Restaurant Recipes
California Pizza Kitchen Jamaican Jerk Chicken Pizza
Yield: 3 (9 inch) pizzas
Ingredients
Jerk Chicken Pieces
- 1/2 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoons jerk seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Caribbean Sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon cold water
- 1/2 teaspoon Wondra Flour
- 1/2 cup sweet chili sauce
- 3/4 teaspoon jerk seasoning
Pizza
- 8 ounces pizza dough
- 1/2 tablespoon Caribbean Sauce
- 1 cup mozzarella
- 1/4 cup roasted red and yellow peppers
- 1/4 cup sliced yellow onions
- 1/4 cup crispy bacon
- 13 to 15 pieces Jerk Chicken (3/4-inch)
- Sprinkling of additional mozzarella
- 1 tablespoon chopped green scallions
Instructions
Jerk Chicken Pieces
- Heat grill to 400 degrees F.
- In a clean mixing bowl, thoroughly mix the Jerk seasoning and cayenne pepper and set aside.
- Trim all fat from chicken breasts.
- Line a cutting board with plastic wrap and place chicken breasts skin side up on the plastic wrapped cutting board.
- Cover chicken breasts with an additional layer of plastic wrap.
- Use a mallet to pound the thick side of the breast to 1/2 inch. The breasts should be 1/2 inch thick. DO NOT OVER-POUND.
- Coat chicken breasts with olive oil in mixing bowl.
- Place oil-coated chicken breasts on a sheet pan with skin side up.
- Using your fingers, sprinkle half of the jerk seasoning and cayenne pepper mix over one side of the breasts.
- Turn breast over and with your fingers sprinkle the remaining of jerk seasoning and cayenne pepper mix over the other side of all breasts.
- Place the seasoned side of the breasts on a 400 degrees F grill. Grill at a diagonal to the vertical grooves.
- After 2 minutes rotate the breasts 45 degrees to produce diamond shaped grill marks. Continue grilling this same side for approximately 2 minutes longer (or until the outer edges begin to turn from pink to white and opaque).
- Turn the breasts over and grill for approximately 2 minutes.
- Rotate the breasts 45 degrees and grill for about 2 minutes more. The breasts must reach an internal temperature of 165 degrees F.
- Transfer the chicken breasts to a sheet pan in one well-spaced layer. Refrigerate immediately and chill to 40 degrees F.
- Cut breasts into 3/4 inch pieces.
Caribbean Sauce
- Add water to a mixing bowl.
- Slowly sprinkle flour into water while whisking at the same time. Break up any clumps.
- Add sweet chili sauce and jerk seasoning to flour mixture. Mix thoroughly.
- Add sauce to a nonstick sauté pan and cook over high flame for approximately 5 to 6 minutes. Stir continuously.
- When sauce is thickened transfer to a container and store at room temperature.
Pizza
- Use a spoon to spread the Caribbean sauce to within an inch of the outer edge of a stretched pizza dough.
- Distribute ingredients to within 1/2-inch of the outer edge of the pizza.
- Distribute mozzarella over the Caribbean sauce.
- Distribute roasted peppers over the mozzarella.
- Distribute onions over peppers.
- Distribute bacon over the onions.
- Distribute Jerk Chicken over the bacon.
- Sprinkle additional mozzarella over the entire pizza.
- Garnish with scallions after cooking.
Attribution
Posted by GayleL at Recipe Goldmine 4/7/02 11:12:21 pm
Source: wtvt.com