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Roasted Garlic, Chicken & Herb White Pizza

Roasted Garlic, Chicken & Herb White Pizza – Roasted garlic sauce topped with chicken, red onions, and herbs. A healthier alternative to traditional pizza

Roasted Garlic, Chicken and Herb White Pizza

The name of this pizza is kind of a mouthful, but I just didn’t want to leave anything out. I call it Roasted Garlic White Chicken Pizza for short.  This week for #SundaySupper we are going skinny!  That is right, we are bringing you TONS of recipes that are all good for you!  Sunithi from Sue’s Nutrition Buzz is hosting this fun event.

Roasted Garlic, Chicken and Herb White Pizza

You may think it is strange that we are doing a skinny event, and I am making pizza.  But I am a firm believer of “all things in moderation”.  And just because you are trying to eat healthier, doesn’t mean you can’t have good tasting food.

And trust me, this roasted garlic white chicken pizza tastes incredible.  I brought this to cooking club a few weeks ago, and everyone loved it.  They requested I bring some kind of pizza every month. Apparently between this and the potato pizza, I have made an impression.

Roasted Garlic, Chicken and Herb White Pizza

To make this pizza a little healthier I cut down on the cheese by quite a bit.  You don’t want to cover up the flavor of the roasted garlic, so you only need a little.

To make the cream sauce, I used a mixture of skim milk and half and half.  Roasted garlic has so much flavor, you want to let it shine through.  The red onions and the herbs give it a fresh and bright flavor.  Serve this with a side salad, or this antipasto salad and you have a healthy and delicious dinner.

Here are a few of my favorite kitchen items I used to make this recipe

Sheet Pans: A good quality, durable sheet pan is great for baking cookies, roasting veggies, or full sheet pan dinner. These are my favorite kind and have been using them for years.

Rolling Pin: I love my wooden rolling pin. I actually bought one like this years ago and love it. This is not something I would go really cheap on because it will end up being hard to use. 

Pizza Cutter – whether you are making homemade pizza, frozen pizza, or even just getting take out; a heavy duty, good quality pizza cutter is a must in every kitchen.

Silicone Baking Mats – I love these for baking cookies, pizza, bread, and just about anything else. Nothing sticks, and clean up is a breeze!

Roasted Garlic, Chicken and Herb White Pizza
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Roasted Garlic White Chicken Pizza
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
20 mins
Total Time
35 mins
 
Roasted garlic sauce topped with chicken, red onions, and herbs. A healthier alternative to pizza
Servings: 6
Ingredients
  • 1 pound pizza dough
  • 1 Tbls butter
  • 8 cloves roasted garlic , minced
  • 2 Tbls all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp black pepper
  • 1/2 cup skim milk
  • 1/4 cup half and half
  • 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
  • 1 1/2 cup boneless skinless chicken breast , cooked and shredded
  • 1/4 cup red onion , diced
  • 3/4 cup Mozzarella cheese
  • 1 tsp fresh thyme , chopped
  • 1/2 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 Tbls fresh parsley , chopped
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Prepare a baking sheet with a siplat liner, or grease and sprinkle with cornmeal.
  2. Melt butter in a small saucepan. Saute roasted garlic for 1 minute.
  3. Add flour, and mix until well blended. Cook for 1 minute.
  4. Slowly whisk in the milk and half and half. Mix in the pepper.
  5. Cook for about 3 minutes, or until it starts to thicken. Remove from heat, and stir in Parmesan cheese.
  6. Spread dough into roughly a 12 inch circle on prepared baking sheet. Spread white cause over the dough. Top with chicken, red onions and cheese.
  7. Bake for 17 minutes, or until the crust is golden, and the cheese is melted.
  8. Remove from the oven, sprinkle with herbs. Cut and serve immediately.
Recipe Notes
Adapted from Cooking Light

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    • Ok, I know this is the light version but I went all the way with the milk and use all half and half and I used the whole bulb of roasted garlic. OMG it was very very good. Had lots of flavor. My kids added bbq sauce. I thought it took away from the garlic flavor but was tasty.

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  5. When I could eat regular pizza this was always my choice! I love the combination of flavors and your recipe sounds amazing. I will print the recipe and use it on a gluten free crust next time I make pizza for the family.

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  6. When I could eat regular pizza this was always my choice! I love the combination of flavors and your recipe sounds amazing. I will print the recipe and use it on a gluten free crust next time I make pizza for the family.

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  16. I believe in the moderation rule also. No need in depriving oneself of good food – just eat sensibly, right? This pizza looks absolutely fantastic! White pizza is a personal preference of mine over red, although both are good… hehehe!

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  19. I just love white pizza, and the combination of the roasted garlic with the chicken and red onions sounds heavenly! Oh, and I’m with you – all things in moderation 🙂

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  30. Oh, boy, does this look amazing!!! We need to break away from the plain cheese or plain pepperoni pizza and try your garlic chicken herb version! Wow!

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  35. Aside from the addition of chicken (since she turned vegetarian on me) this would be my elder daughter’s ideal pizza. She’s not a fan of cooked tomato. I can’t wait to make this for her, perhaps subbing some roasted veg for the chicken! Thanks for sharing!

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  37. I looooove pizza with white sauce and the amount of garlic in this is making my mouth water. This looks incredible! My eyes bugged out of my head in gluttonous amazement at your gorgeous photos. I am making this asap.

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  38. I have made this before and we also like to include spinach and mushrooms! We make it on my George Foreman, 360 Grille. And I wanted to tell you that the beer that you have in one of the photos (Spotted Cow beer from Wisconsin) is one of my husband and my brothers favorites! We live in MO and my cousin bring them each a case when the come down to visit us from Wisconsin!!

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  39. This looks delicious! Do you know what I could use in place of half & half? I don’t think we have that in Canada.

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  41. How do you get Spotted Cow in Colorado?! I live in Madison, WI and it’s my favorite beer. I didn’t think they sold out-of-state though.

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    • They don’t. I am from WI, so when I go back I pick some up, or when our parents visit they bring me some. It is my favorite too!

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  42. I just made this tonight and we really liked it! I added chopped fresh tomatoes on top. I love that you can customize it however you’d like. I’m thinking spinach and mushrooms would be really yummy as well. Glad you shared! 🙂

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    • Yes, that should work just fine! I just wanted to use what I had on hand, and try to make it low calorie. If you don’t care about calories you could use heavy cream 🙂 Whole milk is thik enough, I am sure it would work great!

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  44. Just found this on Pinterest – it looks so good! Maybe something for our next “at home date night”. And might I compliment you on your choice of beer – New Glarus – also so good. 😉

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    • Half and Half is a lower fat version of heavy cream or whole milk. You can use either in this recipe, I just used half and half to make it a little better for you. Hope you enjoy!

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  48. Would it be okay to just put the herbs in the sauce as you are making it, instead of putting the herbs on top of the pizza?

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  49. Awesome – we fixed this for dinner today and everyone loved it – we added tomatoes and roasted red peppers. Also could have added fresh basil – yummy :-0

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  50. I love how you lightened up something that can be considered a treat when watching calories – everything in moderation is the key! This has so much flavor, that I doubt the reduced amount of cheese would be missed.

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  51. This looks wonderful, can’t wait to try! For the roasted garlic, did you take minced garlic and then roast it? Or buy the minced roasted garlic, the dry form? Thanks!

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  53. Thank you so much for this recipe. It is quite literally our family’s favorite!

    A nice variation we like to make it a little healthier is this simple pizza dough recipe I found: mix 1 cup of greek yogurt and 1 cup of flour together; knead it like dough and use that for pizza crust!

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  55. I made this tonight for me and my boyfriend.. We both thought it was amazing! I highly recommend this recipe for someone who is looking for an easy meal that looks fancy! A+++

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    • Nutritional value depends on the brands of the products you use. You can click on the adapted link, to see what the original recipe was (it is a Cooking Light recipe); or go to MyFitness Pal or Social Spark to calculate based on what products you use.

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  57. hello,
    tomorrow i will make the pizza but i don’t know what is a half and half. can’t understand. can u explain?

    regards
    shohini

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    • Shonihi in the US half and half is a mixture of milk and cream. It makes it a little less fat and calories than using all heavy cream. But whole milk, cream, or even a less fat milk will work as well.

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    • I wouldn’t see why not Bridgette. It might thicken a little, but you could just add a tiny bit of milk to thin it out if necessary.

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    • I have never tried freezing it, so I am not sure. There is enough fat, that I think it would be ok. The consistency might be a little off, but because you are putting it on a pizza and not eating straight on pasta, you might not notice. Give it a try and let me know!

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  60. This recipe was out-of-this world good! We absolutely loved it. We’ve discovered a “faux” bechamel from another site that we’ve been using for the white sauce portion to save a few calories but otherwise think your idea is just perfect! Thank you!

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  61. I had made a tomato garlic marinade for chicken and didn’t want to just bake it and eat with a side of veggies so I decided to shred it and put it on pizza. I used the sauce from this recipe and topped it with that chicken and some small chunks of fresh mozzarella. So good!! I didn’t realize I was supposed to roast the garlic until I was already chopping but it was still amazing without it being roasted. Would be awesome on pasta too.

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    • I do not calculate calories, because everything varies so much with the product you use. You can put everything into an online calculator to know for sure, or look at the cooking light website (I made some changes to the recipe) to get a ballpark idea.

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  63. Years ago when I was first learning how to cook for myself and trying new foods (i was super picky) this was probably the first recipe I made that I LOVED and felt really accomplished for having pulled off successfully. (I made it a few times after that too). I wish I could make it all the time but recently decided I can’t eat grains or dairy (or at least not very often). I’ll always remember the day I brought the leftovers of this into work though and my co-worker asked where it was from and I got to reply “My kitchen!”

    GREAT recipe!

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  39. […] Last Saturday, we were having some friends over so we made two recipes in that vein. The first was roasted garlic chicken white pizza on this pizza dough and the second was butternut squash pizza on French bread. Both were pretty […]

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