Prairie Girl in the Big, Scary World: *Recipe* Chicken Bottomed Pizzas

When Nicole and I attended the Rachael Ray show a couple weeks ago, I was super excited to try all of the recipes she made on the show. I have only tried one so far, but it is definitely a winner! On the show Rachael just called them Chicken Pizzas, but to me, Chicken pizzas mean chicken on a regular pizza and in all honesty I don't like chicken on pizza. So I renamed them (okay, I know the name might need some work, but oh well) and had to share the recipe. They are actually one of the healthy 5 ingredient meals included in the challenge of the same name, started by FLOTUS (the First lady) to teach people that eating healthy can be simple and affordable. These only took a few minutes to whip up and really are fantastic!

Ingredients

-4- 6-8oz chicken breasts pounded to about 1/4-1/8"

-Olive oil for drizzling plus 1tbsp

-Salt and Pepper

-1tsp garlic salt

-1tsp onion salt

-1tsp red pepper flakes

-2 tbsp fresh thyme, chopped or 1tbsp dried

-2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced

-1/2 small red onion, finely chopped

-1 1/2 pints cherry or grape tomatoes, halved

-fresh basil leaves. Leave a couple out to garnish.

-1lb ball of fresh mozzarella thinly sliced (I used the fresh mozza that I made myself. Find out about that here.)

-Any other ingredients you like on pizza can be added as well. Mushrooms, peppers, pepperoni etc.

Directions

-Season chicken with salt, pepper, garlic and onion salt, red pepper and thyme. Let sit to marinate for a few minutes.

-Preheat a large pan or grill pan over medium high heat. Also preheat oven on broil.

-Heat a skillet with a lid over medium high heat, with a tbsp olive Olive Oil. Add sliced garlic and chopped onion and stir a minute, then add tomatoes and season with a little salt to taste. Cover pan and soften tomatoes for about 10 minutes stirring occasionally. Add basil to pan to wilt.