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A buffalo chicken pizza with shredded chicken, celery, red onion, Monterey Jack cheese, hot sauce, and ranch dressing.
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Buffalo Chicken Pizza

This Buffalo Chicken Pizza features a creamy Buffalo-Ranch sauce, pulled chicken, Monterey Jack cheese, and more. Perfect for the Big Game!
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time30 minutes
Rise Tim2 hours
Total Time2 hours 45 minutes
Course: main, Main Course
Cuisine: American
Servings: 8 Servings
Calories: 593kcal
Author: Marie Porter

Equipment

  • 1 Large Pizza Pan - 16 inch

Ingredients

Crust:

  • 1 ¼ cup Warm Water
  • 2 tablespoon Honey
  • 1 tablespoon Active Dry Yeast
  • 4 cups All-Purpose Flour
  • ½ teaspoon Salt
  • cup + 1 tablespoon Olive Oil

Buffalo Sauce:

  • ½ cup Frank’s Redhot Sauce
  • ½ cup Ranch Dressing
  • 2 teaspoon Cayenne Powder or more to taste
  • 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder

Assembly

  • 2 cups Pulled Chicken
  • 3 cups Shredded Monterrey Jack
  • 3 Ribs Celery Star Trekked (See post)
  • Thinly sliced red onions

Garnish

  • Extra hot sauce if desired
  • Green Onions Sliced

Instructions

Crust:

  • Add honey warm water, stir till well blended. Add yeast and stir again. Allow to sit (somewhere warm!) for 10 minutes.
  • In the bowl of a stand mixer - or a large mixing bowl - measure the flour, ⅓ cup of olive oil, and salt, stir to combine.
  • Add the yeast mixture to the bowl, stir to combine into a loose dough.
  • Dump dough out onto a floured surface, knead until soft and elastic, 5-10 minutes. (OR: mix it in a stand mixer with a dough hook for 5 minutes or so!)
  • Put 1 tablespoon olive oil into a large bowl, add dough, flip over to coat. cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise in a warm place for one hour.
  • After one hour, dough should have doubled in size. Punch dough down and allow to rise for another hour or so.

Buffalo Chicken Pizza Sauce:

  • While dough is raising for the second time, make the sauce:
  • Whisk together hot sauce and ranch dressing. Add the Cayenne and Garlic Powder, whisk well to combine. Taste, add more cayenne and/or garlic powder, if you like.
  • Cover sauce with plastic wrap, chill until ready to use.

Assembly

  • Preheat oven to 400F
  • I like to dump my pizza dough onto a pizza pan that I’ve sprayed with olive oil or cooking spray, then roll in out right in the pan. The dough should be of a relatively even thickness throughout the pan, with a bit pushed up around the sides as an outer crust.
  • Spread about ⅔ cup of the sauce over the prepared pizza crust. Add the remaining sauce to the pulled chicken, toss well to coat.
  • Scatter most of the cheese over the sauced pizza, then scatter sauced chicken over the cheese. Scatter remaining cheese over the chicken.
  • Top with celery and onion slices, as desired.
  • Bake at 400 degrees F for 30-35 minutes.
  • Remove from oven, garnish with additional hot sauce, if desired, as well as some green onion slices. Serve immediately.

Notes

Leftovers.
Once cooled to room temperature, leftover pizza can be wrapped in plastic wrap or transferred to an airtight container and stored in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Best served reheated - we’ll usually microwave a slice for 30 seconds or so, then finish it in the air fryer for a freshly baked taste.

Nutrition

Calories: 593kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 25g | Fat: 30g | Saturated Fat: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g | Monounsaturated Fat: 12g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 66mg | Sodium: 1043mg | Potassium: 276mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 558IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 335mg | Iron: 4mg
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