Thai Chicken Pizza (CPK Copycat Recipe) - Little Sunny Kitchen (2024)

Sweet and Spicy Thai Chicken Pizza is a homemade version and a copycat recipe of California Pizza Kitchen that you can easily recreate at home. This delicious pizza has a unique and flavor-packed base of creamy peanut sauce, and is then topped with cooked chicken, julienned carrots, slivered scallions, fresh cilantro, and toasted peanuts for a lovely crunch. Thai Chicken Pizza is best enjoyed fresh and hot out of the oven, so don’t hesitate to give it a try today!

If you love CPK, or love making your own homemade pizza at home, you’re going to have so much making this Thai chicken pizza! The flavor is unique, and it’s very easy to make.

The base of the pizza is a creamy thai peanut sauce, which gives it a sweet, savory, and slightly spicy flavor. The toppings are just cooked chicken, carrots, green onions, fresh cilantro leaves, and toasted peanuts. CPK also use crispy bean sprouts, but I left them out just because I didn’t have any on hand.

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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

1. Homemade: You can easily make a gourmet-style pizza at home, and I’m showing you in this recipe how to make a pizza that’s as good as the one you get at the restaurant.
2. Awesome Thai Flavors: The flavor in this recipe are beautifully paired, you will love how this pizza starts with a creamy and spicy sauce, tender chicken, and gooey cheese, and is finished off with fresh herbs and crunchy peanuts.
3. Inexpensive: Save money by making this pizza at home instead of having to visit the restaurant every time.

Key Ingredients

Here’s what you need to make this pizza:

Complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.

• Pizza Dough:You may use any type of dough for this pizza, whether it’s pre-made or homemade, it’s going to be delicious! I recommend that you make your own homemade pizza dough, I have a great recipe for you, and if you have a bread machine, you can easily make this bread machine pizza dough.
• Chicken:You need about half a cup of cooked chicken here. I thawed a chicken breast,boiled and shredded it, you can also use rotisserie chicken if you have it.
• Peanut Sauce: This sauce is very simple, you will need creamy peanut butter, grated garlic and ginger, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, sesame oil, sriracha (optional, can be substituted with red pepper flakes), honey, and water.
• Cheese: I’m using shredded mozzarella cheese just like CPK!
• Other Toppings: Slice up some scallions (you can substitute with yellow or red onion if needed), grate a small carrot, and roughly chop fresh cilantro and toasted peanuts.

How To Make Thai Chicken Pizza

1. Preheat your oven to the highest possible temperature (mine goes up to 550°F/290°C). If you’re using a pizza stone, place it in the oven to preheat as well. (if you want to bake your pizza on a cookie sheet or in the air fryer, see the instructions in the recipe card below).
2. Take the pizza dough out of the fridge, you want it to come to room temperature.
3. Make the sauce, in a bowl combine all of the sauce ingredients and whisk until smooth and creamy. Set aside.
4. Sprinkle the pizza peel with semolina to prevent the dough from sticking, then shape/stretch your dough gently with your hands into a 10 or 12-inch circle. Before adding any toppings, make sure that the pizza can slide off onto the pizza stone easily. If not, just lift it up gently and sprinkle with more semolina. Don’t push the dough too hard, and start working it from the center. Leave the edges puffed up for a great pizza shape and bubbles.
5. Spread ¾ of the thai peanut sauce on the crust, top with mozzarella cheese, chicken, carrot, and green onions. And of course you can add your favorite toppings at this stage, just make sure not to over do it with the toppings as you want the ratio of pizza dough to toppings to be balanced.
6. Bakein the preheated oven for 4-5 minutes, then switch on the broiler and bake for 3-5 more minutes but keep an eye on it as the top bubbles and browns.

1. Drizzle with the remaining peanut sauce, garnish with chopped fresh cilantro, and crushed peanuts. Slice and serve.

Recipe Tips

• For crispy edges, brush with olive oil before baking.
• Add more toppings: You can go for crisp bean sprouts, sliced red bell pepper, chopped thai basil, or Thai chilies for extra heat. You can also do a drizzle of fresh lime juice right before serving.

FAQs

This Thai Chicken Pizza recipe is such a perfect dinner; I know you’re going to love it! Don’t forget to pin this for the next time you throw a family pizza night!