Grilled Chicken Tex-Mex Pizza
A Grilled Pizza everyone will love! This Chicken Pizza Recipe is topped with fresh and spicy Tex-Mex flavors. A mexican pizza perfect for party snacks or dinner.
We’ve been making a lot of pizza lately.
Not long ago we had family in town and decided to have a “Make Your Own Pizza Night” on a whim. We kneaded the dough late in the day and had to wait for it to rise. Yet those late-night pizzas were a huge success and my family has been craving homemade pizza ever since.
With all the pizza-making going on, we tried quite a variety of pies: grilled pizza, mexican pizza, steak pizza, wild mushroom pizza, artichoke pizza, and a killer chicken pizza recipe.
So today I thought I’d combine all my favorite elements from our pizza endeavors into one glorious pizza pie!
It’s a grilled pizza, a mexican pizza, and a chicken pizza recipe rolled into one.
Introducing Grilled Chicken Tex-Mex Pizza!
I grilled this pizza on my favorite grilling stone, piled with red enchilada sauce, spicy grilled chicken, and hispanic cheeses. Then once it was ready, I sprinkled on all my favorite cold Tex-Mex toppings, like diced tomato, avocado, cilantro, and scallions. Then I drizzled the whole pizza with fresh mexican crema.
Mmm. MMMMM.
This Mexican chicken pizza recipe is certainly crave-worthy. I can attest to that.
And don’t worry if you don’t own a grill. This “grilled pizza” can be baked in the oven just as easily.
I love throwing homemade pizza straight on the grill. However, sometimes the crust burns before the toppings are cooked through. That’s what makes grilling stones such a great invention.
You can achieve that smoky grilled pizza flavor without your dough sticking to the grates.
Grilled Chicken Tex Mex Pizza
Ingredients
For the Spicy Grilled Chicken:
- 2 large boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon chipotle chile pepper
- 1 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
For the Grilled Pizzas:
- 2 pounds pizza dough homemade or packaged
- 2 tablespoons olive oil divided
- 1/2 cup red enchilada sauce
- 1 cup shredded enchilado cheese or monterey jack
- 1 cup crumbled queso fresco cheese
- 1 large diced tomato
- 1 diced avocado
- 1/2 cup chopped scallions
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
- 1/3 cup crema Mexicana or sour cream
- 2 tablespoons cornmeal
Instructions
- Place two 1-pound balls of pizza dough in two separate oiled bowls, and cover with damp tea towels. Allow the dough to rise for 1 1/2-2 hrs, until double in size.
- For the chicken, drizzle the chicken breasts with olive oil. Mix the spices and salt in a small bowl and sprinkle liberally all over the chicken, then rub in the spices. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. Then grill the chicken over medium heat for 8-12 minutes. Once cool, chop into bite size pieces.
- Once the dough has risen, preheat the grill to high heat and place a grilling stone or pizze stone on the grates. (You could also place a baking stone in the oven at 500 degrees F.)
- Punch down each dough ball and roll (or stretch) the dough out into a thin 14-inch circle. Brush the surface with oil and allow the dough to rise a few more minutes while you chop the toppings.
- Sprinkle a tablespoon of cornmeal over the surface of two flat cookie sheets. Transfer the pizza doughs onto the cookie sheets and re-stretch if needed. Spread 1/4 cup enchilada sauce on each crust, then sprinkle with half the chopped chicken, 1/2 cup enchilado cheese, and 1/2 cup queso fresco.
- With a gentle thrust, slide one pizza off the cookie sheet onto the hot grilling stone. Close the grill cover and grill for 7-10 minutes until the crust in bubbly and brown on the bottom. Use the cookie sheet to remove it from the grill, and repeat with the remaining pizza.
- Once the pizzas are grilled, top each with fresh tomatoes, avocado, scallions, and cilantro. Pour the crema Mexicana in a squirt bottle and drizzle over the top of each pizza. Cut and serve.
I would make a whole wheat pizza wish mushrooms, ham, and cheese.
I love all things pizza
wow – this stone looks AWESOME! I would try pizzas on the grill. And do some marinated tofu on the grill too!
I’d love to throw some calzones on the stone and on the grill!
I am loving all the dough bubbles! My favorite part of pizza!!!!! Love all of these spectacular flavors!
I would make a sausage, artichoke heart and mushroom pizza :)
mushroom pizza
I’ll grill my favorite shrimp and avocado flat bread on the pizza stone. And I think the grilling stone is perfect for lobster, mussels or clams. YUM!
thanks for hosting the giveaway….this is perfect to kick start the grilling season.
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I make a Lebanese bread that is perfect for the grill, however, I have to watch it very carefully as it only requires a few minutes to puff up/cook. A grilling stone would be perfect for this.
Yummmy! Looks delicious. I will def. be giving this a try!
spinach and artichoke pizza!
I would make either a caprese or fig & blue cheese pizza first!
I would make this recipe of course!! Or maybe a feta cheese sausage pizza which is my fav flavor combo recently. I’ve been putting it on everything. Toast, pasta, eggs, you name it. ;)
I would try a gluten-free pizza crust recipe that I found recently.
I would make all varities of pizza…the sky is the limit on potential ideas.
I love this! I think I would make a simple grilled caprese pizza with balsamic glaze!
This looks really yummy, can’t wait to try it. Would love to have the grilling stone. This looks awesome!
We love making grilled pizzas! I’m good with most any toppings, but especially love fresh mushrooms, mozzarella, and herbs, and some sundried tomatoes, yum!!