Ultimate Stuffed Pizza Chicken is chicken breast stuffed with pepperoni and cheese, covered in sauce with more cheese and pepperoni! Make your own pizza chicken with all of your favorite pizza toppings!
This Ultimate Stuffed Pizza Chicken recipe started with my Chicken Parmigiana. We had extra pepperoni in the fridge from making pizzas so I threw it on top of the mozzarella and parmesan cheese on the chicken parm. It was a big hit and over the years it has evolved into the recipe you find below.
Chicken breast with your favorite tomato based pasta sauce, your favorite cheese and pepperoni. I have also sautéed onions, mushrooms and peppers and stuffed them into the breasts as well. All pizza toppings work. Have some fun. You wont believe how great this chicken dish tastes until you give it a try!
Ingredients for Ultimate Stuffed Pizza Chicken
- chicken breasts
- pepperoni
- shredded mozzarella
- pasta sauce
How to make the Ultimate Pizza Chicken
Place chicken breasts flat on your cutting board.
With your knife angled downward toward the cutting board, cut a lengthwise slit in each chicken breast, creating a sort of pocket.
Stuff each piece of chicken with at least 5 slices of pepperoni.
Put the pepperoni slices on the bottom part of the pocket and mozzarella cheese on top.
The idea is to position the chicken breast so the opening and the cheese are facing upward otherwise the cheese will likely melt away from the chicken.
Bake chicken breasts for 25 minutes at 350°.
Remove chicken from oven.
Brush or spoon sauce to cover each breast, then top with cheese and lastly the pepperoni slices.
Place back in the oven for 15 minutes.
Next, leave the chicken in the oven and turn your oven up to broil. Broil for about 5 minutes or until the cheese and pepperoni start to turn brown.
That being said if you’re like me, and always looking for new chicken recipes, I have listed a bunch of options below. Maybe if the Ultimate Stuffed Pizza Chicken recipe isn’t for you, perhaps you will find something else in this list that you feel is worth try! I know it’s a long list but we love chicken and these are some of our favorites!
Perfect Oven Barbecued Chicken
Cheesy Barbecue Bacon Chicken Breast
Balsamic Orange Maple Glazed Chicken
Sweet Balsamic Apple Glazed Chicken Breasts
Bacon or Prosciutto Wrapped Cream Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breasts
Maple Garlic Glazed Chicken Breasts
Crispy Onion Honey Mustard Chicken
Balsamic Raspberry Garlic Chicken
The Best Alice Springs Chicken Copycat
Bacon Wrapped Barbecue Chicken
Cordon Bleu Hasselback Chicken
Ultimate Stuffed Pizza Chicken
Equipment
- rimmed baking sheet
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breast boneless, skinless
- 40 slices pepperoni sliced - (at least 10per breast)
- 2 cups mozzarella cheese shredded - (to taste)
- 1-2 cups pasta sauce tomato based - (any store bought variety or homemade)
Instructions
- Place chicken breasts flat on your cutting board. With your knife angled downward toward the cutting board, cut a lengthwise slit in each chicken breast, creating a sort of pocket. Stuff each piece of chicken with at least 5 slices of pepperoni. Put the pepperoni slices on the bottom part of the pocket and mozzarella cheese on top. The idea is to position the chicken breast so the opening and the cheese are facing upward otherwise the cheese will likely melt away from the chicken.
- Bake chicken breasts for 25 minutes at 350°.
- Remove chicken from oven. Brush or spoon sauce to cover each breast, then top with cheese and lastly the pepperoni slices. Place back in the oven for 15 minutes. Next, leave the chicken in the oven and turn your oven up to broil. Broil for about 5 minutes or until the cheese and pepperoni start to turn brown. Serve and enjoy!
Notes
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Debbie
What is a good side dish to go with this/
Karin and Ken
I usually serve this terrific chicken with whatever pasta I have around and a tomato sauce. Usually topped with a little parmesan cheese. We also will just serve it with a salad of some kind. Anything from mixed greens to a caesar salad. My son loves these stuffed chicken breasts on a toasted bun too. Honestly the possibilities are truly endless. Hope I have helped at least a little. Please let me know what you serve your chicken with. I would love to hear how it goes. These chicken breasts are delicious and definitely worth a try. Take care. All the best. Karin
Dawn Borgman
Wow, this is delicious!!! Made this for dinner tonight and it was amazing, easy and a definite make it again recipe. I did add some extra seasoning to the chicken before cooking, garlic powder, black pepper and sprinkled it with a little italian seasoning.
Karin and Ken
So glad you enjoyed this recipe and I’m happy you added some seasoning to make it taste even better! Can’t thank you enough for taking the time to let me know! You truly made my day! Hopefully you find some other recipes on this site that you enjoy just as much! All the best. Karin