Low Carb Pizza Chicken w Cheesy Cauliflower Rice
How to Make It
Step 1
Prepare 4-ounce chicken breasts by patting them dry with a paper towel and pounding them flat, if necessary. Your chicken breasts should be around ½-inch thick. Rub ¼ teaspoon olive oil into each breast, and season the chicken with salt, pepper, oregano, thyme, basil garlic powder, and onion powder. Heat a pan on your stove on very high heat. Once the pan is hot, place the chicken in the pan to sear.
Step 2
Sear your chicken on each side, but don’t cook the chicken all the way through. You’ll finish cooking the chicken in the oven. Transfer the seared chicken to a well-seasoned sheet tray, and turn on the oven to preheat to 350 degrees (return the pan to your stove for later). Spread ½ tablespoon marinara sauce across the top of each chicken breast. Follow up with 1 teaspoon bacon bits, 4 slices of thin-sliced pepperoni, and 1 ounce of whole-milk mozzarella in that order on each piece.
Step 3
Place the pizza chicken in your oven. Bake the chicken for 15 minutes or until a meat thermometer reads 165 degrees internally and the cheese is completely melted. At your discretion, you can cook the pizza chicken under a broiler at the end of the recipe to give a more golden-brown top, just like a pizza coming out of the oven. While the chicken breasts are cooking in your oven, you can turn your attention to the cheesy rice.
Step 4
If you kept your pan that you used to cook the chicken, you can use this same pan to cook your rice in. This way, the rice can pick up other flavors and cook in the natural fat from the chicken. Toss riced cauliflower (frozen or fresh) in the pan with salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and parsley. Cook the rice on high heat on your stove until the rice is golden and the spices have lightly charred. If you used frozen cauliflower rice, this process will take a little longer to ensure the excess moisture evaporates.
Step 5
Reduce the heat to low, and add butter and cream cheese to the pan of rice. Stir the ingredients until the butter has melted and the cream cheese has melted into a lump-free spread. Fold the rice over until it’s all coated in the cream cheese mixture. Follow up by adding the cheddar and colby jack cheese to your pan. Continue folding the rice as the cheese melts and thickens your rice into a dense, creamy dish. Serve approximately 4 ounces of cheesy cauliflower rice with each portion of pizza chicken.
Ingredients
- Chicken Breast Boneless Skinless Raw – 8 oz
- Olive Or Extra Virgin Olive Oil – 0.5 tsp
- Salt – 0.13 tsp
- Black pepper – 0.13 tsp
- Oregano, dried – 0.25 tsp
- Thyme, dried – 0.25 tsp
- Basil, dried – 0.25 tsp
- Garlic powder – 0.13 tsp
- Onion powder – 0.13 tsp
- Marinara sauce – 1 tbsp
- Real bacon bits – 2 tsp
- Pepperoni – 8 slice – each 0.1 ounce
- Mozzarella cheese, whole milk – 2 oz
- Cauliflower rice – 8 oz
- Salt – 0.13 tsp
- Black pepper – 0.13 tsp
- Onion powder – 0.13 tsp
- Garlic powder – 0.13 tsp
- Parsley, dried – 1 tsp
- Butter, unsalted – 1 tbsp
- Cream cheese – 1 oz
- Cheddar cheese, natural – 0.5 cup, shredded
- Colby Jack cheese – 0.25 cup, shredded