This Barbecue Hen Pizza Braid is simple to make with only a few components and has all of the tasty flavors of its pizza namesake. I really like how spectacular the completed braid seems, you’d by no means guess it’s so easy to make! You’ll use a pre-made pizza crust and stuff it with cooked rooster and crimson onion smothered in tasty barbecue sauce and melty Mozzarella cheese. This Barbecue Hen Pizza Braid makes a scrumptious dinner when paired with a facet salad, however it’s additionally enjoyable to serve at a celebration or whereas watching sports activities, because it’s simple to seize a slice. The braid slices eat like a sandwich making it good finger meals, and I really like having a slice of the leftovers for lunch the subsequent day! Every satisfying (two slice) serving of this recipe is simply 318 energy or 8 WW Factors on Weight Watchers. To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and observe it within the WW app, click on right here!
Ingredient Notes
- Shredded Hen: If I want cooked shredded rooster for a recipe, I nearly all the time throw some rooster breasts in my gradual cooker with slightly water. It’s really easy and hands-off and the rooster falls aside with ease. I really made a submit about it if you would like extra particular directions about making shredded rooster in your gradual cooker! You would additionally bake, poach, or stress cook dinner your rooster, or simply shred the breasts from a store-bought rotisserie rooster.
- Barbecue Sauce: I nearly all the time use Stubbs Authentic barbecue sauce in my recipes as a result of it tastes nice and is decrease in sugar than a number of different manufacturers. This isn’t sponsored or something, I similar to the sauce. I extremely suggest it! In case you determine to make use of one other barbecue sauce, pay attention to the sugar content material in the event you’re monitoring WW Factors of diet data.
- Purple Onion: Purple onion is a staple ingredient on barbecue rooster pizza and provides taste to this recipe! I sauté the onion in slightly olive oil earlier than mixing it with the rooster to verify it’s totally softened within the completed product.
- Cheese: I used Mozzarella cheese on this Barbecue Hen Pizza Braid for the reason that flavors are supposed to mimic the namesake pizza. Nonetheless, I do assume shredded cheddar or different sorts of cheese would style nice on this, so when you’ve got one thing else readily available and wish to use it go for it!
- Pizza Crust: I extremely suggest utilizing the Pillsbury canned pizza crust for this recipe, it’s very simple to make use of. You simply pop the can, unroll the crust, use a rolling pin to unfold it out slightly, and it’s able to go! I’ve not examined this recipe utilizing another pre-made pizza crust dough, however would think about that you possibly can possible substitute one other model.
Extra Tasty, Lightened-Up Hen Recipes
In search of easier and flavorful lightened-up meals utilizing rooster? Try my Skillet Hen and Mushrooms in Gravy, Hen Pot Pasta, Pimento Cheese Stuffed Hen, Tuscan Olive Hen, Buffalo Hen Braid, Crispy Cheddar Hen with Cream Sauce, Barbecue Bacon Wrapped Hen Tenders, Bubble Up BBQ Hen and Beans Bake, Fiesta Stuffed Hen, Cream Cheese Stuffed All the things Hen, Tacky Bacon BBQ Hen, and so many extra within the Hen part of my recipe index!
Barbecue Hen Pizza Braid
This Barbecue Hen Pizza Braid is simple to make with the tasty flavors of its pizza namesake!
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- ⅓ cup thinly sliced crimson onion
- 10 oz cooked boneless, skinless rooster breast, shredded
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 1 cup barbecue sauce, I Used Stubbs Authentic
- 1 (13.8 oz) can Pillsbury Traditional Pizza Crust dough
- 2 oz shredded 2% milk Mozzarella cheese
- 1 egg
- 1 tablespoon water
-
Preheat the oven to 375 levels.
-
Drizzle the olive oil right into a sauté pan or skillet and produce to medium warmth. Add the sliced onion and cook dinner, stirring often, for 3-4 minutes till softened. Add the shredded rooster, salt, pepper, and barbecue sauce and stir collectively till effectively mixed. Prepare dinner one other 2-3 minutes, stirring often, till heated by means of.
-
Unroll the pizza dough onto a bit of parchment paper on prime of a slicing board and roll the dough to be 10”x14.” Utilizing a pizza cutter or a pointy knife, make cuts up one of many longer sides of the dough, about 1 inch aside and about 3 inches lengthy (into the middle). Mirror these cuts on the other lengthy facet of the dough.
-
Unfold the barbecue rooster combination down the middle of the dough, with the reduce items on both facet. Sprinkle the shredded mozzarella cheese excessive of the rooster. Beginning at one finish, fold a strip of the sliced dough on the facet diagonally over the middle components. Fold the strip throughout from it over that strip in a criss-cross and repeat, alternating sides, till the strips of dough are overlaying the middle in a braided sample.
-
Crack the egg right into a small bowl and add the tablespoon of water. Use a fork to beat them collectively to kind an egg wash. Use a pastry brush to color the egg wash everywhere in the prime of the braided crust and discard the remaining egg wash.
-
Switch the parchment paper with the braid onto a baking sheet and bake within the oven for 20-24 minutes till the dough is golden. Slice into 12 equal items and serve (a serving is 2 items).
WW Factors per (2 slice) serving: 8 (SP calculated utilizing the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Diet Info per (2 slice) serving:
318 energy, 44 g carbs, 11 g sugars, 6 g fats, 1 g saturated fats, 23 g protein, 3 g fiber, 425 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com)
Weight Watchers Factors Plus:
8 per (2 slice) serving (PP calculated utilizing a Weight Watchers model PointsPlus calculator and the diet data beneath)