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Chicken Florentine Pizza
Chicken Florentine Pizza is a traditional Italian recipe for a classic and simple pizza made from spinach and fried chicken on a base of ricotta and mozzarella cheese. The full recipe is presented here and I hope you enjoy this classic Italian dish of: Chicken Florentine Pizza.
prep time
20 minutes
cook time
20 minutes
Total Time:
40 minutes
Additional Time:
(+60 minutes proving)
Serves:
6–8
Rating: 
Tags : Chicken RecipesFowl RecipesBread RecipesCheese RecipesBaking RecipesItaly Recipes
This is a variant of the classic
Florentine Pizza that combines chicken breasts (rather than the usual hard-boiled eggs) with a spinach topping.
Ingredients:
1 bread
dough pizza base
450g chicken beasts, halved lengthways
1 tbsp garlic oil
1 tbsp
Italian Seasoning
240ml Ricotta cheese (or you can use my
home-made ricotta cheese recipe to prepare your own)
80g Mozzarella cheese, grated
300g fresh spinach, with stalks removed and washed
2 tbsp sun-dried tomatoes, chopped
50g freshly-grated Parmesan cheese
salt and freshly-ground black pepper, to taste
Method:
Heat the oil in a large frying pan then add the chicken and cook for about 10 minutes or until done (when the chicken is no longer pink in the middle and the juices run clear). Season with the Italian seasoning, salt and black pepper then remove from the pan and set aside. Add the washed and drained spinach to the pan and cook until wilted then set aside.
Turn the pizza dough onto a lightly-floured surface and either roll or pull until it's large enough to fit snugly in a lightly-greased 30 x 18cm Swiss roll tin (or other similar rectangular tin) and using your thumb and forefinger pinch the edge of the pizza to create a raised lip. Cover the dough with a kitchen towel and set aside in a warm place to raise for 10 minutes.
Combine the Ricotta and Mozzarella together and spread evenly over the pizza base. Spread the wilted spinach over the cheese mixture. Halve the chicken breasts then cut into strips and scatter over the spinach before adding the tomatoes. Sprinkle the Parmesan cheese over the top.
Place in an oven pre-heated to 200°C and bake for about 18 minutes, or until the edges of the base are golden and crisp. Cut into wedges and serve immediately.
