Taco Pizza

This recipe borrows from a couple different places. For the dough, I used Pioneer Woman's recipe. Pretty straightforward, although I didn't have active dry yeast. I had instant. And according to King Arthur flour, they can be used interchangeably. So guess what I did!! I made the dough yesterday, as per her suggestion that it will taste better if made at least 24 hours in advance.

Most recipes I found for taco pizza used ground beef, but I stumbled upon one using chicken. I liked this idea better, so that's what I did! Cooking the chicken was easy enough. I cooked two breasts instead of one, as it's impossible to find just one chicken breast unless you have a big package of frozen ones...which I don't.

After the chicken was ready to go, I spread out the dough on a cookie sheet. Side note here, I'd forgotten how much of a pain it can be to try to spread pizza dough. The dough was sticky and had a tendency to tear, but the store bought doughs I've used have been that way too. Such is pizza dough, I suppose.

The cheese mixture I used was my own random concoction of a bit of leftover mozzarella, Monterey jack, and a bit of cheddar. I didn't measure any of these, just eyeballed what looked good. I'm a rebel that way. ;)

I decided to put the chicken underneath the cheese, but it can go on top if that's how you'd prefer to roll with your pizza. The idea to use salsa instead of pizza sauce came from the same place I got the chicken recipe from. This really made a difference!

(I actually really like this picture. Have you noticed I broke out my fancy camera instead of just using my phone for this post?)

I baked the pizza according to the directions from PW's dough recipe. It says to bake 12-15 minutes, I baked for 12 to be safe.

Oh my gravy, folks. This was good! The crust was crispy, yet soft. And using salsa for the sauce added a little kick that really made this different. Next time though, I may bake it a bit longer to make the crust a bit firmer towards the middle of the pizza. 4 stars from me and Husband, we'll definitely do this again.