Chicken And Roasted Red Bell Pepper Ciabatta Pizzas Recipes

CHICKEN AND ROASTED RED BELL PEPPER CIABATTA PIZZAS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F or 180°C.
• Remove the tops and seeds from the red bell peppers and cut the flesh into strips (8-12 strips per pepper).
• Put the peppers on a baking tray, drizzle over the olive oil and bake in the oven for about 30 minutes, until soft and slightly blackened around the edges.
• Meanwhile, prepare the rest of the pizzas- cut the ciabatta loaf in half and then halve again lengthwise (or if using rolls, halve them). You should now have four bases to work with.
• Mix the pizza sauce with the sundried tomato paste and spread evenly over the ciabatta bases.
• Share 1/2 cup of the mozzarella cheese between the bases.
• Top with the chicken and, when cooked, the red peppers.
• Top with the remaining cheese.
• Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes, until warmed through and the cheese has completely melted.
• Serve hot!

FETA AND RED BELL PEPPER PIZZA

Steps:

• Prepare grill:
• Open vents in lid and bottom of a kettle grill and put 25 briquets on each of 2 opposite sides of bottom, leaving middle clear. Oil rack and position it with flaps over briquets (for adding more briquets), 5 to 6 inches above them. Light briquets. (They're ready when grayish white, 20 to 30 minutes.)
• Shape pizza dough while grill heats:
• Halve dough and form each half into a disk. Dust dough and your hands with flour. Holding 1 edge of 1 piece of dough in the air with both hands and letting bottom touch work surface, move hands around edge (like turning a steering wheel), allowing weight of dough to stretch round to roughly 6 inches. Flour your fists and with them stretch dough from center of underside, turning dough to maintain a rough circle, until about 10 inches in diameter.
• Put round on a lightly floured foil-lined baking sheet, then lightly flour top of dough and cover with another sheet of foil. Repeat shaping with remaining piece of dough and stack on top of first round, lightly flouring and covering with foil.
• Make pizzas:
• Stir garlic into oil.
• Discard foil from top crust and lightly brush with 1 tablespoon garlic oil.
• Holding foil underneath, flip crust, oiled side down, onto rack of grill. Repeat with remaining crust. Cover grill and cook until undersides of crusts are golden brown, about 4 minutes.
• Turn crusts over with 2 metal spatulas, then brush each with 1 tablespoon garlic oil and sprinkle with bell peppers, feta, oregano, and salt and pepper to taste. Cover grill and cook 5 to 7 minutes more, or until undersides are golden brown and cheese is slightly melted.

CHICKEN BREASTS WITH ROASTED RED PEPPERS

Steps:

• Place each breast between 2 sheets of parchment paper or plastic wrap and pound to an even 1/2-inch thickness. Sprinkle with salt. Coat with flour, shaking off excess.
• Warm 2 tablespoons of oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook chicken until golden brown on both sides and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side. Transfer to a platter and cover loosely.
• Heat remaining 1 tablespoon oil in skillet. Saute garlic until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add peppers and saute 1 minute more.
• Add broth, vinegar and sugar; bring to a boil, scaping up browned bits from the bottom of the skillet. Reduce heat and simmer until slightly thickened, about 4 minutes.
• Remove from heat; stir in butter and parsley until butter melts.
• Pour sauce over chicken and serve immediately.