Smokey BBQ Chicken Pizza Recipe

Step 1

Add water and vinegar to a small pot and heat over medium-high heat until boiling.

Step 2

Add salt and sugar, stir to dissolve. With the liquid at a boil, add red onion and peppercorns, then shut off the heat.

Step 3

Allow to sit for 5 minutes to cool a bit, before pouring into a glass mason jar. Continue cooling at room temperature, about one hour, before placing in refrigerator to continue pickling. Onions can be used as early as two hours after cooking, however the flavor will be more pronounced 24+ hours.

Step 4

Add all ingredients into a bowl and mix well. Transfer to a squeeze bottle and refrigerate until ready to use.

Step 5

Flatten and stretch dough into 15-16" pies, sprinkling bread flour on the dough as needed to avoid sticking. If cooking in indoor oven, place dough on pizza peel prepared with a sheet of parchment paper. If using an outdoor oven, just place on a pizza peel.

Step 6

Prepare your pizza by ladling half of the BBQ sauce onto stretched dough. Starting from the outside and moving inward, spread a light even layer of cheese.

Step 7

Add chicken to the remaining BBQ sauce and toss well. Evenly spread chicken across pizza.

Step 8

Choose ONE coothing method below.

Step 9

Preheat to 550F for 45 minutes with pizza steel or stone on bottom rack.

Step 10

Using the pizza peel, carefully move pizza to oven (parchment paper should make it slide easily - you can leave it on the paper or remove the paper after 1 minute of cooking), and cook for about 6 minutes, watching closely for crust color and cheese burn. Avoid rotating when baking in home ovens as temperature loss from opening the door often does more harm. If top needs more color, turn on broiler for 1-2 minutes towards the end.

Step 11

Preheat your Ooni (or other portable outdoor pizza oven) for 25 minutes. The oven should reach near 850F in this time. Reduce the flame to very low. Place pizza in oven and cook for ~3 minutes (+/- 30 seconds depending on color) rotating as needed. TIP: if using an Ooni Koda or another gas model oven, reduce the heat to low just as you place the pizza in; this creates really great crust color without burning the cheese too early. This may increase cook time slightly.

Step 12

Let pizza cool for one minute on a wire rack or cutting board.

Step 13

Top with pickled red onion, cilantro, and drizzle Alabama White BBQ; slice and serve.