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Sweet Chili Caribbean Jerk Whole Wheat Pizza

My husband and I love to cook and find new recipes to try and then change them to have more options to our meal planning. We double the chicken recipe and have a Caribbean Jerk Sweet Potato for the following night. Love getting two meals out of one recipe:) We have made this pizza before but last night we perfected it and even made it with a whole wheat crust. It does have a little spice to it so you may want to adjust how much of the scotch bonnet or habanero pepper if you don't like a lot of heat. Some of the best pizza we have had.

We make jerked chicken from Guy Fieri's recipe on Food Network. We don't always grill it. It can be fried in a pan as well.

Jerked Chicken      

-Food Network/Guy Fieri-

Ingredients:

1 Tbsp	Ground Nutmeg	¼ cup	Fresh Thyme Sprigs
1 Tbsp	Ground Allspice	1	Lime, juiced
1 Tbsp	Cinnamon Stick	3	Garlic Cloves
1	Red Onion, chopped	1	Scotch Bonnet Pepper or Habanero Pepper
3	Green Onions, chopped	1 (2-inch)	Fresh Ginger, peeled
¼ cup	Extra Virgin Olive Oil	To taste	Salt
1 cup	Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice	To taste	Pepper
¼ cup	Soy Sauce	2 lbs	Boneless Chicken, diced into 1 ½ inch pieces

Directions:

1.   In food processor, combine all ingredients except chicken. Puree until smooth.

2.   Add all but ¼ cup of the mixture in a 1 gallon sealable bag.

3.   Add chicken to bag and marinate in refrigerator for 1-2 hours.

4.   Heat grill to medium-high. Skewer chicken pieces and grill on one side for about five minutes. Flip and grill other side until done and grill marks appear.

5.   Serve with unused sauce for dipping.

Then we make a whole wheat pizza dough recipe. Could use any one that you like but this is an easy one we use:

Pizza Dough 

Ingredients:   Makes 4 Pizzas

3 C	Hot tap water
2 Tbsp	Honey
6-8 C	Whole wheat or Unbleached White Flour (or half and half)
1 Tbsp	Instant Yeast
1 Tbsp	Real Salt
1 Tbsp	Kitchen Resource Dough Enhancer (optional)

Directions:

1.  Put water, honey and 3 cups of flour in Mixer bowl. Mix until paste consistency.

2.  Add yeast and salt. 

3.  Add additional flour quickly 1 cup at a time only until mixture pulls away from sides of bowl.  You may not need to add entire amount of flour or you may need to add a bit more. 

4.  If using all white flour, knead 5 minutes. (If half white, half wheat, knead 8 minutes.  If all wheat knead for 10 minutes).

5.  Add dough enhancer last 2 minutes of kneading. (I don't add this!)

6.  Place pizza stone in oven and preheat to 500F

7.  Roll crusts to desired shapes and sizes. Add toppings and bake on stone for 7 minutes.

Sweet Chili Caribbean Jerk Whole Wheat Pizza

Ingredients:

       Sweet Chili Sauce

       Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

       Thai basil

       Pineapple

       Diced Red Pepper
       Green onions

       Jerked Chicken

Directions: Once you have your pizza dough rolled out, then add the above ingredients to your taste, using the sweet chili sauce instead of regular pizza sauce and bake. Depending on your oven you may have to reduce temperature and cook longer. I generally have it at 450 degree and cook about 10-12 minutes.