Pollo ad astra pizza

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Our take on Pizza express' Pollo Ad Astra Romano

Loosely based on this gusto recipe.

Produce a base ready for the final stage of cooking from Pizza base. Serves 2.

Ingredients

Cajun dressing for chicken

• 5ml olive oil.
• 1¼ml dried chilli flakes.
• 1¼ml dried thyme.
• 2½ml dried oregano.
• 1¼ml ground turmeric.
• 2½ml smoked paprika.

Chicken and baked peppers

• 1 garlic cloves.
• 1 British chicken breast portions.
• 5ml olive oil.
• ½ sweet pointed pepper, cubed, pre-baked.

The rest

• 60g mozzarella.
• 30ml canned finely chopped tomatoes.
• ½ red onion, finely sliced.

Directions

For the shredded chicken with raw chicken

1. Preheat fan oven to 200°C - to cook the chicken.
2. Mix Cajun dressing and split into two portions. Save one for later.
3. With the first Cajun dressing portion, add a glove of chopped garlic.
4. Drizzle olive oil over chicken and rub in Cajun dressing and garlic.
5. Bake coated chicken and chopped pepper for 15 minutes.
6. Now shred the chicken for the pizza.

For the shredded chicken with pre-cooked chicken

Because we're not "baking the chicken" a second time, we are going to bloom half of the herbs and spices, along with all the garlic. We're also going to get the pepper lightly cooked for the pizza.

1. Mix Cajun dressing minus the tumeric and paprika, and split into two portions. Save one for later.
2. Add half of the herbs and spices and the garlic, minus the tumeric and smoked paprika into a ramekin with the 5ml of olive oil from the #Cajun dressing for chicken ingredients.
3. Heat for 10 seconds on high in the 1000W microwave.
4. Stir in half the tumeric to the half being bloomed, and do for another 10 seconds.
5. Stir in half the smoked paprika to the bloomed half, and rub that mixture over some pre-coooked chicken, then tear it up.
6. Lightly toss the half pepper in the oil from #Chicken and baked peppers and cook at 600W in the microwave for 3 minutes 30 seconds.

The pizza itself

1. Preheat oven to 220°C - if possible use the "pizza setting".
2. Spread tomato over pizza base (which may be fresh or frozen).
3. Add the rest of the ingredients and saved "rub"
4. With the topping applied, (whether frozen or not), cook for 13 minutes.

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