How to Make the Best Chicken & Bacon Pizza with Ranch or BBQ Sauce

How to make homemade chicken bacon pizza with ranch or BBQ - This simple and easy recipe makes the best garlic crust that's baked in the oven with ranch dressing or barbecue sauce. More ideas for variations including buffalo.

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This past weekend, we made some homemade pizza, and it was delicious. In fact, this pizza was the best one we've made in months, and we make pizza almost every week.

See, we had gotten into a pepperoni and mushroom rut, and this was a wild departure from that.

We originally made half of our pizza chicken bacon ranch and the other half BBQ chicken and bacon. Gracie liked the ranch half better, and Joe and I liked the BBQ sauce side better, but the whole thing was delicious.

How to make a chicken bacon pizza with ranch or BBQ sauce

1. Preheat the oven to 400º and spray a pizza stone with cooking spray.
2. Fry bacon in a skillet until it is crispy. Drain and pat dry with paper towels. Chop coarsely. Remove all but 1 tablespoon of grease.
3. Add chopped onion to skillet and sauté until translucent and soft.
4. Unroll dough on the pizza stone; starting at center, roll into a large circle.
5. Pre-bake the crust for 10 minutes or until the crust is just beginning to turn golden on top.
6. Spread sauce evenly over dough. Top with chicken, bacon, onion, tomato, and cheese.
7. Bake 13 to 16 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is melted.

Variations on the original recipe

We created this recipe using ranch dressing and BBQ sauce. It was very flavorful and delicious. However, there are many variations you can easily make:

If you want a chicken bacon ranch stromboli, use ranch dressing (here’s my homemade recipe for ranch dressing which is amazing!).

f you want a BBQ chicken stromboli, use BBQ sauce (my favorite is Sweet Baby Ray’s or Jack Daniels, but I have also made a sugar-free BBQ sauce which is pretty good).

If you want a buffalo chicken stromboli, use Frank’s RedHot or a different buffalo wing sauce.

If you want a traditional pizza flavor, use pizza sauce.

If you're looking for more unique pizza topping recipes, check out these 24 healthy & frugal pizza recipes.

Chicken Bacon Pizza with Ranch or BBQ

How to make homemade chicken bacon pizza with ranch or BBQ - This simple and easy recipe makes the best garlic crust that's baked in the oven with ranch dressing or barbecue sauce. More ideas for variations including buffalo.

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Prep Time 20 mins

Cook Time 15 mins

Total Time 35 mins

Course Main Course, Main Dish

Cuisine American

Servings 8 slices

Calories 456 kcal

Equipment

• Garlic press
• Pizza stone

Ingredients

  

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• 1 pizza crust see notes below for a link to our favorite homemade pizza crust or use a pre-made crust from the dairy case
• 1 cup sauce ranch, BBQ, pizza sauce, or buffalo wing sauce
• 12 ounces chicken breast cooked and chopped or shredded
• 4 slices bacon
• 1 large onion chopped
• 1 plum tomato seeded, chopped
• 1 ½ cups Cheddar cheese shredded
• 1 ½ cups mozzarella cheese shredded

Instructions

 

• Heat oven to 400°F. Spray a pizza stone with cooking spray.
• Fry bacon in a skillet until bacon is crispy. Drain and pat dry on paper towels. Chop coarsely. Pour out all but 1 tablespoon of bacon fat from the skillet. Add chopped onion to the skillet and sauté until translucent and soft.
• Unroll dough on stone; starting at center, press dough into a large circle.
• Pre-bake the crust for 10 minutes or until the crust is just beginning to turn golden on top.
• Spread sauce evenly over dough. Top with chicken, bacon, onions, tomato, and cheeses.
• Bake 13 to 16 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is melted.

Notes

We made half of our pizza with the ranch dressing and the other half with Jack Daniels BBQ sauce. Joe and I preferred the BBQ half. Grace devoured the ranch pizza.

I hate raw tomatoes, and I convinced Joe to leave them off of half of the pizza. It was good without them, and he said it was good with them.

Here is the link to our favorite homemade pizza dough. You could use a pre-made dough, and that would certainly save both time and effort, but the homemade dough is really delicious and I promise that you won't regret taking the extra time.

Here is the link to our favorite homemade ranch dressing powder. That post includes directions for making dressing from the seasoning mix.

Nutrition

Calories: 456kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 27g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Cholesterol: 71mg | Sodium: 799mg | Potassium: 240mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 432IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 310mg | Iron: 2mg

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