Recipe & Giveaway: Chicken Fajita Grilled Pizza with Ragu Pasta Sauce {Win a $200 Gift Card! – Contest Ended}

Congratulations, Amie won this giveaway!

As you might know, I am a Ragu “Mom’s The Word On Dinner” Ambassador, and I’m very proud and excited about that as you’ll see in this post.

Being a Ragu “Mom’s The Word on Dinner” Ambassador gives me the opportunity to branch out with our dinner recipes and cook some delicious meals, one of which I enjoyed with my family this week.

This week’s fun Ragu recipe was Chicken Fajita Grilled Pizza with Ragu Sauce.

Grilled Chicken Fajita Pizza with Ragu Pasta Sauce

Here is the Chicken Fajita Grilled Pizza with Ragu Sauce with a few customizations:

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. boneless, skinless chicken breasts
  • 2 large poblano or medium green bell peppers
  • 1 large red onion, cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices
  • 2 (12-inch) prebaked pizza crusts
  • 1-1/2 cups Ragú® Old World Style® Tomato & Mozzarella Pasta Sauce
  • 3 cups shredded Monterey Jack or cheddar cheese (about 12 oz.)
  • 2 Tbsp. chopped fresh cilantro
  • 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
  • Customizations we made: 12 mushrooms, anchovies

Directions

  1. Lightly coat chicken and onion with oil, then season, if desired, with salt and ground black pepper. Grill chicken, onion and peppers, turning once, 8 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked and vegetables are tender. Don’t be alarmed when the peppers turn black while grilling. The skin will easily peel or slip off after cooling. Wrap peppers in aluminum foil; let stand 5 minutes, then remove skin and thinly slice.
    Thinly slice chicken; set aside. We also sprayed one dozen mushrooms with olive oil spray and grilled them.
  2. Grill top side of pizza crusts 1 minute; remove from grill. Evenly spread pizzas with Ragu® Old World Style® Tomato & Mozzarella Pasta Sauce, then evenly top with chicken, vegetables and cheese. Grill pizzas, covered, 3 minutes or until cheese is melted. Sprinkle with cilantro. Serve, if desired, with additional heated Sauce and diced avocado.

My entire family enjoyed the pizza and my son even added a few anchovies to his three slices! My daughter enjoyed a couple of plain sauce and cheese slices while my husband put red peppers and onions on his slices.

This is a quick and easy meal to prepare and as you read above, pizza toppings can be customized for everyone in your family.

Be sure to visit the recipe section of Ragu’s website where you will find recipes for even the pickiest of eaters!

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284 thoughts on “Recipe & Giveaway: Chicken Fajita Grilled Pizza with Ragu Pasta Sauce {Win a $200 Gift Card! – Contest Ended}

  1. Thanks for the giveaway…my sisters & I used to make movies when we were kids with our fathers old 8 mm movie camera; one of the movies featured a car crash where we used Ragu sauce as fake blood !

    senorpiero [at] yahoo [dot] com

  2. Ragu is perfect when used as a dip for bread sticks or mozzarella sticks.
    And the chunky garden style with green peppers and onions is great when used to make a pot of chili.

    jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com

  3. Just yesterday I was adding some Ragu to our leftover raviolis. While stirring I splashed some on my face accidently, had to run to check out my new orange freckles.

  4. Once I had a plate of spaghetti and sauce and when I sat down it immediately slide off my plate and onto my lap. That’s not a happy sauce moment though. 🙂

  5. My male cousin is a wonderful cook. He’d made spaghetti for a crowd, and everyone told him how good it was! Later, he confessed that the sauce was from a jar, but that he’d added extra spices to it!!
    Thanks for the giveaway!

  6. I have used pasta sauce in place of tomato paste when hubby wanted sloppy joes. He loved it way better than the traditional recipe he is used to eating.

  7. I like to take pasta sauce and spread it on a toasted bagel half then sprinkle it with shredded mozzarella and microwave it until the cheese is melted! Makes a great snack!

    Dara Nix
    kitty32504 at cox dot net

  8. My oldest is 28 now, but when she was a baby two of her favorite things were spaghetti and her bath and she learned really young- she could eat most of the spaghetti, dump the bowl on her head, get more pasta then get a bath- it was a riot.

    My fave way to use spaghetti sauce is by making Italian sausage & pepper hoagies with melted provolone – YUM.

  9. My favorite memories regarding pasta sauce was learning how to make it from scratch with my Italian Mother in Law. Every Sunday she would start peeling the tomatoes at 5 in the morning, preparing the spices etc… and slow cook the whole thing all day. Best Sauce I have ever had and I enjoyed our time together making it

  10. We like to make pizza subs w/ Pasta Sauce. All you need is hot dog buns, meatballs, Ragu pasta sauce, and any shredded cheese. The kids love these!

  11. My favorite pasta sauce memory is visiting my grandmother’s house. When I went to stay with her she always made me spaghetti. The simmering sauce through the house. It was something she always did for me.
    gabe411 at hotmail dot com

  12. My fave pasta memory sauce is putting it on heated chop up hot dogs, with chopped up onions and piling it on a piece of thick toasted Greek bread-yum

  13. I ican laugh about it now, but barely! I’d just finished making a huge pot of delicious spaghetti for the family and was carrying it over to the table when I dropped it. It fell at just the right angle so that Spaghetti and Sauce went everywhere! Not only was I covered in it, but so was the kitchen! The kids and my hubby burst out laughing to see me dripping with spaghetti and pasta sauce. They still crack up to this day when someone brings it up!

  14. I remember growing up that my Stepmom would sometimes make us “pizza”, but it was toast with pasta sauce and shredded cheese on top. 🙂

  15. I make pizza rollups using crescent rolls and pasta sauce, you get the big sheets of crescent rolls, fill it down the middle with sauce, sausage, cheese, fold over and bake, so good!

  16. Apparently the use of the sauce as pizza sauce is pretty common–it works really well on English muffins to make a mini-pizza, which is a good snack or quick lunch.

  17. I tried to make it from scratch and it turned out so amazingly terrible that I had to throw out the whole batch. Luckily I had some Ragu on hand for dinner.

    wolverina401 at gmail dot com

  18. Growing up, my mom taught me several creative uses for pasta sauce, my favorite being as a topping for hamburgers. She’d surprise me and my sister with pizza burgers, topping them with marinara sauce and melted mozzarella and provolone cheese and serving them on garlic Texas toast. And now I’m doing the same thing with my leftover sauce. Thanks!

    gkaufmanss at yahoo dot com

  19. My kids love it when we make mini pizza snacks out of whole wheat crackers, Pizza Sauce, whatever cheese we have on hand and sometimes pepperoni.

  20. one day i was out of pizza sauce and my roommates and i were STARVING! we grabbed a jar of the meat ragu sauce and used that instead. we discovered it is the holy grail of pizza sauces and will use nothing else now!

  21. Growing up our tradition was the birthday person got to pick their favorite birthday dinner…either a restaurant or a favorite dish on their special day. My father’s birthday request was always my mother’s spaghetti with homemade meatballs. My mother couldn’t make a pasta sauce to save her soul but she does make a mean meatball. My father’s been gone now for 5 years but every year, on his birthday, we go to my mother’s house to enjoy spaghetti and meatballs, salad and always a birthday cake to remember my dad.

  22. My nieces and I would make mini pizzas by toasting english muffins, adding sauce and toppings then putting them in the oven to melt. It was a quick pizza fix.

  23. My favorite pasta sauce memory is making spaghetti and meatballs every Sunday with my dad. My job was to stir the sauce. I felt so special.

  24. As kids my sister and I would put pizza sauce on english muffins and top with mozzarella cheese for our own little personal pan pizzas. I showed my kids this quick and easy snack and they love making their own too!

  25. Ooh wow, that looks so yummy! I need to try that recipe. I use Ragu sauce on our sub sandwiches, I also sometimes add a packet of Splenda in our Ragu sauce when we use it on pasta and meatballs, and I also sometimes like to add sun-dried tomatoes to our Ragu. Thanks!

  26. I happen to only use Ragu sauce because that was the only sauce used in my home since I was kid and I usually can pick up if another sauce is used. Besides using the chunky garden sauce on pasta I use it to make my chicken Parmesan, which I bread, bake, then pour the sauce on the top. DELICIOUS!!!

  27. Being Italian, it is difficult to name something I DON’T use sauce (or, gravy!) for. Our son (2 1/2) has recently started to use sauce as you would, let’s say, ketchup. He will dip anything into sauce – he has even asked for “sauce dip” for potato chips, pretzels, and PICKLES! Still unsure if I should be proud or ….. not proud. Eugh! LOL 🙂

  28. I sometimes make my favorite pasta sauce–start with Ragu. Add ground beef, onions, garlic, can of Rotel tomatoes w/green chilies, dash of crushed red peppers–and seal it in bread dough and bake.

  29. When my son was young, I grew zucchini for the first time, lots of zucchini, too much zucchini 🙂 I made up a zucchini dish with tomato sauce and it ended up being a big hit. He was one happy camper at lunchtime 🙂 Thank you for the giveaway and for the memories.

  30. For a quick lunch, we used to top off English Muffins with Ragu, veggies, spices and throw them in the oven for a few minutes. the kids loved them.

  31. I still have memories of smelling my Italian grandmother’s sauce simmering in her kitchen. I wish I could make it the way she did!

  32. my favorite memory is the first time i let my daughter eat rigitoni alone, i love remembering how much fun she had splattering the sauce all over , lol and of course dumping the plate on top of her head!!

  33. Being from an Italian family.. It is gravy 🙂 lol One of my favorites is making Shrimp Scampi with Linguini. Thank you for having the giveaway!

  34. Oh, your pizza sounds so good! Of course I would sub black olives for the chicken but thats just me!

    I think our families favorite thing to do with Ragu is to make mini, personal sized pizzas with biscuits for the dough! I just set out a ton of toppings and let everyone make their own. Bonus that the kids are more willing to eat pizza with veggies on it if they did it themselves!

  35. We have a super cute picture of my oldest son when he was about 1 1/2 years old eating pasta by hiself and it is all over his face! It is such a cute picture!

  36. I follow you on FB & Twitter, plus tweeted the giveaway -https://twitter.com/#!/MommyTalkShow/status/114140124010381312

    My favorite experience with pasta sauce is a night, like tonight, when I made macaroni & pasta sauce for my 18 month old son, A.J. He’s crazy about it and often rubs sauce into his hair.

  37. I spice up spaghetti by adding some bmexican tomatoes.
    THANKS for the AWESOME GIVEAWAY!!!

    Scott Martin
    spmartin122 at gmail dot com

  38. my favorite pasta memory is my mom’s homeade sauce that she doesn’t make anymore.. the best EVER! I wish I could eat it again.. so delicious with tons of garlic!

  39. Yum, wonderful recipe. We actually go through a LOT of pasta sauce. My favorite non-pasta use is as a dip for grilled cheese. It is thicker and more flavorful than tomato soup and as a bonus if you serve it cool with a hot sandwich it cools off the cheese quickly for little mouths 🙂 Plus you know kids love dipping!

  40. We also use pasta sauce on lightly toasted english muffins. After lightly toasting them in the broiler, we add on Ragu sauce and mozzarella cheese and then we broil until the cheese is melted. Quick pizza’s that everyone loves.
    Thanks so much.
    rickpeggysmith(at)aol(dot)com

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