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This salad pizza is for the topping-lover in all of us. The crust is so amazing you'll begin stealing someone else's!

With this recipe, you can enjoy all the goodness of pizza with the nutrition of a salad. An epic pizza night you can customize with your favorite toppings!

salad pizza cut into slices on a cutting board

What is a Salad Pizza?

Salad pizza is a kind of pizza that includes classic salad ingredients over a cheesy crust. Like salads and pizzas, there are no rules when it comes to adding a variety of toppings. That said, salad pizza usually includes some kind of green leaf.

In this Salad Pizza recipe, I’m adding classic Cobb salad ingredients as toppings, including bacon, hard-boiled eggs, blue cheese, and lettuce; all of them placed over a homemade pizza crust with cheese and tomato sauce. You can use a frozen cheese pizza too!

Best Toppings for Salad Pizza

Whether you make the pizza crust from scratch or use that frozen cheese pizza waiting in the freezer, the toppings are what turn pizza into epic salad pizza! Here are some of the best toppings you can add:

Pizza sauce: your favorite tomato sauce.
Mozzarella: a pizza classic! Of course, you can use other cheeses.
Bacon slices: cooked and chopped, it’s super delicious!
Hard-boiled eggs: unexpected, yet a great topping for salad pizza.
Corn: crunchy and slightly sweet, adds more salad vibes.
Black olives: or your favorite olives.
Blue cheese crumbles: if you want to make this pizza even more cheesy.
Shredded lettuce: because it’s not just pizza, it’s salad pizza!

Can You Put Lettuce on a Pizza?

Yes! While you usually wouldn’t expect lettuce in your pizza, you can add it for salad pizza. Just keep in mind you will add the lettuce after baking the pizza.

How to Make Salad Pizza

This Cobb Salad Pizza comes together as quickly as any other pizza. This step-by-step includes how to make the delicious dough, but if you’re using a frozen cheese pizza, jump to step 6.

Activate the yeast
To activate the yeast, you combine it with water, honey, and olive oil in a small bowl and let it sit for 10 minutes. Once you see about 1-2 inches of foam at the top, the yeast is ready.
Form the dough
You mix flour and salt in a bowl, and once they are mixed well, you slowly add the yeast water. Mix with your hand or the paddle attachment, until you can form a "dough" ball.
Knead
Dust your countertop with flour to keep the dough from sticking and, with your hands, give it a thorough quick knead. If the dough is “sticky”, dust a little flour on top and knead. It shouldn't be super sticky or rock-hard, it will have a play-dough texture.
Transfer
You transfer the dough to a large bowl rubbed with olive oil. Give it a turn or two so the dough is also coated with olive oil.
Let the dough rise
Now, you cover the dough with plastic wrap or a clean kitchen towel and place it in a warm spot to rise for about 1 to 1 ½ hours.
Prep the oven
If you’re using a baking sheet, preheat the oven to 375F. If using a pizza stone, preheat the oven to 550F with the pizza stone inside.
Knead the dough again
Knead the dough a couple of times over a floured surface to form a ball. With a large knife, you divide the dough into two round balls.
Make a round base
You roll out each dough ball on a floured surface into a 12-inch round base. Transfer the shaped dough on top of a lightly floured baking sheet or pizza paddle (if you’re using a pizza stone).
Add the toppings
Now it’s time to add the pizza sauce, the cheese and all the toppings of your choice, except the shredded lettuce.
Bake
You bake the first salad pizza until the edges are golden and have risen. It takes 25 minutes if using a baking sheet or 7-9 minutes with a pizza stone. You repeat the process with the second pizza.
Serve
Once the pizza is done, remove it from the oven and top with shredded lettuce and olive oil.

Can You Use Frozen Pizza?

For busy nights when kneading a pizza is not an option, I use a frozen cheese pizza, as I do in my Greek Pizza recipe. It’s a convenient way to take a homemade meal to the table fast without ordering pizza! You add the toppings as I do in this recipe, and an epic dinner will be ready quickly!

Can You Reheat Salad Pizza?

While nothing stops you from reheating salad pizza leftovers, it won’t be the same since the lettuce texture will wilt. If there are leftovers around, store them in the fridge and enjoy them cold or at room temperature the next day!

What to Serve with a Salad Pizza

This salad pizza has everything you want from a tasty family dinner. That said, if you want to add more flavor and nutrition, serve this pizza with a simple side salad, a tasty antipasto salad, or this refreshing Panzanella Salad.

Cobb Salad Pizza

Servings: 8

Prep Time: 2

Cook Time: 30

Total Time: 2 30

This salad pizza is for the topping-lover in all of us. The crust is so amazing you'll begin stealing someone else's!

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Ingredients

Dough:

1 cup warm water, about 120F
3 teaspoons active dry yeast
1 tablespoon honey or sugar
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt

Pizza:

1 cup pizza sauce
1 ½ cups mozzarella
4 slices of bacon, cooked and chopped
4 hard-boiled eggs, chopped
½ cup corn, optional
⅓ cup black olives, sliced
¼ cup blue cheese crumbles
2 cups shredded romaine lettuce, topping after it's cooked
Olive oil, to drizzle

Instructions

Make the pizza dough:

In a small bowl, combine warm water, yeast, honey and olive oil. Let it sit for about 10 minutes for the yeast to activate. Once you see about 1-2 inches of foam at the top, the yeast is ready.
In a large bowl, or the bowl of your stand mixer, add the flour and salt. Mix it well. Slowly add the yeast water and mix it, either with your hands or the paddle attachment, until you can form a "dough" ball.
Dust your countertop with flour and transfer the dough out of the bowl. With your hands, give it a thorough quick knead. The dough shouldn't be super sticky or rock hard, it will have a play-dough texture. If the dough is "sticky" dust a little more flour on top and give it a quick knead.

Let the dough rise:

Rub a large bowl with olive oil then place the dough inside. Give it a turn or two so the dough is also coated with olive oil. Cover with plastic wrap or a clean kitchen towel and place in a warm spot to rise for about 1 to 1 ½ hours.

Prep the oven:

If using a baking sheet, preheat oven to 375F. If using a pizza stone, preheat the oven to 550F with the pizza stone inside with the rack positioned at the bottom of the oven.

Make the pizzas:

Transfer the dough out of the bowl onto a floured surface. Knead it a couple of times to compact the dough and form a ball. Using a large knife, divide the dough into two round balls.
Roll out each dough ball on a floured surface into a 12-inch round base. Transfer the shaped dough on top of a lightly floured baking sheet or pizza paddle if you're using a pizza stone.
Spread ½ cup pizza sauce on top of the dough, leaving a ½-inch border all the way around. Distribute the cheese over the sauce and load up the toppings, except the shredded lettuce.

Bake:

On a baking sheet: bake for about 25 minutes, until edges are golden and have risen.
On a pizza stone: bake for 7-9 minutes, until the edges are golden and have risen.
Repeat this process with the second pizza.