Peri Peri Chicken Pizzas with Spinach Salad

Peri Peri Chicken Pizzas with Spinach Salad

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 4-5
This dish most recently appeared in My Family (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, May 7, 2017.

A quick and tasty midweek meal.


Ingredients

PERI PERI CHICKEN PIZZAS

  • 400g chicken thighs
  • 2 teaspoons chicken spice mix
  • 3 wholemeal pizza bases
  • 210g pizza sauce
  • 1½ cups grated cheese
  • ½ punnet cherry tomatoes
  • 1 courgette
  • ½ capsicum

PERI PERI TOPPING

  • 2 tablespoons peri peri sauce
  • 2 teaspoons mayonnaise

SPINACH SALAD

  • ¼ teaspoon mustard (e.g. Dijon, wholegrain)
  • 1½ teaspoons olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon vinegar (e.g. red wine, white wine)
  • ¼ teaspoon maple syrup or runny honey
  • 1/3 bag baby spinach leaves
  • ½ punnet cherry tomatoes
  • ½ capsicum

Steps

  1. oven to 220°C. Preheat two oven trays (or pizza stones if you have them).
  2. Pat chicken dry with paper towels, cut into 1cm-thick strips and sprinkle with chicken spice mix to coat. Heat a drizzle of oil in a large fry-pan on high heat and cook chicken for about 1 minute each side, until golden but not cooked through yet (chicken will finish cooking in step 3). Set aside.
  3. Cut first measure of cherry tomatoes in half; peel courgette into long, thin ribbons; remove core and seeds from capsicum and thinly slice first measure. Lay two sheets of baking paper on a bench. Cut one pizza base in half and place one and a half bases on each sheet of paper.
  4. Evenly spread pizza sauce over bases and sprinkle with cheese. Top with chicken and chopped veggies. Carefully lift baking paper with pizzas on top and place on preheated oven trays (or pizza stones), then slide baking paper away (use a fish slice to help with this).
  5. Cook pizzas for 10-12 minutes, until cheese is melted and pizzas are golden. Swap trays half way through cooking to ensure even cooking. In a small bowl mix peri peri sauce and mayonnaise. Once pizzas have finished cooking, drizzle over peri peri topping and season with salt and pepper.
  6. While pizzas cook, whisk mustard, oil, vinegar and maple syrup/honey together in a large bowl. Thinly slice spinach; cut remaining cherry tomatoes in half; thinly slice remaining capsicum. Add all to bowl with dressing and toss to combine. Season with salt and pepper.
  7. slice each peri peri chicken pizza into 6-8 pieces and divide between plates. Serve spinach salad on the side.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2438 kj
583 kcal
Protein 32.3g
Carbohydrate 49.0g
Fat 27.8g