Pizza and Baked Chicken Wings

I feel it is an American tradition that while watching sports on TV, my preferred sport is the Boston Red Sox, that one must eat pizza and a side. For Sunday's winning game against the Chicago White Sox, I cooked chicken wings and made a white pizza.

What is the difference between white pizza and red pizza? Red pizza is typically made with tomato sauce or marinara. White pizza is made with a white cream sauce such as alfredo cheese or a simple garlic olive oil as was the case with my pizza.

You will need:

• 15 chicken wings
• Seasoning - mesquite or Albukirky Seasoning
• 1 medium pizza dough ball - you can buy from your local pizzeria such as Dion's ($2-3)
• Pizza toppings - green chili, red onion, green pepper, seeded roma tomato
• 1 - 2 cups mozzarella cheese
• 3 cloves garlic
• 2 tablespoons EVOO

Crunchy and healthy baked chicken wings

So, how do you make crunchy baked chicken wings?

1. Marinate wings with seasoning for 30 minutes
2. Steam wings in a steamer tray for 10 minutes - steaming will allow excess fat to drip and prevents smoke from forming in the oven when the chicken bakes
3. Place steamed wings in fridge for 1 hour
4. Heat oven to 425 degrees
5. Sprinkle additional seasoning on wings
6. Place wings on baking sheet
7. After 20 minutes, take the wings out and turn them over
8. Bake for another 15 minutes
9. Pizza stone

Yummo Pizza

For pizza, you can bake it or if you are good with an outdoor grill, attempt to grill it - see Albukirky's blog about grilling pizza. I am not great with the outdoor grill and as a result, prefer to bake indoors. 

1. Heat pizza stone in 425 oven
2. Mince garlic and cook in sautee pan with olive oil until fragrant, remove from stove and let cool 
3. Flower a large flat surface such as a pizza peel
4. Roll pizza dough into circle on top of flowered surface
5. Pour and spread garlic olive oil mixture on top of dough
6. Spread a layer of cheese on pizza
7. Place toppings on cheese
8. Spread more cheese on top
9. Carefully move pizza on to stone using pizza peel
10. Bake in 425 oven for 20 minutes

Now you have yourself a great tasting pizza without the hassle of waiting for delivery/carry out and saving yourself $$