# BBQ Chicken Flatbread Pizza

BBQ Chicken Flatbread Pizza — a easy recipe with 6 main ingredients, ready in about 25 min and serving 2. Check which of its ingredients are on sale at grocery stores near you.

- **Time:** 25 min
- **Serves:** 2
- **Difficulty:** easy
- **Tags:** dinner, chicken, quick, american
- **Source:** https://savingrecipes.com/recipes/bbq-chicken-pizza

## Ingredients

- 2 flatbreads or naan
- 1 cup cooked chicken
- BBQ sauce
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella
- 1/2 red onion
- Fresh cilantro

## Instructions

1. Heat oven to 450°F. Spread flatbreads with BBQ sauce.
2. Top with chicken tossed in more sauce, mozzarella, and thin red onion.
3. Bake 8–10 min until bubbling; shower with cilantro.

## Tips

- 450°F and a preheated tray or stone. Flatbread on a cold tray goes soft underneath before the top browns.
- Sauce it lightly. BBQ sauce is wetter and sweeter than tomato sauce — too much and the base never crisps and the whole thing turns cloying.
- Slice the red onion paper-thin and add it raw. Eight minutes is just enough to lose the harshness while keeping some bite.

## Substitutions

- **Flatbread or naan:** Pitta, tortillas (very thin and crisp, 5 minutes), or pizza dough. Naan gives the best chew.
- **Cooked chicken:** Rotisserie chicken is the intended shortcut. Leftover roast chicken, or chickpeas tossed in BBQ sauce for vegetarian.
- **Mozzarella:** Mozzarella with smoked gouda is the classic version of this pizza. Cheddar works but is greasier.
- **Cilantro:** Spring onion, or leave it off — roughly one in seven people taste cilantro as soapy, which is a real genetic difference rather than fussiness.

## Storage & reheating

Best straight from the oven. Leftovers keep 2 days and reheat well in a dry skillet or air fryer at 350°F for 5 minutes; the microwave makes the base leathery.

## Common questions

### Why is my flatbread soggy in the middle?

Too much sauce, or a cold baking surface. Preheat the tray, and spread the sauce thin enough to see the bread through it.

### Can I use raw chicken?

Not on a 10-minute bake — it won't cook through safely. Cook and shred it first, which is why the recipe assumes cooked chicken.

### What BBQ sauce works best?

Something on the tangier side. Very sweet sauces burn at 450°F and can taste cloying against the cheese.


_Photo: Kim Scarborough from Chicago, IL — CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barbecued_Chicken_with_Pizza_(Sonoma_Chicken_Coop)_(147979733).jpg)_