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Pizzas and stuff. |
Chicken
Now that we’ve made the Bar-b-q and the Supreme, it’s time to make the Chicken pizza. This also is a very tasty pizza, but as it’s made with chicken pieces, (fresh chicken goes off very quickly) buy your chicken the day you want to use it.Once again, it’s very important that you get both the base and the sauce just right. For those that did not see Vol 5 with its instructions on how to prepare the base, we’ll repeat it here. Here’s what you do.
Buy a good quality base (Tip Top are ok, and come in packs of 2), the large supermarket home brand bases are just marginal. Don Emilio’s are the best. Remember, we are making a 12 inch, or family, pizza. You’ll also need some of the Raguletto Primavera sauce that we used to make the supreme. In our last edition we mentioned that United Foods do not market their Raguletto Primavera sauce through retail outlets. They have since been in touch and advise that even though they don’t market the sauce under the Raguletto brand, they do produce an equivalent sauce under the "Five Brothers" brand. Try that!
Pre-heat your oven to 2000C. While the oven is warming, liberally brush the top of your pizza base/s with olive oil, (about 1 dessertspoon), or you can buy a spray-on olive oil-which is better. Sprinkle basil onto the oil. Place the base into the hot oven for about 4-6 minutes, or until the base starts to brown. Don’t toast it. Remove the base and allow to cool. Now you’re ready to make your pizza. Leave the oven on.
You’ll need the following:-
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- Pizza base.
- Raguletto Primavera sauce or equivalent
- Satay sauce.
- 1 handful of diced bacon.
- 1/4 red capsicum-thinly sliced then chopped into small pieces.
- 1/4 green capsicum-cut the same as the red one.
- 1 medium onion., sliced into rings.
- 1 chicken breast.
- Perfect Italiano Pizza Plus shredded cheese.
Cut the chicken into small pieces Brown the chicken and half the onion in a wok or frying pan in a small amount of oil. Once browned, mix in about 1/2 cup satay sauce, stirring until the sauce has been taken up by the chicken and onion. Remove from the pan and allow to cool. Fountain Satay sauce that you can buy almost everywhere is quite good.
Make a 50:50 mixture of Raguletto Primavera (or the alternative) and Satay sauce (about 1/3 cup in total). Spread this mixture onto the pizza base. Over the sauce add a small dusting of pizza cheese. Then add the diced bacon, the chicken mix, green and red capsicum, the rest of the onion then top the lot with about 1 hand full of cheese. Remember-not too much as too much cheese only insulates the ingredients below it and prevents them from cooking.
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Once it’s cooked, remove, slice and eat. Try not to use a "wheel" cutter when slicing pizzas, all they do is push all the ingredients over to the other side. The perfect tool for slicing pizzas is a "rocker" knife. Any one that has been to a pizza shop will have seen a rocker (or banana) knife in use. If you haven’t got one use a large carving knife and slice your pizza using a rocking or downwards motion-don’t carve it.
Voilá
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