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sliced homemade chicken ranch pizza with red onion and zucchini with ramekin of ranch dressing and fresh dill
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Garlic Chicken Ranch with Zucchini Pizza

Homemade crust, savory ranch sauce, zucchini, red onion, shredded chicken breast, and plenty of garlic and mozzarella cheese
Prep Time25 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Resting Time for Dough1 hour
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: American, Italian
Keyword: chicken ranch recipe, pizza recipe, zucchini recipes
Servings: 12 slices
Author: Erin
Cost: 3.60

Ingredients

For the Dough

  • 4 ½ cups all purpose flour
  • 1 ¾ cup lukewarm water plus or minus a tablespoon
  • 2 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 12 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon yeast
  • corn meal for dusting

For the Ranch Sauce

  • 1 cup mayonnaise
  • 1 tablespoon milk
  • 1 teaspoon white vinegar
  • ½ teaspoon garlic powder
  • ½ teaspoon onion powder
  • 2 teaspoon fresh or dried chives minced if fresh
  • 1 teaspoon fresh or dried parsley minced if fresh
  • 1 teaspoon fresh or dried dill minced if fresh
  • ½ teaspoon sugar
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • pinch black pepper to taste

Toppings

  • 4 cloves minced garlic
  • 1 tablespoon butter for sauteing garlic
  • 1 ½ cups cooked chicken breast or rotisserie pulled apart into bite size pieces
  • 1 pound mozzarella cheese shredded off block
  • 1 medium zucchini cut into half-moons
  • ½ red onion slivered
  • shredded Parmesan cheese optional, for garnish

Instructions

For the Crust

  • Combine all ingredients by hand, in a standing mixer, or in a bread machine on the dough cycle. Knead for 10 minutes, cover and let rest for 1 hour. (Bread machine dough cycle will do the knead and rest time).
  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  • Once the dough has rested, turn out onto a floured surface. Use finger tips to begin pressing it out into the shape of pan you will be using.
    dough being pressed by finger tips
  • Using fingertips, pull and stretch the dough into a larger, thinner slab.
    hands stretching pizza dough
  • Sprinkle a baking sheet with cornmeal.
    cornmeal sprinkled on baking sheet
  • Transfer pizza dough onto baking sheet and press into corners and edges to fit.

For the Garlic Ranch Sauce

  • Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl, whisking until completely blended. Spread an even layer on uncooked pizza crust.
    offset spatula spreading ranch sauce on pizza dough

Top the Pizza

  • Saute minced garlic in a tablespoon of butter until fragrant. Set aside.
  • Add half of the freshly shredded cheese on top of the sauce, followed by zucchini, onion, chicken, and minced garlic.
    uncooked homemade zucchini chicken ranch pizza
  • Top with remaining shredded cheese
  • Bake at 400 degrees until edges are golden brown and cheese is melted, about 20-25 minutes.
    chicken zucchini ranch pizza on baking sheet
  • Garnish with freshly shredded parmesan cheese, fresh dill and more ranch dressing. Slice, and serve!
    sliced homemade chicken ranch pizza with red onion and zucchini with ramekin of ranch dressing and fresh dill

Notes

  • Pizza dough can be made up ahead of time and left to rest in the refrigerator. Let come to room temp for 20 minutes before stretching it into crust. 
  • Ranch sauce can be made ahead of time and stored covered, in the refrigerator until ready to use. 
  • If you'd like extra ranch for serving with the pizza after it's cooked, double the ranch sauce recipe, and then after using half of it for the sauce, thin the rest out with a couple tablespoons of milk and whisk. Store covered, in the refrigerator until ready to drizzle over baked pizza. 
  • Summer squash also goes great with the zucchini and can be used with it; keep in mind yellow summer squash has more seeds. 
  • When making the ranch dressing, fresh or dried herbs can be used. If using fresh, make sure to mince well. 
  • Store leftover pizza in the refrigerator and heat on a cast iron pan or baking sheet in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.