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Want to make pizza with Whole Foods brand crust? Learn how to use Whole Foods pizza dough for BBQ chicken pizza in this easy recipe.
Once you see how to use Whole Foods pizza dough – stretching, parbaking, and topping it with BBQ Chicken Pizza ingredients – you’ll be able to throw a pizza night any day of the week.
Even if this is your first time working with pizza, you’ll be happy to know my method for using Whole Foods pizza dough for barbecue chicken pizza is flawless. Today you’ll learn how to make delicious Whole Foods pizza crust and top it with all the tasty BBQ chicken ingredients.
Get tips on buying store bought pizza crust for homemade pizza.
Ingredients for BBQ chicken pizza on Whole Foods dough
This recipe starts with a bag of Whole Foods brand pizza dough, flour, olive oil and salt.
Once the Whole Foods crust par bakes, the topping are added, including Whole Foods Brand pizza sauce, shredded pizza blend cheese (substitute mozzarella or fontina), already cooked chicken breast (this is a great pizza for leftover chicken), BBQ sauce, fresh red pepper, and basil to garnish.
Stick with these exact ingredients for Whole Foods BBQ chicken pizza or swap out similar amounts of other vegetables and proteins.
How to make BBQ chicken pizza with Whole Foods dough
By now, I could make this in my sleep. Here are the steps to making tasty BBQ chicken pizza.
How To Help Whole Foods Dough Rise
Step 1. Before you start stretching Whole Foods pizza dough, you need to let the dough rise. Spreading Whole Foods pizza dough is much easier when it is room temperature.
One of my favorite ways to let Whole Foods store-bought dough rise is to leave it in the bag and sit it on the counter for a half an hour – up to a few hours.
If you don’t have time to let it rise this long, that’s okay – but you want it to basically be bursting through the bag of dough so it’s easy to stretch.
Step 2. Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Add parchment paper to a large rimmed sheet pan. Add 2 tsp of olive oil to the pan, and brush it with a pastry brush to spread the olive oil on the bottom and sides of the pan. Set aside.
Stretching Whole Foods pizza dough
Step 3. Stretch the dough from Whole Foods by adding 1 tbsp flour to a large cutting board. Add the raw Whole Foods pre-made dough on top of the flour, then flip to coat each side with flour. Stretch the dough by pinching the outside in a circular motion to spread it out.
Then stretch the inside of the pizza dough by pushing it against the cutting board from the center to the edges of the dough. Another method I often use is with my knuckles. To do this, put your knuckles under the half-stretched pizza dough and pull your hands outwards from the center. Use whatever methods to stretch the dough that work best.
One other tip I have is to add a light dusting to the dough as you stretch it out, which will help it keep the larger stretched out shape. If dough tears, don’t pull it so much and cover the holes. When dough has stretched to about the size of the pizza tray, transfer it to the sheet pan. If the dough will stretch further, push it to the outside of the tray.
How long to par bake fresh Whole Foods pizza dough
Step 4. Bake the naked pizza dough without toppings in the oven at 450 F for 7 minutes. During this time, prep toppings.
Step 5. Once the Whole Foods dough par bakes, take the pizza crust out of the oven. Preheat the oven to 500.
Brush 1 tsp olive oil around the outside of the dough to create a golden crust and sprinkle with salt.
How to add BBQ chicken toppings
Add the whole foods pizza sauce, half the shredded pizza blend cheese, sliced chicken breast, and BBQ sauce.
Top with the rest of the cheese and red peppers.
Bake the pizza at 500 for 7-10 minutes.
The pizza is done when the cheese is bubbling and completely melted.
Garnish with fresh basil and allow the pizza to cool for a few minutes before slicing and serving.
Final tips for BBQ chicken pizza with Whole Foods dough
- Par baking. Always drizzle a little olive oil on the parchment paper, under the dough. Don’t forget to lightly coat the bottom of the pan and the sides of the pan.
- Spreading the dough. If you’re having difficulty spreading the Whole Foods pizza dough across the entire baking sheet without making holes, just opt for a smaller pizza. Sometimes, due to the temperature in your kitchen, or the dough not having enough time to rise, it may be more difficult to stretch the dough. It will cook fine, even if the edges don’t touch the side of the pan.
- Holes in the pizza dough? Patch them so the dough is the same thickness throughout.
Kitchen tools to help
Here are some of the best ingredients and tools for making pizza…
- Baking pan set for cooking pizza
- Have you heard of this dough seasoning? It’s the secret to really tasty homemade pizzas
- Add more flavor with pizza seasoning
- Humungo pizza cutters
- Pizza peel is always nice to have
- Mini tongs for adding toppings to pizza
- Beautiful Acadia wood cutting boards
- Go pro with an Ooni pizza oven
- Use a mandoline to quickly slice vegetables
- This grilling pizza tool set has everything you need
- These are my favorite mixing bowls
- Make individual pizzas with this mini pizza pan set
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Whole Foods Pizza Dough For BBQ Chicken Pizza Recipe | Sip Bite Go
Want to make pizza with Whole Foods brand crust? Learn how to use Whole Foods pizza dough for BBQ chicken pizza in this easy recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 bag pizza dough Whole Foods Brand
- 1 1/2 tbsp flour divided
- 3 tsp olive oil divided
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup pizza sauce Whole Foods Brand
- 1 cup cheese shredded pizza blend,mozzarella, fontina
- 1/2 cup chicken breast cooked, sliced
- 2 tbsp BBQ sauce
- 2 tbsp red pepper tbsp
- basil fresh
Instructions
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First, let the Whole Foods pizza dough rise by setting it out on the counter for 30 minutes up a few hours before working with it. If you don’t have time to let it rise this long, that’s okay - but you want it to basically be bursting through the bag of dough so it’s easy to stretch.
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Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. Add parchment paper to a large rimmed sheet pan. Add 2 tsp of olive oil to the pan, and brush it with a pastry brush to spread the olive oil on the bottom and sides of the pan. Set aside.
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Stretch the dough from Whole Foods by adding 1 tbsp flour to a large cutting board. Add the raw Whole Foods pre-made dough on top of the flour, then flip to coat each side with flour. Stretch the dough by pinching the outside in a circular motion to spread it out. Then stretch the inside of the pizza dough by pushing it against the cutting board from the center to the edges of the dough. Another method I often use is with my knuckles. To do this, put your knuckles under the half-stretched pizza dough and pull your hands outwards from the center. Use whatever methods to stretch the dough that work best. One other tip I have is to add a light dusting to the dough as you stretch it out, which will help it keep the larger stretched out shape. If dough tears, don’t pull it so much and cover the holes. When dough has stretched to about the size of the pizza tray, transfer it to the sheet pan. If the dough will stretch further, push it to the outside of the tray.
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Bake the naked pizza dough without toppings in the oven at 450 F for 7 minutes. During this time, prep toppings.
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Once the Whole Foods dough par bakes for 7 minutes, take the pizza crust out of the oven. Preheat the oven to 500. Brush 1 tsp olive oil around the outside of the dough to create a golden crust and sprinkle with salt. Add the whole foods pizza sauce, half the shredded pizza blend cheese, sliced chicken breast, and BBQ sauce. Top with the rest of the cheese and bake the pizza at 500 for 7-10 minutes. The pizza is done when the cheese is bubbling and completely melted. Garnish with fresh basil and allow the pizza to cool for a few minutes before slicing and serving.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
- Par baking. Always drizzle a little olive oil on the parchment paper, under the dough. Don’t forget to lightly coat the bottom of the pan and the sides of the pan.
- Spreading the dough. If you’re having difficulty spreading the Whole Foods pizza dough across the entire baking sheet without making holes, just opt for a smaller pizza. Sometimes, due to the temperature in your kitchen, or the dough not having enough time to rise, it may be more difficult to stretch the dough. It will cook fine, even if the edges don’t touch the side of the pan.
- Holes in the pizza dough? Patch them so the dough is the same thickness throughout.
See the recipe: https://sipbitego.com/whole-foods-pizza-dough-bbq-chicken
See the recipe video: https://youtu.be/nONuplXZ404
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