Hiya. I love this chicken alfredo pizza.
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This pizza is delicious! I was looking for something that would satisfy my pizza craving minus all of the grease and calories. This is a true success. Great recipe!
Jenn
If it weren’t for this whole wheat crust, creamy cauliflower sauce, and chicken cheese combo topping, this would be the longest Friday ever.
It’s a regular school day, but just to be dramatic for a moment, there is no air conditioning at school. Translation: I will sweat through my shirt by 7:30 am.
And after the regular school day there’s going to be a school program. Followed by a meeting, followed by “duty” (dinner and bedtime routine with the kids so house parents can have some much needed time off) and guess who decided to also plan a movie night with the older kids AFTER that jam-packed day? Yep. It was us.
15 hour Friday? Doin’ it. With the help of this superdeliciouspizza.
To be fair, Hotel Translyvannia is pretty cute and I am 100% convinced that these are the nicest kids in the world. So don’t even feel bad for me. More like I feel bad for you that you don’t have this pizza in your mouth right now.
Friday is and always has been a pizza night for me. For my family. For my life. It’s weird to think that I literally haven’t eaten Pizza Hut or Dominos or dare I say, ahem, Little Caesar’s, for almost a year now. That is going to be one cheesy, awesome reunion. Crazy Bread, anyone?
So my Friday pizza thing explains why I spent all this week posting stuff that like, goes on the pizza. That and the fact that it takes a while to do all this stuff. I spread it out over the course of a few days. Starting with the sauce, then the crust, and ending with the finished beauty.
This is not a 30-minute weeknight dinner, unless you have some super speed magic kitchen powers that I don’t know about and if you do, where can I get them? It’s not really hard necessarily, you just need to make a few parts – ok, well, two parts – separately before you’re gonna be able to pop this baby in the oven.
Also noteworthy: I made this pizza a couple of different ways.
See what I mean? It looks like a different pizza. But it’s the SAME, sort of.
This second version that I made had a thinner crust (same dough, just rolled out a little more) and tomatoes and parsley added as toppings.
It was more colorful and more crunchy. But the first one was so good, too with the thick crust and the saucy cheesy simplicity. It was a tie. Bjork and I both loved both versions.
You think this is weird, huh? Okay okay, I get it. Whole wheat crust and cauliflower sauce is not everyone’s thing. Buuuut for those of us who DO like to do the cauliflower sauce whole wheat crust thing, this is a major pizza win.
And the beauty of this is that you can add whatever toppings you’re craving. I’m having visions of a future version of this with a little bit of browned sausage, bacon, roasted red peppers, artichokes? would that be weird? Sometimes I have no food filter.
I brought some of this pizza to my neighbors who have a 3 year old son. He came a-knocking at the door to return the plate a few minutes later, as he usually does, but this time when he gave Bjork the plate he just started, um, sobbing. And he wouldn’t leave.
After a Cebuano – English translation fail, and a super stressful stranger’s kid crying loudly at your door moment, Bjork panicked and gave him some Special K crackers. Obviously. Special K, Bjork? Really?
But it was like magic. He stopped crying and went home even though I’m pretty sure he wanted the cauliflower sauce pizza. We are becoming the strange food neighbors.
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Healthy Chicken Alfredo Pizza
- Total Time: 27 minutes
- Yield: 16 slices 1x
Description
This healthy chicken Alfredo pizza has a whole wheat crust, a creamy cauliflower Alfredo sauce, shredded chicken, and cheese!
Ingredients
- 1 batch whole wheat pizza dough
- 4 cups creamy cauliflower sauce
- 2 large chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
- 1 cup shredded Mozzarella or other cheese
- diced tomatoes
- minced fresh parsley
- Parmesan cheese
- salt and pepper
- olive oil
Instructions
- Prepare the crust. For me, the recipe linked about makes 2 12-inch round pizzas. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Divide the sauce between the two pizzas, spreading about 1 1/2 cups over each unbaked crust. Arrange the chicken evenly over both pizzas and top with a little bit more sauce (about 1/2 cup each). Add the diced tomatoes or any additional toppings. Sprinkle cheese over the two pizzas, about 1/2 cup for each pizza.
- Bake for 12 minutes. Turn on the broiler and continue baking for an additional 3-8 minutes, depending on how browned you want the top/crust to be. I waited until the edges of my chicken started to brown and the outer crust was a little more crispy. Serve immediately topped with parsley, additional salt and pepper, Parmesan cheese, or a drizzle of olive oil.
Notes
The nutrition information is for 1 slice of pizza, out of 16 slices total (8 slices per pizza).
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 12 mins
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: Italian
Keywords: healthy chicken alfredo pizza, chicken alfredo pizza, alfredo pizza
Zero stars. This tasted awful! I love cauliflower, but may not eat it again for a long time. If cauliflower and garlic are all you want for dinner, just steam some cauliflower and bake some garlic cloves in foil for an hour. This recipe left me with two barely edible pizzas, 1/2 quart of leftover broth and 2 cups of extra sauce – this after I used only 4 cups of broth which was
way more than needed to cooj the cauliflower. Very disappointed. My cauliflower hating boyfriend will remember this for years, and I can’t blame him. “Remember that cauliflower pizza?”, he will say. It will be a running joke. To do it over, I would stream the cauliflower, blend it with a cup of broth and some milk, add parsley and chives, maybe, then proceed as usual. That way it would not trash my kitchen and have leftovers I probably can’t use.
This pizza is delicious! I was looking for something that would satisfy my pizza craving minus all of the grease and calories. This is a true success. Great recipe!
Ok, I know I am five years late for this, but I love the creamy cauliflower sauce! Haven’t tried it on pizza, but I love the idea since my partner is allergic to tomatoes and pizza is always a bit of a challenge. We usually just go with sour cream for him, but this is a nice new idea. Thanks! And I love the Cebuano anecdote, having lived in the Philippines myself for a while and not having managed more than “gamay lang” most of the time š cheers, Lara
have you ever made cauliflower base pizza?
go the whole cauli!
honest to god, this is the most perfect pizza crust ever!! i made it entirely in the mixer because i fail at kneading. but, wow. gaaah, i could eat it alone!
and the version with tomato and parsley as add-ins is my fave, especially when it cools down (:
thanks for the recipe!
Love how it turned out…. it tasted sooo delicious thank you for the recipe!!!
http://borrowidea.blogspot.com/2013/11/chicken-and-cauliflower-alfredo-pizza.html
Another pizza crazy family – I love it! We’re big pizza fans in our house. There’s such an endless variety of ingredients you can top them with, and yours looks fantastic.
I think online is one of the good option to given perfect information about pizza. Learn how pizza should be served and eaten. Includes information on eating hot or cold as instructions on how the average pizza slice should be held.
Darn it! Now I want this pizza! Well there goes my whole I’m not allowing myself to eat anything but veggies this week! Who was I kidding anyway? This looks gorgeous and I saw your post for the cauliflower sauce earlier last week, which looked amazing. I didn’t think it could get better until I saw the pizza. Anyways, putting this on my to-do list for the week. Eat more pizza.
I LOVE this idea! Your pizzas look amazing.
Thanks Sarah!
I just discovered your blog and I am slightly obsessed..ok I’m just plain super obsessed. I made this pizza yesterday and ate all of it..in one day…yikes. But really if I made it again I can’t say I wouldn’t eat the whole thing again, by myself, in one day. It’s true.
Hahaha – thanks Etta! Glad you like it!
i love pizza fridays…well truthfully anyday really…love the another great use for your creamy cauliflower sauce!
oh my gosh this looks so good! i’ll be making this for dinner soon!
This is awesome! Love, love, love the cauliflower sauce! š And I’m a teacher from the Philippines so I totally agree with the whole sweating by 7:30 AM.
Hahah – that’s awesome! Glad I’m not alone! Are you still in school? Most public schools are out for summer, I think?
This looks great, I might try it with my version of the butternut squash alfredo. As always, love the posts and inspiration!
That would be deeelicious!