Cilantro Lime Rooster Pizza

Change up your Friday evening pizza routine with this Cilantro-Lime Rooster Pizza and also you’ll get ALL the compliments. We’ve created a easy mixture of substances that when all is claimed and sliced, brings pizza to a degree you by no means realized you needed. We’ve a love affair with cilantro and lime. We’ll eat cilantro and lime in a field or with a fox, right here or there, just about wherever! We adore it a lot we’re prepared to go all Dr. Seuss up in right here. We even have a separate love affair with pizza. Let’s be actual, we’ve got all of the amorous affairs in the case of meals. It’s due to these amorous affairs that we united two of our loves into this Cilantro-Lime Rooster Pizza. The result’s an particularly tasty dish. Dr. Seuss, eat your coronary heart out.

Hold altering Friday nights, or any evening, with a couple of of our different pizza combos like Pizza Quesadillas, Blackberry Basil Ricotta Pizza, or Greek Pizza.

Why Our Recipe

A fast mix of cilantro, lime, and inexperienced chiles kinds the bottom of the sauce and brings all the flavour.
High with shredded or diced hen, mozzarella, and candy onion.
Make it since you gained’t be sorry.

A close up of a pizza slicer cutting a line through the cilantro lime pizza.

The perfect pizzas are baked in pizza ovens, and on pizza days we discuss putting in a pizza oven in The Collaboratory. Pizza ovens are insanely scorching (surpassing 800 levels Fahrenheit) so the pizzas bake scorching and quick in a approach that provides you a crispy crust with deliciously melty cheese. Making a restaurant-quality pizza at house continues to be attainable, however you’ve received to know the tips. Permit us to teach you.

Ingredient Notes

An overhead photo of raw pizza dough rolled onto a round baking sheet, surrounded by fresh ingredients and measured dry and wet ingredients.

Pizza Crust: Use your favourite crust or use our refrigerator pizza dough, easy pizza dough, or Italian-style pizza dough.
Cilantro: Substitute with parsley when you’re a kind of who style cleaning soap when consuming cilantro.
Inexperienced Chiles: No want to empty the can. You need to use delicate, medium, or scorching inexperienced chiles relying in your private choice.
Lime Juice: 2 limes offers you a few quarter cup of juice, and whereas recent will give somewhat extra zing, be happy to substitute for bottled lime juice.
Cumin: Brings somewhat Tex-Mex vibe.
Chili Powder: Use high quality chili powder as they aren’t all the identical.
Crushed Pink Pepper Flakes: A approach to management the spice degree. Our recipe is a medium warmth.
Rooster Breast: Use leftover hen, rotisserie hen, or cook dinner recent hen, then cube or shred it.
Mozzarella: The perfect pizza cheese.
Candy Onion: Use Vidalia, Maui, or Walla Walla onions.

Cooking Time

Whether or not you’re utilizing a pizza stone, a pizza pan, or perhaps a fancy pizza oven, the cooking time will all the time fluctuate barely.

Prepare dinner till the cheese begins to brown. Don’t fear concerning the crust beneath burning. Go. By. The. Cheese. When the cheese begins to bubble and brown, you may have reached the purpose of deliciousness.

A close up of the top of the cilantro lime pizza, with a cut piece ready to be pulled out.

Storage and Reheating Directions

Refrigerate leftovers in an hermetic container for as much as 3 days.

Reheat on the stovetop by inserting a slice in a skillet on medium-low (no oil), cowl with a lid or aluminum foil, and wait till the cheese is freshly melted.

Reheat within the air fryer by inserting a slice within the air fryer basket. Set the temperature to 350 levels and air fry 2 minutes.