Quick and Easy BBQ Chicken Pizza

Everybody loves pizza. It may sound daunting to try making something like this yourself at home, but it doesn't have to be.

I chose BBQ chicken for this recipe because it's my husband's favorite and one of the more difficult varieties to make. I figured if you could make this, every other kind would be easy peasy.

One of the best things about this recipe is that it's so easy to make. You don't have to have tons of complicated ingredients, you can make something unique every time with the ingredients you have, and it only takes about 20 minutes.

Start it off with your own homemade pizza crust and finish it off with healthy fresh ingredients and you'll have a meal the whole family will cheer for. At our house, we even like allowing each member of the family to pick out their own ingredients and essentially make their own favorite pizza flavor.

Half and Half Option

Even better, if you have picky eaters in the house that like different kinds of pizza but can't eat enough to have their own personal pizza, you can easily make them all half and half pizzas.

My favorite pizza is mushroom with extra mushroom, and my husband likes Hawaiian or BBQ chicken. I love veggies and he would rather not have any vegetables on his.

So I fix the problem, and give us both what we want most, by splitting the pizza in half. I put my favorite sauce and my toppings on one side, and I put his favorite sauce and toppings on his side.

My husband was so surprised! I was able to split this pizza in two and make a tomato and asparagus pizza for myself.

Since making this recipe the first time, we've repeated it for several of our friends for dinner, allowing them to make their own pizza, and splitting one of our own. And we used my Homemade Pizza Crust recipe to make it that much better.

We had tons of compliments on not only my pizza crusts, but also on the fun and personal experience this interesting dinner idea gave them.

This would make a really fun party idea, allowing each guest, or couple, to come into the kitchen and make their own pizza. You could make it an assembly line, with a number of scrumptious toppings, a variety of different sauces, and even fresh pizza dough that they could roll out themselves, if you wanted to.

And imagine the possibilities making this with kids!

Yummy and fun! What more could you ask for?!

Making your own pizza crusts may sound daunting and intimidating when you could just order out and have hot and ready pizzas at your door in 30 minutes. Did you know that you could make your pizza crusts ahead of time, just like you can buy them at the store?

Just roll them out and bake them for 6 minutes or so, just enough to cook them through but still be able to load them up with toppings and pop them back in the oven for a quick dinner one night. Freeze them on the pizza pan so they keep their shape, and then pull them off, wrap them up in several layers of plastic wrap and a layer of foil and you've got a pizza crust or two for anytime you need them.

You can even make them healthier by using coconut oil, whole wheat pastry flour and honey instead of the traditional white flour, sugar and olive oil. I like to add flaxseed (ground or whole), garlic and cheese into my pizza crusts.

Why stop there? Since originally posting this recipe, I have begun canning and preserving. So now I can use my Homemade Marinara Sauce, frozen shredded chicken breasts, and other canned items like my Homemade BBQ sauce using honey instead of sugar, pineapple, peppers, and even diced tomatoes.

Be on the lookout for all of my personal canning recipes for some of these yummy creations.