Grilled BBQ Chicken Pizza made with a 10 minute crust – perfect for hot summer nights and busy schedules!
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I don’t know about you but when the summer hits we fire up the grill and keep that baby going several nights a week. Nothing tastes better than food straight from the grill during the hot summer months in my opinion. And, of course, my air conditioner appreciates the break as does my electricity bill 🙂 One dinner that we love to make is grilled pizza. Honestly, grilled pizza is about the quickest meal you can make on the grill – even faster than hot dogs – and it’s so versatile! I like to prep a number of ingredients so everyone gets to customize their pizza just the way they like it.
Of course, sometimes this mama likes to keep it simple and just make up a pizza that I know everyone will love and this Grilled BBQ Chicken Pizza is just that. I make this incredibly easy on myself using Tyson grilled chicken strips (you could easily substitute a Rotisserie chicken) and I bake up the bacon in advance. The pizza crust comes together in under ten minutes. Did you catch that? 10 MINUTES people. And it’s awesome. Like really, really awesome. You’re going love it – promise!
So I’m going to tell you the trick to successfully grilling pizzas. Be prepared. Have all of your ingredients ready to go in little bowls or plates. If you are making them for a party, prep all the ingredients, and have people fill their own bowl full of the ingredients they want on their pizza. It literally takes 3-4 minutes for the pizza to be perfectly cooked on one side. You don’t want to be running back into the kitchen because you forgot the pizza sauce 🙂 Make sure to remove the crusts carefully and then add the toppings. Throw the pizzas back in for another 3 minutes and bam! Dinner is served!
I used Fleischmann’s Pizza Crust Yeast for my pizza dough. It is the first and only yeast designed specifically for quick and easy pizza crusts. With no rise time needed I can have my pizzas on the grill before Reece and Bryce start with the “What’s for dinner?” routine. You’re going to love how easy the dough is to shape and with the dough relaxers in Fleischmann’s Pizza Crust Yeast you won’t need to be re-stretching your dough at the grill.
Grilled BBQ Chicken Pizza with 10 Minute Pizza Crust
Ingredients
Crust
- 3-1/2 to 4 cups all-purpose flour
- .25 oz Fleischmann's® Pizza Crust Yeast 1 envelope
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 1/3 cups very warm water 120 to 130°F
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- Additional flour for rolling
- Additional oil for grilling
Toppings
- 1/2 cup barbecue sauce
- 1/4 cup red onion chopped
- 2 cups chicken cooked and cubed
- 8 strips bacon cooked and crumbled
- 1 to 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup ranch dressing
- 2 tbsp chopped fresh cilantro or chopped green onion
Instructions
- Start charcoal fire or preheat gas grill to medium-high heat.
- Combine 2 cups flour, yeast, sugar and salt in a large bowl.
- Add very warm water and oil; mix until well blended. Approximately 1 minute.
- Gradually add enough remaining flour to make a soft dough. Dough should form a ball and will be slightly sticky.
- Knead on a lightly floured surface, adding additional flour if necessary, until smooth and elastic. Approximately 5 minutes. (I use the dough hook on my mixer and it works beautifully. Just continue adding flour as necessary.)
- Divide dough into 6-8 portions.
- Pat or roll dough on a well-floured surface until they reach the size and thickness you desire. You want these pizzas to look rustic. I.e. not perfect.
- Brush both sides of pizza crusts with olive oil.
- Lift each crust carefully with hands and place on grill.
- Cook for 3 to 4 minutes until bottom is lightly browned and top looks done.
- Remove crust from grill and place on a cutting board or baking sheet grilled side up.
- Spread barbecue sauce over crust. Top with onions, chicken, and bacon.
- Evenly sprinkle cheddar cheese over toppings.
- Repeat with remaining pizzas.
- Carefully slide each pizza onto the grill.
- Cook an additional 3 to 4 minutes until bottom of crust is browned and cheese is melted.
- Remove from oven and sprinkle with cilantro or green onions.
- Drizzle ranch over the top of the pizzas if desired and serve immediately.
For the Oven
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
- Prepare pizza as directed and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.
Nutrition
Grilled pizzas are the bomb because they are supposed to look rustic. Don’t even try for that perfect circle – just have fun with it and get the kids involved too! This is supposed to be a fun, stress-free dinner so enjoy yourself!
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Hilmy M. says
Whats is the best grilling method? electric or gas grill.
Charlice Eedu says
One word, AWESOME!
Trish, I like what you have done with this and if I had the means, I would take this right now and feed my tasty buds. I’ll put it up on pinterest too! Thanks.
GoMama247 says
My kids love pizza. I think they will love this too. I will try to make it.
Dave Charles says
Still unbelievable to think that just 10 minutes worthy grilled barbecue chicken pizza! I should try it before my office time. I want to surprise my family people. Love it. Thanks and have a good day!
Oliver BBQ-Guy says
Hey Trish,
10 minute worthy grilled barbecue chicken pizza, this is really awesome! Can’t wait to try this at home. So excited to do something similar with this. Thanks so much for sharing this Trish. Glad that I’ve found your blogs.
Cheers,
Oliver
Oliver BBQ-Guy says
Hey Trish,
This is really awesome! Can’t wait to try this at home. So excited to do something similar with this. Thanks so much for sharing this Trish. Glad that I’ve found your blogs.
Cheers,
Oliver
Véronique says
Thanks Trish, it looks yummy! I can’t do pizza on my grill because I don’t have a proper one at the moment 🙁 Hopefully next year 🙂
Hazel Owens says
My mouth is watering just looking at this article. I hadn’t thought to grill pizza crust before, but it looks delicious. Barbecue chicken is one of my favorite flavors of pizza, so I’ll definitely be trying this recipe out once we get the grill up and running this season. Thanks for the recipe!
John Stewart says
Thanks so much for the recipe on grilled pizzas. For a newcomer like me, what I learnt will not only help me with making grilled pizzas but with many other things in general.
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
You bet John! It’s my favorite way to make pizza 🙂
Mekel says
Thanks so very much for this recipe! Made it last night and it was fantastic! The only thing I did not use was the ranch dressing. Going straight in to our “favorites” section of my recipe binder.
Anne says
I can hardly read your website because each time a video ad starts, it jumps me to that section of the page. From what I can read, this sounds like a great recipe. Just wanted to let you know about the issue in reading the recipe.
Trish - Mom On Timeout says
I am aware of this issue Anne and my ad guy has working hard to get that removed. I haven’t seen it the last couple of days so hopefully we are in the clear. Thanks for letting me know!