.  I've tried all different pizza toppings for the filling inside-- chicken and Alfredo sauce, smoked sausage and marinara sauce, all kinds of veggies, chicken and barbecue sauce.  Of course, every topping has cheese.  The dough is perfect for calzones.  If you don't have a bread maker, you could use a mixer to make the dough.   Don't let the criss-cross pattern of the crust intimidate you.  It is super easy to make.  Olivia practically did this one all by herself.

1  1/4 C water

2 tsp active dry yeast

1  1/2 T white sugar

3 C bread flour -- more or less until dough does not stick to your finger when touched

1 tsp salt

1 tsp powdered milk

3/4 C sliced pepperoni

3/4 C pizza sauce

1  1/4 C shredded mozzarella cheese

2 T butter, melted

Italian seasoning

Parmesan cheese

To make dough:  Place water, sugar, flour, salt, powdered milk, and yeast in the pan of the bread machine in the order suggested by the manufacturer.  Select Dough cycle.  After cycle is completed, roll out dough on a lightly floured surface.  (I take the dough out after it has mixed and raised one time.)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Roll dough into a 16 x 10 inch rectangle.  Transfer to a lightly greased cookie sheet and spoon pizza sauce lengthwise down the center of the dough.  Add pepperoni and cheese on top.  Make diagonal cuts 1  1/2 inches apart down each long side of the dough rectangle, cutting to within 1/2 inch of the filling.  Criss-cross cut strips of dough over the filling and tuck ends in.  Brush top of calzone with melted butter.  Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning.

Bake at 350 degrees for 35 - 45 minutes, or until golden brown.  Remove from oven and cool for 5 minutes, then slice and serve.