Cheesy BBQ Chicken Pizzas
with Red Onion & Cilantro
- Wheat
- Milk
Ready to call yourself a pizza aficiona-dough?! With our dough, you will be! You'll stretch and shape the dough into two pies, top with BBQ sauce, seared chicken, sweet red onion, and plenty of melty mozzarella, then bake. Serve these hot, crusty beauties with a final sprinkle of cheddar, cilantro, and a drizzle of BBQ sauce for a perfect weeknight pizza party!
Ingredients
½ cup
Flour
(Contains: Wheat)
2 unit
Pizza Dough
(Contains: Wheat)
¼ ounce
Cilantro
¾ cup
BBQ Sauce
1 unit
Red Onion
10 ounce
Chopped Chicken Breast
½ cup
Cheddar Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
1 cup
Mozzarella Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
Not included in your delivery
Salt
Pepper
Cooking Oil
Olive Oil
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to top position (top and middle positions for 4 servings) and preheat oven to 450 degrees. • Sprinkle 3 TBSP flour over a clean work surface. Remove pizza dough from packaging and place on floured surface. Shape each piece of dough into a ball. TIP: Spray your hands with nonstick cooking spray or dust with flour to prevent sticking. • Evenly sprinkle dough balls with 2 TBSP flour. Cover with a clean kitchen towel and let rest at room temperature for 20 minutes.
• While dough rests, wash and dry produce. • Halve, peel, and dice onion into 1⁄2-inch pieces. Finely chop cilantro.
• Open package of chicken and drain off any excess liquid. • Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add chicken in a single layer; season with salt and pepper. Cook, undisturbed, until browned on one side, 2-4 minutes. Stir and continue to cook until chicken is cooked through, 2-3 minutes more.
• Once dough has rested 20 minutes, line a baking sheet (two baking sheets for 4 servings) with parchment paper. Carefully press and stretch each dough ball into a rough oval shape and place on one side of prepared sheet (you’ll have two dough ovals per baking sheet). TIP: If needed, use a rolling pin to help roll out dough. • Cover dough with a clean kitchen towel and let rest 15 minutes. (This will make stretching the dough into a larger shape even easier!)
• Once dough has rested 15 minutes, use floured hands to press and stretch dough on baking sheet into larger oval shapes, about 10 inches long and 5-6 inches wide. • Spread each dough oval with one packet of BBQ sauce, leaving a 1-inch border (you’ll use the rest of the BBQ sauce later). Sprinkle with mozzarella, then top with as much chicken and onion as you like. Drizzle or brush edges of dough with olive oil.
• Bake pizzas on top rack until crusts are golden brown and crisp, 14-18 minutes. (For 4 servings, bake on top and middle racks, swapping rack positions halfway through.) • When pizzas are done, immediately sprinkle with cheddar. • Drizzle with remaining BBQ sauce; sprinkle with cilantro. • Slice pizzas as desired. Divide between plates and serve.
Poultry is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 165°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Sep 2026- Flavor: The BBQ chicken, mozzarella, and cheddar combination delivers bold, satisfying flavor — though some found the BBQ sauce a touch too sweet, and a few felt the chicken needed extra seasoning.
- Ease of prep: The double dough-resting process makes this more time-consuming than a typical weeknight meal; budget at least an hour from start to finish.
- Suggestions: Toss the chicken in BBQ sauce before adding it to the pizza for deeper flavor throughout; consider pre-cooking the onions to mellow their sharpness. Extend the bake time to around 22 minutes for a crispier crust, and stretch the dough as thin as possible — it's the trickiest part but worth the effort.
- Leftovers: One pizza easily fed two adults, and leftovers reheated well for lunch the next day.
- Dough: The fresh pizza dough earned enthusiastic praise for its light, fluffy texture — many said it was the best part of the whole pizza 🎉.
- Cilantro: Opinion on cilantro was split; some loved it as a fresh finishing touch, others felt it clashed with the BBQ flavor profile — leave it off if you're not a fan.
Reviews from our home cooks
LOVED this. The flavor was delicious and the recipe was very easy to follow. The portion size was more than what I normally expect from a HelloFresh meal which was also a plus. I did slightly change how I cut the onion (thin slices rather than chopped), but other than that, we really enjoyed this meal.
So yummy! Pizza was fluffy and light. One suggestion is to have customers toss chicken in bbq sauce before adding to pizza (we did) and it was great, there was definitely enough sauce to do it with what was provided. We used 2 packs of sauce for the chicken, 3 for all the pizza and used the last one to drizzle.
The dough for this pizza was incredible. If I could just eat the dough, I would. Please tell me where to get this dough. Or how to make it. It was lighter and fluffier than any homemade pizza dough I've ever made--it was more the consistency and flavor of yeast rolls than the homemade pizza dough I've made in the past.
Difficulty level said it was hard but it was one of the easier recipes to make. Not a lot of prep except preparing the dough balls (these are premade but you need to work into a ball and let sit). Delicious
The chopped chicken breast is not a good ingredient. The chicken pieces are wildly different sizes, and much of the chicken is unusable because it is cut into tiny bits. I would much prefer to cut up a whole chicken breast so that I can at least use all of it. I had to throw out a bunch of chicken mess. This recipe also needs a little more in its flavor. More cilantro, another veggie, or something. It was very one note.
The dough does not want to stretch into shape. It needs more rest time than the recipe states. Pre-cooking the onions would give them a less sharp flavor.
This is one of my favorite pizza combos in the world, and now it's one of my favorites of all time. Next time I'm adding a salad from marketplace to my order!
Used a different BBQ sauce I had at home which had more heat than the HF BBQ sauce, turned out really well
One onion was more than enough. It was so easy. The dough was delicious!!
A new favorite! We really enjoyed this! Easy to make & really tasty!! We'd order again for sure.
