Bacon and Chicken Pizza (New Zealand)

Bacon and Chicken Pizza (New Zealand)
Bacon and Chicken Pizza (New Zealand)

Bacon and Chicken

This Bacon and Chicken Pizza is loaded with chicken, bacon and cheese. Mushroom and herbs complete the array of flavor. Pizza never tasted so good!

Made with love, this type of pizza enjoys a rare taste, matched with a imaginative scent to enjoy.

Spend the energy to find high quality toppings and complement them with the perfect crust for you to take part in a nice pizza meal.

In the mood for a Meat pizzas with a Tomato sauce? Guess what? You have found it.

Experimenting with pizza toppings is a great idea for a few reasons! First, it allows you to explore new flavor combinations and discover new favorites. Second, it’s a fun way to mix things up and try something different from your usual go-to toppings. Third, experimenting with toppings can help you to be more creative and adventurous with your food choices.

Fourth, it’s a perfect way to add some variety to your diet and to try new ingredients. It can be a great way to incorporate more vegetables or new meats in your diet.

Lastly, experimenting with toppings allows you to personalize your pizza to your taste and make it truly your own. So, whether you’re feeling adventurous or just want to try something new, experimenting with pizza toppings is a great way to shake things up and have some fun with your food!

Pizza in New Zealand

Naples-style pizza is very popular throughout New Zealand, with a crunchy, crispy crust with a selection of toppings that are local from New Zealand, as well as imported Aged Cheeses and Meats.

Take a look at some of the other pizzas from New Zealand here.

Bacon and Chicken Pizza at a glance
Origin New Zealand
Type Meat
Sauce Tomato Sauce

Bacon and Chicken Pizza Recipe

There is a recipe below for you to make a Bacon and Chicken Pizza either in your backyard pizza oven or your usual oven.

Preparation time
Dough 2 hours
Assembly 10 minutes
Baking 12-20 minutes

Bacon and Chicken Pizza Ingredients

Buy enough pizza toppings for the amount of pizzas you plan to make. The pizza sauce and dough ingredients below are designed for 3-4 pizzas, so scale up or down, based on your requirements.

Bacon and Chicken Pizza

Simple Pizza dough

  • 250 ml (1 cup) lukewarm water
  • 2 2/3 cups (400 grams) 00 fine flour
  • 7 grams (2 tsps) dried yeast
  • 1/4 cup (3 tbsp) olive oil
  • 2 tsps salt

Bacon and Chicken Pizza Toppings

Toppings used in this pizza recipe, are;

  • Chicken
  • Bacon
  • Mozzarella
  • Mushroom

Bacon and Chicken pizza recipe

Simple Tomato Pizza Sauce

  • 1 can (15oz/420g) crushed or diced tomatoes
  • 1 small can (6oz/170g) tomato paste
  • Two garlic cloves
  • 1 tbsp dried Italian herbs
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1/4 small brown onion

Want to try a different sauce? See our article on the different types of pizza sauces.

TIP

You can click on any of the tags at the bottom of this page, to find other pizzas besides Bacon and Chicken Pizza, that use that topping.

Homemade pizza dough

Pizza Dough Method

Either make your own pizza dough following the simple steps below, or buy a premade pizza base at your local store.

  1. Whisk the lukewarm water and yeast in a plastic or glass jug. Let the mixture stand for approx. five minutes.
  2. Add salt and flour in a large bowl. Create a hollow well in the middle and gently pour the liquid yeast mixture and oil.
  3. Using dough mixer or hands, gently mix dough until smooth. Place pizza dough on a lightly floured work surface and then knead by hand for five minutes.
  4. Lightly oil a bowl, and place mixture in and cover with plastic wrap. Leave in a warm place to rise until the dough doubles in size.
  5. Pour dough mix out onto a clean, floured surface. Now hand knead gently for another five minutes.
  6. Sprinkle a little flour on the bench before rolling to prevent dough from sticking.
  7. Divide dough mixture into equal sized balls. Hand stretch or roll out the bases to the expected size.

TIP: We have other dough recipes if you would like to try your hand at sourdough, poolish or more.

Simple Tomato Pizza Sauce

Tomato Pizza Sauce Method

Give your homemade pizza that extra special touch by making your own tomato sauce with the recipe outlined below.

  1. Blend all sauce ingredients in a large bowl.
  2. Ensure all ingredients are mixed together well.
  3. Keep mixture sitting for five minutes.
  4. Your sauce is now ready to add to your pizza bases.
  5. Sauce will last up to 3 days in fridge.

To get the desired consistency, if your sauce is too runny, adding some more tomato paste will thicken it up.

Bacon and Chicken recipe

Preparing Bacon and Chicken Pizza

Turn your oven on to 450-500 degrees or more and preheat for at least 30 minutes.

Spread out the dough in a rough circle, on a floured board or surface.

If you are using a baking pan, then create the pizza in that.

Open the sauce container, and start to spread the Tomato Sauce. Spread the Tomato Sauce around the whole base, taking care to leave a gap at edges.

Add the ingredients in size order, from large to small.

Cheese gets added last.

The toppings to add to this pizza are;

  • Chicken
  • Bacon
  • Mozzarella
  • Mushroom

This pizza is great tasting on its own, or why not with other pizzas as well?

Baking time

Put the Bacon and Chicken pizza in the middle of your oven (on a stone if you have one) and set timer for 10 minutes.

After roughly 10 minutes, check on the pizza.

Pizza should be ready within 15 minutes. However, allow it to cook to personal taste.

Meat pizza

About Mushroom

There are thousands of varieties of Mushrooms, with different colors, shapes, and sizes. All of the edible ones are low in calories and fat, and contain modest amounts of fiber and various nutrients.
Mushrooms have been eaten and used as medicine for thousands of years. Button, Oyster, Portobello, Shiitake and Enoki are among the most popular Mushrooms to eat raw or cooked.

Pizza from New Zealand

Pizza Tools

When making Bacon and Chicken Pizza, I always recommend that you use what you have available, without spending lots of money. My basic pizza tool list is…

Measuring Cups

Pizza making is all about precision. Having a set of both dry and wet measuring cups on hand is vital to accurately measure all your ingredients.

Pizza Steel

Very similar to a pizza stone, a pizza steel is made of, you guessed it, steel. It’s a great modern method to heat pizza well in a normal oven.

Rubber Spatula

A quality rubber spatula really helps when it comes to scraping bowls and plates, etc.

 

Mushroom icon

Chicken

The most common type of poultry to eat in the world, is Chicken. Humans have been eating Chicken since around 600BC. It is often prepared by frying, baking, BBQ, grilling and boiling.

The the color of the hen’s earlobes effects the color of the shells on the eggs they produce. Studies have shown that there are more than 33 billion Chickens around the globe. There is scientific proof that Chickens have common ancestry with the Tyrannosaurus rex.

Chicken

Keeping Pizza

Leftovers after the meal? Here are some tips.

Chill in the fridge

You can keep pizza in plastic wrap or a container for up to 3 days in the fridge.

Can you freeze pizza?

You can freeze pizza for up to three months, however I’d suggest consuming it within the first few weeks, ideally.

How to reheat

There are many ways to reheat pizza. We cover seven of them in this article.

 

Meat Pizzas

Keen on seeing more than Bacon and Chicken pizza? We have plenty of other Meat pizza recipes to look at, as well. Enjoy!

 

Pizza making FAQ

Want to know how to make fantastic pizza at home? Here are some helpful answers to the most frequently asked questions.

How long does pizza dough last in the fridge?

Pizza dough will be fine in an air tight container in the fridge fror anywhere up to 5 days.

Can I use bread dough for making pizza?

Sadly no. Bread dough doesn’t have the same consistency and needs that a pizza dough has. If you mean bread flour, yes, many bread flours are fine enough to work for pizza, however I always recommend )) flour instead, which is created for pizza dough making.

What is the order of ingredients when topping a pizza?

The order of ingredients when topping a pizza is typically the pizza sauce, the large ingredients (meat, seafood, vegetables, etc), the smaller ingredients, cheese topping then herbs. If you are using fresh herbs, you may wish to bake the oven then sprinkle them on afterwards, to avoid them browning.

Bacon and Chicken pizza from New Zealand

Have you made Bacon and Chicken Pizza?

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