roast chicken pizza

I’m a huge fan of pizza as I’ve said before. It’s a great way of using up leftovers, which is exactly what the one above is – *leftovers pizza*

what you need:

– dough

• 400g bread flour
• 3/4 tsp dried yeast
• 1 tbs olive oil
• good fat pinch of salt
• approx. 200ml of tepid water

– tomato sauce base

• I used leftover spicy tomato lentil soup which I’d blended & frozen in pizza base sized portions

– the topping

• leftover roast chicken
• chargrilled peppers from a jar
• 250g mozzarella
• dried oregano
• pea shoots

what to do:

• put the flour, yeast, salt, olive oil into a large bowl and tip in the water drop at a time to mix the ingredients by hand into a stiff dough – turn the dough onto a work surface and knead for 5 minutes.
• transfer back into the bowl and cover in cling film put the bowl into a warm place and leave for around an hour.

to assemble…

• tip out your dough onto a work surface and split into two equal portions
• roll the dough out thinly to the shape of your baking tray
• transfer to a baking tray
• top with the sauce, peppers and torn strips of mozzarella, drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with oregano
• bake until the cheese in golden and the bread risen
• once out of the oven – top with shredded roast chicken and sprinkle with pea shoots

to serve:

This is nice with potato wedges and a rather tasty little dish of coleslaw

Of course as this is leftovers pizza just use whatever you have – roast beef & rocket, roast pork & chinese leaves….

Perfect Monday lunch or dinner.