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Chicken Pesto Pizza

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Super quick and easy chicken pesto pizza. Made with a homemade dried tomato pesto sauce and rotisserie chicken to maximize the flavor and easiness!

Ingredients

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  • Pizza base

  • 1 cup rotisserie chicken (shredded) 

  • ½ cup mozzarella balls

  • ½ cup grated parmesan cheese

  • 2-3 sun-dried tomatoes

For the sauce: 

  • 4 sun-dried tomatoes

  • 2 tablespoons olive oil 

  • A big bunch of fresh basil 

  • ½ garlic clove

  • 1/3 cup walnuts 

  • ½ teaspoon salt (or to taste) 

Instructions

  1. Start by prepping the sauce. For this: in a plastic container add the olive oil, walnuts, sun-dried tomatoes, basil leaves, half a garlic clove, and 2 tablespoons worth of parmesan cheese. Process until a thick sauce is formed. Taste and in case it needs it add a bit of salt to it, or more parmesan cheese. Set aside. 

  2. Spread a good portion of the sauce into the pizza base and top it up with the shredded chicken, some mini mozzarella balls, a few more slices of sun-dried tomato, and a generous amount of parmesan cheese. 

  3. Cook in the oven (preheated) for 12 minutes at 200 C/ 392 F or in the Air fryer basket at the same temperature and time. 

Notes

If your Sun-dried tomatoes are a bit too dry, hydrate them by soaking them in warm water for 10 minutes. 

For this pizza, you can also use regular basil pesto, and of course, store-bought too, but fresh pesto takes minutes to make, and it really makes a delicious difference. 

Add some shredded chicken or rotisserie chicken or leave it vegetarian and add a bit more of the sun-dried tomatoes and cheese.

Find it online: https://livelytable.com/chicken-pesto-pizza/