Alabama White BBQ Chicken Bacon Pizza (with sourdough crust)

Every bite of this sourdough Alabama white BBQ chicken bacon pizza is creamy, savory, and slightly tangy! Each component is made from scratch from the dough to the sauce. You’re going to love this recipe just as much as we do! It’s my take on one of our favorite BBQ pizzas from Chattanooga, TN!

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Alabama White BBQ Chicken Bacon Pizza

You’re going to LOVE this pizza! It’s one of my favorite pizzas I’ve ever had and probably the best I’ve created in our kitchen. The Alabama white sauce gives it the most amazing flavor profile. It’s creamy, tangy, and a little smoky.

The sourdough pizza crust adds the perfect base, and the peppered pan seared chicken and baked bacon complete the pizza.

It’s a super simple recipe, but it does have a good amount of steps. Don’t let this discourage you from making it! I developed it so it would be easy to follow and you do a lot of the steps together so it doesn’t take long.

What is Alabama White BBQ Sauce?

Alabama white sauce is a creamy, tangy, mayonnaise-based BBQ sauce. Most BBQ sauces are ketchup or vinegar based, but not this one!

It’s got savory spices with a little extra heat from the cayenne and hot sauce. Plus a smokiness from the smoked paprika and a little honey, to add a hint of sweetness!

Why You’ll Love This Pizza

• Perfect for parties! If you’re looking to impress your guests or make them feel extra special, whip up this pizza. They’ll love it!
• Everything is made from scratch. Every single component of this recipe is made from scratch so you can feel good about what you’re eating.
• Tastes like a restaurant. The taste is out of this world! It’s savory, smoky, salty, tangy, and creamy, all in the best ways.
• Easy to follow instructions. The instructions are super simple to follow. I wanted even the beginner cook to make this recipe.

Ingredients You’ll Need for BBQ Chicken Pizza

Sourdough Pizza Dough

• fed sourdough starter
• water
• avocado oil or melted butter
• salt
• raw honey
• all-purpose flour

Alabama White BBQ Sauce

• mayonnaise (I like Kroger’s Simple Truth)
• apple cider vinegar
• raw honey
• hot sauce (Franks is my favorite)
• smoked paprika
• salt
• garlic powder
• ground black pepper
• ground cayenne

Toppings

• boneless skinless chicken breast
• salt
• ground black pepper
• bacon uncooked (uncured is best)
• shredded cheddar cheese
• Optional- freshly grated Parmesan reggiano

Kitchen Tools You’ll Need

• large mixing bowl
• pizza stone or baking sheet
• rolling pin
• skillet

How to Make Alabama White Barbecue Chicken and Bacon Pizza

Prep Your Starter

BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Feed your starter 4-12 hours before starting this recipe. I recommend feeding it a 2:1 ratio of unbleached flour to filtered water to get the same results as I do when you make this recipe.

Example: Feed 1 cup flour + 1/2 cup water and let the starter sit on the counter at room temperature until it’s bubbly and has grow in the jar. Your starter needs to be active, bubbly, and a thicker consistency to begin this recipe.

Make & Ferment Pizza Dough

Add all ingredients into a large mixing bowl and stir to combine (dough will be shaggy).

Use your hands to bring dough into a ball (add 1 Tbsp extra water if needed).

Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead by hand for 3 minutes.

Place dough back into the bowl and cover with a damp kitchen towel, seran wrap, or a lid loosely for 10 hours to bulk ferment. The dough should double in size. See notes for helpful information and troubleshooting.

Make the sauce

Add all sauce ingredients into a mixing bowl and combine with a spoon until everything is evenly combined.

Place in the fridge for now.

Cook the Chicken

Add 1 tsp of avocado oil (or butter) to a pan and heat over medium until the oil is hot.

Season the chicken, on both sides, with 3/4 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp pepper

Add the chicken to the pan and cook for 10 minutes over medium heat.

Flip and cook an additional 10-12 minutes until chicken is cooked fully. You can easily check this by cutting into the thickest part with knife to see if it’s cooked.

When chicken is cooked fully, place on a plate and set aside for now.

Cook the Bacon

While the chicken is cooking preheat the oven to 425 degrees.

Cover a sheet pan with parchment paper and place the bacon strips on it so they’re not touching.

Sprinkle 1/4 tsp pepper over the bacon.

Bake for 12-14 minutes until bacon is fully cooked and crisp.

Carefully with tongs place cooked bacon strips on a plate to get out of the grease. Optional – you can dab them with paper towels or an old rag to get rid of excess grease.

Set aside for now.

Assemble & Bake Pizza

After dough has doubled, Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. If you’re using a pizza stone preheat the stone with the oven.

Roll dough section out on a lightly floured surface with a rolling pin to the shape and thickness you desire (1/4″ for thin crust or 1/2″ for hand-tossed). Make this a circle or rectangle. Up to you.

Optional- for a crust use your fingers to roll up just a tiny bit of the sides all around the dough.

Place rolled-out dough on a preheated pizza stone or baking sheet that’s been lined with parchment paper or greased.

Bake dough for 8 mins.

While it’s baking shred cooked chicken and chop cooked bacon into pieces.

Pull out of oven, add sauce, cooked chicken that’s been shredded, cooked bacon that’s been chopped into pieces, and shredded cheese.

Optional- sprinkle freshly grated Parmesan on top

Bake for an additional 15-18 minutes until the crust is golden brown and cheese is bubbly.

Take out of oven and enjoy!

Recipe Variations

• Different BBQ: You can switch out the homemade Alabama white BBQ sauce for any BBQ sauce you prefer.
• Regular Crust: If you don’t want to make sourdough pizza crust you can make a yeast crust instead.
• Different Toppings: You can add any toppings you’d like to this pizza. An additional diced red onion would be really good too.

What to Serve with Pizza

Pizza can be an entire meal by itself, but if you’d like something to go alongside it, here are some ideas:

• For a fizzy drink, serve this pizza with a glass of homemade orange soda or my sparkling holiday punch.
• If you’d like a sourdough side, whip up some sourdough garlic knots, texas toast, or garlic bread.
• Want a dessert? Make a batch of sourdough brownies, chocolate chia pudding, mini fruit pizzas, or sourdough cut out sugar cookies.

How to Store Leftover Pizza

My favorite way to store this chicken bacon pizza is in a glass freezer-safe container in the freezer. It preserves the flavors of the chicken and bacon and keeps the texture perfectly. It’ll keep in the freezer for up to 1 month.

But you can also store it in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 days.

Making Ahead – Homemade Frozen Pizza Instructions

If you’d like to make this pizza ahead for an easy meal, I recommend preparing it completely all the way until the step to bake the fully assembled pizza.

So after you pre-bake the crust and add the toppings, let the pizza cool and freeze it instead of baking. You will want to wrap the pizza in a beeswax wrap or saran wrap multiple times to prevent freezer burn.

It’ll keep in the freezer up to 1 month. When you’re ready to bake it, preheat the oven and bake frozen like a frozen pizza from the store.

You may need to add a few more minutes to the baking time until the crust is fully cooked and the cheese is melted. The chicken and bacon are already fully cooked before freezing.

Best Way to Reheat Pizza

The best way to reheat any pizza, but especially this one, is in an oven preheated to 400 degrees. Place the slices you’d like on a pan and warm about 10 minutes or until the cheese is bubbling.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Recipe

Alabama White BBQ Chicken Bacon Pizza (with sourdough crust)

Molly LaFontaine

Every bite of this sourdough Alabama white BBQ chicken bacon pizza is creamy, savory, and slightly tangy! Each component is made from scratch from the dough to the sauce. You're going to love this recipe just as much as we do! It's my take on one of our favorite BBQ pizzas from Chattanooga, TN!

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Prep Time 25 minutes mins

Cook Time 23 minutes mins

Dough Rising 10 hours hrs

Total Time 10 hours hrs 48 minutes mins

Course Dinner

Cuisine Sourdough, Southern

Servings 1 pizza

Ingredients

  

Sourdough Pizza Dough

• 1/4 cup fed sourdough starter
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 1/2 Tbsp avocado oil or melted butter
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp raw honey
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Alabama White BBQ Sauce

• 1/2 cup mayonnaise I like Kroger’s Simple Truth
• 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
• 1 tsp raw honey
• 1/4 tsp hot sauce Franks is my favorite
• 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp garlic powder
• 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
• 1/8 tsp ground cayenne

Toppings

• 1 boneless skinless chicken breast
• 3/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
• 1/2 LB. bacon uncooked (uncured is best)
• 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
• 1-2 Tbsp Optional- freshly grated Parmesan reggiano

Instructions

 

Prep Your Starter

• BEFORE YOU GET STARTED: Feed your starter 4-12 hours before starting this recipe. I recommend feeding it a 2:1 ratio of unbleached flour to filtered water to get the same results as I do when you make this recipe. Example: Feed 1 cup flour + 1/2 cup water and let the starter sit on the counter at room temperature until it’s bubbly and has grow in the jar. Your starter needs to be active, bubbly, and a thicker consistency to begin this recipe.

Make & Ferment Pizza Dough

• Add all ingredients into a large mixing bowl and stir to combine (dough will be shaggy).
• Use your hands to bring dough into a ball (add 1 Tbsp extra water if needed).
• Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead by hand for 3 minutes.
• Place dough back into the bowl and cover with a damp kitchen towel, seran wrap, or a lid loosely for 10 hours to bulk ferment. The dough should double in size. See notes for helpful information and troubleshooting.

Make the sauce

• Add all sauce ingredients into a mixing bowl and combine with a spoon until everything is evenly combined.
• Place in the fridge for now.

Cook the Chicken

• Add 1 tsp of avocado oil (or butter) to a pan and heat over medium until the oil is hot.
• Season the chicken, on both sides, with 3/4 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp pepper
• Add the chicken to the pan and cook for 10 minutes over medium heat.
• Flip and cook an additional 10-12 minutes until chicken is cooked fully. You can easily check this by cutting into the thickest part with knife to see if it’s cooked.
• When chicken is cooked fully, place on a plate and set aside for now.

Cook the Bacon

• While the chicken is cooking preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• Cover a sheet pan with parchment paper and place the bacon strips on it so they’re not touching.
• Sprinkle 1/4 tsp pepper over the bacon.
• Bake for 12-14 minutes until bacon is fully cooked and crisp.
• Carefully with tongs place cooked bacon strips on a plate to get out of the grease. Optional – you can dab them with paper towels or an old rag to get rid of excess grease.
• Set aside for now.

Assemble & Bake Pizza

• After dough has doubled, Preheat oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit. If you’re using a pizza stone preheat the stone with the oven.
• Roll dough section out on a lightly floured surface with a rolling pin to the shape and thickness you desire (1/4″ for thin crust or 1/2″ for hand-tossed). Make this a circle or rectangle. Up to you.
• Optional- for a crust use your fingers to roll up just a tiny bit of the sides all around the dough.
• Place rolled-out dough on a baking sheet that’s been lined with parchment paper or greased or preheated pizza stone.
• Bake dough for 8 mins.
• While it’s baking shred cooked chicken and chop cooked bacon into pieces.
• Pull out of oven, add sauce, cooked chicken that’s been shredded, cooked bacon that’s been chopped into pieces, and shredded cheese. Optional- sprinkle freshly grated Parmesan on top
• Bake for an additional 15-18 minutes until the crust is golden brown and cheese is bubbly.
• Take out of oven and enjoy!

Notes

How to Store Leftover Pizza

My favorite way to store this chicken bacon pizza is in a glass freezer-safe container in the freezer. It preserves the flavors of the chicken and bacon and keeps the texture perfectly. It’ll keep in the freezer for up to 1 month.

But you can also store it in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 days.

Making Ahead – Homemade Frozen Pizza Instructions

If you’d like to make this pizza ahead for an easy meal, I recommend preparing it completely all the way until the step to bake the fully assembled pizza.

So after you pre-bake the crust and add the toppings, let the pizza cool and freeze it instead of baking. You will want to wrap the pizza in a beeswax wrap or saran wrap multiple times to prevent freezer burn.

It’ll keep in the freezer up to 1 month. When you’re ready to bake it, preheat the oven and bake frozen like a frozen pizza from the store.

You may need to add a few more minutes to the baking time until the crust is fully cooked and the cheese is melted. The chicken and bacon are already fully cooked before freezing.

Best Way to Reheat Pizza

The best way to reheat any pizza, but especially this one, is in an oven preheated to 400 degrees. Place the slices you’d like on a pan and warm about 10 minutes or until the cheese is bubbling.

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