Healthy Barbecue Chicken Pizza with Sweet Potato Crust
Who says good pizza can’t be healthy? Or healthy pizza can’t taste good? Our famous Sweet Potato Pizza is topped with tangy BBQ chicken and delicious roasted veggies. It’s gluten free, dairy-free, and packed with protein. And it tastes ahh-mazing!!
Healthy Barbecue Chicken Pizza with Sweet Potato Crust
Pizza has been off the menu ever since I became lactose-intolerant about ten years ago. We also avoid gluten whenever possible, so that’s two strikes against those cheesy, doughy pies of deliciousness.
That is until my husband dreamed up the sweet potato crust pizza recipe that changed my life. Finally I can enjoy pizza without worry of an upset tummy! (Or busting a diet!)
And it is so so SO good.
I crave this pizza and once you try it, you will too!
The Critics Agree…this is the BEST Sweet Potato Pizza
Originally published in 2015, this is one of our all-time most popular recipes!
It has been featured in FitnessMagazine.com, Gourmandize, MSN.com, Daily Burn, and many, many food blogs!
We’ve also gotten tons of awesome feedback from readers who’ve tried our sweet potato crust, so I’ve added our favorite reader-submitted ideas and questions later in the post!
Why We Used Sweet Potatoes for the Crust
What makes this pizza different from other gluten free pizza recipes? Well, for one, sweet potatoes are super good for you!
Just a couple of the health benefits of sweet potatoes:
- Sweet potatoes provide a whopping 214% daily value of Vitamin A and 52% daily value of Vitamin C!
- Plus they’re a good source of manganese, B vitamins, biotin, fiber, and potassium! (Source)
So this is not only a recipe that fits into a gluten free or dairy free lifestyle, it’s actually a healthy pizza for anyone!
Another reason that we used sweet potatoes to make our pizza crust is that they create a fabulous texture and they’re gluten free!
It’s such a flavorful, hearty dish that you won’t even “miss” the real thing! And you feel good after eating it!
What you need to make sweet potato pizza crust:
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- Sweet potatoes
- Egg
- Almond flour
- Salt
- Dried oregano
- Dried basil
- Garlic powder
- Apple cider vinegar
Our Pizza Toppings:
- Barbecue sauce
- Tomato sauce
- Shredded rotisserie chicken (pre-cooked) – click here to learn how to make your own easy and thrifty rotisserie style chicken at home!
- Chopped spinach
- Red onion, sliced and sautéed
How to make sweet potato pizza crust
Pre-heat oven to 400°F.
Cook sweet potatoes in microwave until soft, peel, and add to a large mixing bowl with almond flour, egg, salt, dried oregano, dried basil, garlic powder, and apple cider vinegar.
(For an extra kick, add a pinch of chili powder.)
Mash ingredients until well combined and the mixture takes on a doughy consistency.
Spread on a Pizza Stone
(you could also use a Silicon Baking Mat
or greased baking sheet) and cook in oven at 400° for 30 minutes.
Remove from oven and spread a mixture of barbecue and tomato sauce on top of the crust.
Layer with chicken, spinach, and red onion. Return pizza to oven and bake for an additional 10 minutes with toppings.
Remove from oven and drizzle with BBQ sauce.
Full printable recipe available for free at the bottom of the post. Click here to jump to printable recipe.
Can you cook the sweet potatoes in advance?
Absolutely! If you do meal planning, this recipe is perfect because you can cook the sweet potatoes at the beginning of the week, refrigerate, and use them to make the crust on the day you’re planning to serve pizza.
Simply cook the sweet potatoes, cool, and store in the fridge until ready to use. Cooked sweet potatoes last up to 5 days refrigerated.
How can I make the pizza crust crispier?
You can see from the photos there is a beautiful crispness to the edge of the sweet potato crust. It holds up really well with as many ingredients as we piled on, though it’s probably easiest to eat with a fork.
However, if you’re craving an extra crispy crust, this reader submitted tip works great:
- After cooking sweet potato crust for 30 minutes, flip and cook for an additional 5-7 minutes to get it extra crispy. Then add your toppings and cook as normal.
What can I use instead of almond flour?
If you don’t have almond flour on hand, or prefer to use something else, you can substitute all-purpose gluten free flour.
More of our favorite sweet potato recipes:
- Loaded Sweet Potato Donuts
- Homemade Sweet Potato Pie
- Scalloped Sweet Potatoes with Candied Pecans
- Sweet Potato Mac & Cheese
- Apple Pie Sweet Potato Donuts
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Healthy Sweet Potato Pizza with BBQ Chicken - Gluten Free, Non Dairy
Equipment
- Pizza Stone
Ingredients
Sweet potato crust ingredients:
- 3 sweet potatoes medium
- 1 cup almond flour
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
Toppings:
- 1 cup pre-cooked rotisserie chicken shredded
- 1 cup spinach chopped
- 1 red onion thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup barbecue sauce
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
Instructions
To make the sweet potato crust:
- Pre-heat oven to 400°.
- Cook sweet potatoes in microwave until soft.
- Peel sweet potatoes and add to large mixing bowl with almond flour, egg, salt, dried oregano, dried basil, garlic powder, and apple cider vinegar. (For an extra kick, add a pinch of chili powder.) Mash ingredients until well combined and the mixture takes on a doughy consistency.
- Use rubber spatula to spread on a Pizza Stone (you could also use a Silicon Baking Mat or greased baking sheet.) You want the crust dough to be no more than 1/2" thick to cook evenly.
- Cook dough at 400° for 30 minutes.
To finish the sweet potato crust pizza:
- While pizza dough is baking: shred 1 cup of pre-cooked rotisserie chicken, chop 1 cup spinach, and sauté one thinly sliced medium red onion until soft.
- Remove pizza dough from oven and spread 1/2 cup barbecue sauce and 1/2 cup tomato sauce on top.
- Cover pizza with shredded rotisserie chicken, chopped spinach, and red onions. Drizzle with barbecue sauce.
- Return pizza to oven and bake for an additional 10 minutes. Slice and enjoy!
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Nutrition
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I picked a great night to invite myself for dinner! It truly was delicious and satisfying in the way real pizza is.
Just about every night is a good night to come over for dinner! But the pizza WAS amazing!
Do you have the nutritional information for this recipie?
Hi Megan! I don’t have nutrition data because there are quite a few variables that could affect the exact amounts (example: the type of barbecue sauce, the size of the sweet potatoes, etc). I don’t count calories on a regular basis, but what you might try is looking up a nutrition search website and entering in the exact ingredients you used (a lot of these sites will have brand-specific data). That way you could get a rough estimate for your pizza as a whole, and then divide that by the number of servings. I don’t think that this would be a “low-calorie” food, but it is gluten-free, dairy-free, and packed with vitamins and protein, so in my book that is a healthy food 🙂
I made this for dinner tonight and it was amazing! Even my husband, who doesn’t really care for sweet potatoes loved it! Thank you for sharing this recipe
I’m so glad that you loved it Jacqueline and thank you for letting me know! I was just thinking that I need to request it for dinner again soon 🙂
Could I use another type of flour to replace the almond flour?
Sure! We use almond flour because it’s one of our favorite gluten-free options, but you could use whichever type your prefer.
Hi, I just made this for dinner and was super pleased with the taste and getting more vegetables on my plate. Just one question, how many grams of sweet potato do you use? Cause 3 medium Australian sweet potatoes was way too much and I had to add more flour to get a dough texture.
Hi Kylie! I’m so glad you enjoyed the sweet potato pizza! I honestly couldn’t tell you the exact amount in grams, as we don’t have a food scale. Generally, my husband does exactly as you did– if there seems to be a bit too much potato, he’ll add more flour to balance it out.
This was SO good!! The first good pizza we’ve tried! I can’t stand most paleo-ish crusts, they usually have arrowroot or tapioca flour which make the crust have this weird texture. Your crust recipe is outstanding- we love the flavors and the texture. We made a couple allergy friendly modifications, we used a gelatin egg in place of the egg and I made two AIP bbq sauces to put on the pizza. Soooo so so good. Thanks!!
Hi Jessica- I’m so glad that you loved this!! Thank you for letting me know! 🙂 I’m sure your allergy-friendly substitutions could come in handy for other readers.
This looks so good! And I love the idea of making sweet potato crust. My family is also made up of pizza lovers so it’s nice to have a healthy alternative to the traditional carb and cheese loaded pizza. I did recently find a great tool on Registered Dietician Sofia Abdelkafi’s website that analyzes my recipes to tell me whether they are healthy or not. It’s been really helpful because it lets me put my family’s favorites to the test to see if I need to make any changes. You can check it out here: http://sheismynutritionist.com/recipe-analyzer/
Sounds like a useful tool!
Do you think substituting another kind of flour would be ok? Right now I have brown rice flour, whole wheat, and white ?
Nevermind I see this already been asked and answered!
Let me know which you use and how it goes! 🙂 Any flour with gluten will change the consistency slightly, but it should still taste fantastic!
I used brown rice flour…. It came out delicious! I also just used marinara sauce because I realized I was out of bbq in the midst of the recipe, and piled on veggies. I’ve had bad experiences trying to make cauliflower crust, but this was incredibly easy. Thank you so much!
That sounds amazing! I’ve been curious to try cauliflower crust, but so far I haven’t heard any positive reviews. I might have to see if my husband is up for the challenge!
The taste was fantastic and I love the concept but I can’t believe you recommended baking it on a pizza stone! The whole thing stuck. I managed to chisel pieces off and put on a parchment lined cookie sheet before the topping stage and it turned out messy but yummy. I had a bad feeling about putting it in my well seasoned pizza stone but I figured you knew something I didn’t about the stickiness of the dough… Too bad. Next time, I’ll cook on a parchment-lined pan.
I’m sorry that you had trouble with the pizza sticking — it could be the type/brand of stone is different than ours. Glad you were able to enjoy it even if it turned out a bit messy 🙂 Thanks for sharing the tip about the parchment paper– it could be useful to readers who don’t have a pizza stone too.
I just made this for my husband and I this evening–it’s amazing! Thanks for sharing it!!
Awesome!! Thank you for letting me know!