Buffalo chicken pizza is one food we agree on in our house.
And as you can imagine, Mr. How Sweet loves it since it has chicken – his sweet elixir of life.
When it comes to pizzas, I rarely make the same thing twice. I throw whatever I have on them… except veggies obviously. I mean, I want to enjoy my pizza. Not eat rabbit food on it.
What you can always find on my pizzas is loads of cheese. I bet you’re shocked at that one.
I start with my favorite part – adding a ranch + blue cheese + buffalo wing sauce as a “sauce” for the pizza. This adds a ton of flavor and I don’t have to use my nemesis – tomato sauce.
Next goes on some cheese, and then the chicken.
If there is cheese that has somehow not made it into my mouth, more goes on top.
Next comes a big drizzle of buffalo wing sauce, to spice things up. And then I add gorgonzola on top. I don’t tell Mr. How Sweet. He eats it anyway.
I’m sneaky like that.
Easy Buffalo Chicken Pizza
dough:
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon dry active yeast
1 tablespoon honey
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup lukewarm water
Mix flour, salt and yeast in a large bowl. Make a well in the center and add water, oil and honey, and stir to form a ball. Finish bringing together with hands and knead for a minute or too. Place in lightly oiled bowl and cover, letting rise for 2-3 hours.
Remove from bowl and punch down. Place back in the bowl and let rise for another 30 minutes.
Dough should be ready for use.
pizza:
1/4 cup buffalo wing sauce
1/4 cup blue cheese dressing
1/4 cup ranch dressing
10 ounces chicken, shredded
1 cup shredded, smoked cheddar cheese
1 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
1/2 cup parmesan cheese
1/4 cup crumbled gorgonzola
buffalo wing sauce for drizzling
Preheat over to 375.
Roll out pizza dough so it fits a pan – I use with a square baking sheet or 10-inch round pan. In a bowl, mix buffalo wing sauce, blue cheese and ranch. Spread over dough as a sauce. Top with 1/2 cup each of cheddar and jack cheeses. Add chicken on top, then remaining cheeses including parmesan. Drizzle liberally with buffalo wing sauce. Add crumbled gorgonzola on top.
Bake for 20-25 minutes.
The final step is to devour it. Or in my case, battle my husband for the final piece.
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Wow the outcome looks perfect- the cheese is browned to perfection. Josh loves anything buffalo chicken. Nice work chicky
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The cheese looks amazing melted. There’s a little typo in the title by the way, not to be nitpicky but… :P
Wei-Wei
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Jessica — August 6th, 2010 @ 4:57 am
What is the typo??
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Wei-Wei — August 6th, 2010 @ 8:25 am
I don’t know if I was just seeing things, but it looks fine now? It used to say Buffalo Chicken PIzza, with the capital I in the “Pizza”.
Wei-Wei
We love doing different types of pizzas here too! Love the hot sauce on this. Well, let’s be honest…I love hot sauce! It looks delicious! Have a great Friday!!!
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This looks great. I’ve never had a buffalo chicken pizza but I hear great things…how can it be bad?! This looks like an easy enough recipe to get me started! Thanks!
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This looks delicious! My husband would love this!! Is it weird that we fight about ranch dressing constantly? I’m anti-ranch but I think I’d concede for this recipe.
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I LOVE buffalo chicken pizza. It’s one of my favorite dinners to make, especially when football season starts. :-)
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Yum, I think Buffalo Chicken Pizza might be my favorite kind of pizza. I love spicy, hot hot hot!!!!! :)
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That looks so wonderful….
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This looks like it’s man-friendly and cowgirl friendly too! It’s so hard to keep the manly meat-and-potatoes cowboy in my house happy, since I have vegetarian tendencies.
Thanks for sharing :)
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yum yum yum! I used to use bbq sauce as the ‘tomato’ sauce and it kind of made me feel sick. I can’t wait to try your sauce mixture…that sounds so much better than my previous attempts.
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Um, yum. :) This would go really well with my tomato dressing.
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i love buffalo chicken pizza! i don’t make it that often b/c the hubby isn’t a huge fan…he’d rather just eat his weight in the wings instead :)
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I never thought about mixing the wing sauce, bleu cheese, and ranch together, but that’s a great idea. I was recently at a restaurant where they made wings with ranch and buffalo sauce mixed together – great idea, and even better for pizza (my favorite food)!
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That looks so professionally done — impressive! And very very tasty looking!
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That last picture with the cheese and melty and everything… Be still my heart!
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OMG that looks so good!
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I have often dreamed up this pizza but have never made it! I need to now…yours looks so good!
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a staple in our house too, but hubby hates it which is awesome–more for me. i love leftovers cold.
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The final product is perfect!!!! What a great recipe!
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Honey in the pizza dough is such a brilliant idea!
The boy has been dropping some hints about buffalo chicken pizza lately so maybe I should act on his request and cook this up!
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This looks so good! I love buffalo chicken pizza!
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Hey, is that you in my Whirl newsletter? (pause for scroll to profile pic) It is totally you. Super cute dress!! What event was that, and what’s that blue drink?
p.s. Wei-Wei is right – the title of this page in the browser is Buffalo Chicken PIzza.
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Girl I never eat pizza. I think I am the only one. no cheese, no gluten, no meat for me. So yeah, i do miss pizza with pineapple and hot peppers. That was how i used to eat it when i was a kid. The gluten in pizza just kills me for about…a month. Ugh.
Ok have a great weekend hon and hope that your week was fabulous!!!!!!
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This looks awesome! Thanks for posting.
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i have never had buffalo chicken pizza! that looks delicious and beautiful! I would love to have a bite :) just a bite though hehe
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Hey now, don’t dis veggies on pizza! They may not be as amazingly decadent as buffalo chicken as a topping, but when you get some nicely caramelized onion and melt-in-your-mouth tomato… How sweet THAT is!
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Oh. My. Word.
That looks amazing. I want that RIGHT NOW. I guess I’ll have to wait til dinner tomorrow night. Or maybe lunch. Yeah. Lunch!
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I LOVE pizza these days! and anything with buffalo sauce.. i die! YUM Jess!!
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I’ve never made a Buffalo chicken pizza, but have wanted to for awhile. That looks amazing. Next time I make homemade pizza, I’m making it Buffalo! :)
Jenn
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Love, love, love buffalo chicken pizza–I think it almost takes my number one spot for fav pizza combo.
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I love buffalo flavored things.. my mom recently bought buffalo flavored popcorn! Sounds amazing right?
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looks so tasty!
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This looks fabulous Jessica!
Glad you shared the recipe for the dough!
Taking my first HOT yoga class tomorrow! ;o)
ENjoyed following your trip on twitter!
xo
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Why is cheese SO good?
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I love making pizza, and I always try and use something other than tomato sauce on it. Im just not a big fan of tomato sauce. This is SUCH a good idea!
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My boyfriend would absolutely DIE for this!! I better make it for him before he discovers other girls making it for their men :)
It looks awesome!!
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My bf would looove this. He’s not a gorgonzola fan either…how do you sneak it on there without Mr. Sweet being able to taste it??
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OMG…cheese…I LOVE that you don’t skimp on the most important ingredient for pizza! I love the base you used, too!
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Just found your blog from a link on Oh She Glows! I also love cheese! :)
Never thought of using buffalo sauce for pizza! Ill be trying that out next!
Thanks for the great idea!
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I’ve been craving pizza and thrilled to see a whole wheat dough! Trying!
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Buffalo pizza! I’m going to try this tonight! Yum!!!
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My hubby loves buffalo chicken anything! This is one that is worth a try and your “sauce” is a nice touch.
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Okay – I challenge anyone who thinks they like pizza more than me ;)…this is STELLAR and YES – finally!!! – someone in the blogsosphere who loads their ‘zza with cheese like me! :)
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Every time I try to be sneaky and add blue cheese to our pizzas my boyfriend can sniff it from the livingroom :D
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Gorgeous!! This looks amazing. I love the sauce!!
Amanda
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I made this on the weekend but the recipe didn’t say how much water to add.. So I just added a cup.. My dough didn’t rise.. but other than that it was delicious! :)
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Jessica — August 10th, 2010 @ 9:30 am
So sorry! Fixed it!
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Monique — August 10th, 2010 @ 9:34 am
Is it terrible that I want to make it again? But with Bacon.. and chocolate.. haha just kidding.. maybe.. thanks for the quick fix Jessica! :)
This pizza looks great! I know it would be a big hit in my house… I think I might have to make it for our next pizza and movie night with friends!
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Hey, there – I have been a reader of your blog for a long time. I just made this buffalo chicken pizza last night and it was INCREDIBLE!!! And I’m a Buffalo aficionado, so that’s saying something. I blogged about it, but don’t know how to do a “link back” to post here on your comments, but wanted to let you know. :-) I did post a link on my blog back here to your blog for this recipe, and gave you credit, and encouraged them to come check out your site! :-)
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I made this pizza with my boyfriend this weekend….it was AMAZING!!! The cheese combo is restaurant quality for sure!
Thanks for the GREAT (& guy-friendly!) recipes – Keep ‘em coming…from one Pittsburgher to another!
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I don’t cook. Ever. But I always browse your site and fantasize about producing the deliciousness. And when I saw this I gave it a shot anyways since it looked so damn good, but not without giving my boyfriend a disclaimer.
We were completely blown away by how amazing it was! I followed this recipe to a T, and it tasted AWESOME. Thank you! I am currently writing down some others to try out. ;)
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Jessica — October 20th, 2011 @ 8:10 am
So glad you liked it!
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