INGREDIENTS

• 2 x balls pre-made pizza dough or base

Buttermilk marinade

• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• Juice of small half a lemon
• 2 x 200g (average sized) free-range chicken breasts

For the pizza sauce:

• 3 tablespoons light olive oil
• Handful of fresh parsley leaves
• Handful of fresh basil leaves
• 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
• 2 tablespoons sour cream
• Juice of half a small lemon
• Small pinch of tarragon (approx. 4-5 leaves)
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper

• 1 cup walnuts, roughly chopped
• Handful or two watercress leaves
• 50g Parmesan cheese, grated
• Lemon wedges for serving

METHOD

1. Pre heat oven to 200C fan-forced (if using a regular oven to bake pizzas)
2. To make the marinade, add buttermilk, Dijon mustard and lemon juice into a medium-sized bowl, season with salt and pepper whisk together to combine.
3. Remove excess fat from the chicken breasts and cut the chicken crossway into  cm thick strips.¬† Add the chicken to the marinade, cover with cling film and leave in the fridge for 3 hours.
4. After chilling, cook chicken pieces on a hot griddle pan until almost cooked through. Allow to rest on paper towel.
5. To make the pizza sauce, add all ingredients into a food processor and whizz until smooth.
6. To assemble the pizzas; roll out dough to your desired thickness and place on pizza stone or pizza maker paddles. Divide sauce evenly over both pizza bases and spread out leaving a 2cm border around the pizza edge (if you have any sauce remaining, retain to serve with the pizzas). Top pizzas with pre-cooked chicken strips, scatter with walnuts then bake in pizza maker or in standard oven on a stone until base is cooked through (12-15 mins).
7. To serve, drizzle any remaining sauce over the pizzas (you can add a little EVOO to make it go further and to allow it to drizzle easier), top with a handful torn watercress leaves, sprinkle with grated Parmesan and serve with lemon wedges to squeeze over pizza when cut and freshly ground black pepper.

Makes 2 pizzas