Pepperoni Pizza Chicken Bake

Updated at: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 20:36:22 GMT

Step 1

Preheat oven to 400ºF

Step 2

Put the pizza sauce in a small saucepan and simmer over low heat until it’s reduced to one cup, about 20 minutes. Don’t skip this step or the dish will be watery.

Step 3

While the sauce reduces, trim the chicken breasts and cut each one crosswise to make two same-size pieces. Put chicken pieces one at a time inside a heavy plastic bag and use a meat mallet to pound the chicken until it’s as thin as possible without letting it shred apart

Step 4

Mix the oregano, and garlic powder in a bowl and sprinkle over chicken

Step 5

Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in the largest non-stick frying pan you own. May do more than 1 batch if the pan isn’t large enough. Add the chicken pieces and cook 1-2 minutes on each side, just long enough to brown the chicken but not long enough to cook it through

Step 6

Choose the smallest glass casserole dish you have that will fit all the browned chicken pieces, and lay the chicken in the dish in a single layer. Cut the mozzarella into slices and cut the slices as needed to make enough pieces to mostly cover the top of each piece of chicken

Step 7

By now the sauce should be nicely reduced, so spread sauce over the top of each chicken breast. Top each piece with Mozzarella and pepperoni slices, covering the top of each piece of chicken as much as you can

Step 8

Bake uncovered about 25-30 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and starting to brown and the pepperoni is slightly crisped

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