Copycat California Pizza Kitchen Thai Pizza Kitchen Pizza Recipe Is Super Expensive To Eat Out, but you can make it for half the price at home.

Copycat California Pizza Kitchen Thai Pizza Chicken Pizza Recipe

This Copycat California Pizza Kitchen Thai Pizza Chicken Pizza Recipe is a modified version of what we had at California Pizza Kitchen.  To be clear, we don't try to copy the recipes exactly on our blog.  When we do a copycat we always start from scratch and try to use healthier recipes.  Here is a photo of what we copied in our own way.  You can modify whatever else you want and make it your own.

Their version we got for take-out

California Pizza Kitchen Thai Chicken Pizza

This recipe uses a whole grain crust and our own version of Thai peanut sauce, my wife came up with and rehabbed to be healthier.  We also made it faster because we are so busy and we think other people are too.  If you want to do an hour preparation version and make your own crust there are other recipes for that.   You can Julienne the carrots but I found that shredded carrots are pretty much the same and you can buy those pre-shredded to save time or shred them yourself to save money.

Some Modifications

Here's a how post on how to Julienne if you want to do it yourself and save a little money.  You can also buy them pre-shredded.    The green onions from California pizza kitchen are also cut longwise but for ours, we just sliced them horizontally, it's not much different except for the look.    They told me that they marinate their chicken in an oil and garlic marinade and we did not do this step for speed and couldn't taste the difference.

Variations

California Pizza kitchen uses partially crushed peanuts as well and we didn't add those but it's inexpensive and easy to do if you want to.  We also added cilantro even though they neglected to put it on the one they gave us.  It is listed as an ingredient on their menu but we caught it and added it here.   You always get slightly different versions when you eat out depending on who is on duty. You can also put less cheese on top, we added a bit more than was on the one we bought from them.

Here's what you need to make the Copycat California Pizza Kitchen Thai Pizza Chicken Pizza:

• 1 premade thin crust whole grain wheat or cauliflower pizza crust, 12 inches or more
• 2 grilled or poached chicken breasts, shredded or cut into inch long rectangle slices
• 1 cup shredded or julienned carrots
• 1 cup bean sprouts
• 1 bundle of green onions, cut into 1-inch slivers or horizontally works fine
• 1 bundle of fresh cilantro
• 2 cups part-skim mozzarella cheese
• For the Sauce, you can buy store-bought Thai peanut sauce for speed or go for healthier homemade versions and use our recipes.
  • 1 cup lite coconut milk
  • ½ cup peanut butter-regular, high protein, crunchy or whatever you prefer
  • ½ cup water
  • 2 tablespoon red curry paste, store-bought or we have a recipe for homemade paste here
  • 2 tablespoon light brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt (optional) If you need low sodium just skip this
  • 1 tablespoon ginger paste
  • 1 tablespoon lite soy sauce or Thai seasoning sauce
  • *Or you can simply make one of the two peanut sauce recipes we've posted and use them if you like them.

Thai Peanut Sauce

Healthier Thai Peanut Sauce with Added Protein

How to make the Copycat California Pizza Kitchen Thai Pizza Kitchen Pizza:

1. Make the peanut sauce by combining all the ingredients in a blender.
2. Boil the peanut sauce for 1 minute to combine the ingredients if you like it smoother.
3. Heat the oven to 400 degrees on bake, or whatever your pizza crust calls for.
4. While the oven is heating spread the peanut sauce evenly over the crust leaving a little gap at the edge of the crust.  Thicker sauce equals more peanut flavor.
5. Sprinkle a layer of cheese over the peanut sauce, followed by a layer of green onion, carrots, cilantro, bean sprouts, peanuts, and chicken.
6. Sprinkle another layer of cheese over that followed by another thin layer of vegetables.
7. Cook for the time recommended on the label of premade pizza crust.
8. Add more fresh toppings as desired, our pizza came with some bean sprouts that were cold and fresh on top.
9. Serve Hot!!

Some notes

**** According to this copycat recipe, you'll have a whole-grain or cauliflower, homemade Thai chicken pizza (12 in.), we don't have a brick oven for pizza as they do so ours is baked in a conventional oven. ****

For this copycat recipe, we spent approximately $28 for all the ingredients but had enough for 2 pizzas making them about $14 ea. with ingredients to spare for other recipes.  We were also able to control exactly what went in.  This helps eliminate the risk of getting sick and decreases the number of processed ingredients, such as refined wheat.

As always, we make our recipes as healthy as we can but check it out with your doctor if you have special concerns.  We also want to know if we are missing something or can do something better in the future.

Printable Recipe Below

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