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Easy Oven Baked Barbecue Chicken Pizza Tacos are full of pizza flavours, stuffed inside a crispy taco shell, to give you the BEST of both worlds!
Easy Oven Baked Barbecue Chicken Pizza Tacos… Ever heard of such combination? What a great easy way to enjoy a meal!
TACOS
After the Korean Bulgogi Bbq Beef Taco, Slow Cooker Barbacoa Short Rib Taco, and Loaded Taco Grilled Cheese, it’s safe to say experimenting with tacos has become one of my obsessions.
I have three questions for you:
- What’s better than Taco’s? Pizza.
- What’s better than Pizza? Taco’s.
- What’s better than both of those? The merging of two of the greatest foods of our lifetime. A pizza taco.
No, this isn’t authentic Italian or Mexican BUUUHT it sure is a hell of a way to thoroughly enjoy both AT THE SAME TIME.
Oven Baked Tacos
If you’ve been following me for a wile, you already know my obsession with barbecue chicken pizza is a pretty big deal, and I usually stuff those flavours into whatever I can. There was the BBQ Chicken Pizza Pull Apart Bread; a Barbecue Chicken Pizza Egg Wrap; Barbecue Chicken Pizzadilla (Pizza Quesadilla).
It’s real, people.
For this recipe, I went with a Barbecue Chicken Pizza inspired Taco, because WHO doesn’t love a good BBQ Chicken Pizzah?
How To Make Pizza Tacos
Make your chicken in the best 2-ingredient sauce EVER
Sprinkling the base of each shell with shredded cheese to stop them from going soggy. They stay perfectly crunchy this way.
Fill Taco shells with chicken mixture.
Bake them until the cheese oozes down and melts through your chicken pizza stuffing / topping.
I serve these as they are. No need for sour cream or guac! BUUUUHT you can top these Oven baked Barbecue Chicken Pizza Tacos with whatever your heart desires!
WATCH US MAKE BAKED TACOS RIGHT HERE!
BARBECUE CHICKEN INSPO:
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Barbecue Buffalo Wings With Avocado
Garlic and Lime Barbecued Chicken Salad
Oven Baked BBQ Chicken Pizza Tacos
Ingredients
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 pound boneless and skinless chicken thighs diced into 1-inch pieces
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1/3 cup barbecue sauce
- salt to season
- 10 taco shells stand and stuff
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/3 green bell pepper deseeded and sliced thinly
- 1/4 red onion sliced thinly
- 1/4 cup mushrooms sliced
- 2 tablespoons olives sliced
- 1 pinch Italian seasoning or pizza topper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C). Spray a a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking oil spray; set aside.
- Heat the oil in a skillet or pan over medium-high heat. When hot, add the chicken and sear until golden and crisp. Add the garlic; fry until fragrant (about 1 minute); then add the barbecue sauce and salt to season (about 1/2 teaspoon salt). Cook until chicken is coated and glossy, and the sauce slightly thickens. Turn off heat.
- Arrange taco shells in the baking dish. Sprinkle 1-2 tablespoons of shredded cheese into each taco shell to keep them from going soggy. Spoon about 2-3 tablespoons of the chicken mixture into each shell on top of the cheese until all the chicken is used. Top with the green pepper slices, onion slices, mushrooms and olives. Top shells with the remaining cheese and sprinkle with the seasoning.
- Bake for 15 minutes or until the cheese has melted through. Serve with sour cream, guacamole, salsa, or condiments of choice.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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My family loves this recipe! Melted cheese on crunchy tacos, with the sweetness of bbq sauce…..much better than the typical ground beef taco kit!