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With this recipe, you’ll be able to make taco pizza with homemade or store-bought dough the easy way!
Homemade Taco Pizza
If you love tacos and love pizza, you’re going to love this recipe. While it didn’t quite make it into my book, the Taco Tuesday Cookbook, it’s so simple and delicious that you’ll want to make it on taco night and on pizza night!
The great thing about this recipe is that you can grab ground meat and cook it in a few minutes or repurpose leftovers and turn them into a delicious pizza, as I do with buffalo chicken in this incredible Loaded Buffalo Chicken Pizza recipe.
And just like tacos, this pizza can be customized with whatever you have on hand. Yes, that’s when you look around the kitchen and see that avocado that is just about to be too ripe, some olives, and a little marinara sauce in the bottom of a jar. You get the idea.
Ingredients
Grab your favorite pizza base and let’s add the most tasty toppings! Check out the delicious ingredients I use in this Taco Pizza recipe:
- Pizza dough: or use frozen cheese pizzas as the base.
- Ground beef or turkey: both make an epic taco pizza!
- Taco seasoning: infuse the meat with tons of delicious taco flavor.
- Tomato sauce: your favorite tomato sauce or salsa.
- Shredded cheese: use mozzarella, Cheddar, or a mix!
- Sliced black olives: or any olives you have around.
- Toppings: I love adding pico de gallo, sour cream, and avocado, but the sky is the limit!
How to Make a Taco Pizza
Easy as any other pizza, with the smell of tacos and pizza in the air, all everyone at home can think of is dinner – of course! Check out the tips to make this epic dinner a breeze to cook:
- Prep
If using pizza dough, allow it to cool down to room temperature. In the meantime, preheat the oven. - Cook the meat
Use taco meat leftovers or cook ground beef or turkey in the skillet. I often cook taco meat in the crockpot ahead of time and use it for many meals, including this pizza! - Assemble the pizza
Whether you use a pizza dough ball, tubes of dough, or frozen cheese pizza, it’s time to spread tomato and add the toppings! - Bake
You can bake your pizzas on a baking sheet or a pizza stone. Baking time will vary. - More toppings!
Once the pizza is ready, top it with pico de gallo, sour cream, avocado, or your favorite pizza toppings. Enjoy!
Check out how fun and easy it is to make in this short video:
Taco Pizza with Frozen Pizza
On busy nights, I like to use a pre-made frozen pizza crust or straight-out cheese pizza. While I admit there is nothing like homemade pizza, frozen pizza is an easy shortcut to serve a terrific meal in no time. Plus, no need to defrost! Just place the toppings, bake, and dinner is ready!
More Topping Ideas for Taco Pizza
Another reason my family loves this taco pizza is the toppings! I’ll set out a taco bar and everyone can top their slices with their favorite toppings. Personally, I go for avocado, pico de gallo, and a dollop of sour cream! Yummy! Here are other toppings that always are a winner with my family:
- Refried beans -instead of red sauce
- Green onions
- Diced onions
- Diced tomatoes
- Jalapeño slices
- Shredded lettuce
- Chopped spinach
- Bacon bits
- Bell pepper strips
What to Serve with Taco Pizza
Quick and easy sides like this corn and tomato salad, a simple everyday side salad, or this arugula salad are usually my go-to’s because they take minimal prep, and I can assemble them while the pizza bakes.
Taco Pizza Recipe
Watch how it’s made:
Ingredients
- 16- ounce ball of pizza dough*
- 1 lb ground beef or turkey
- 3 tablespoons Taco seasoning
- 1 cup tomato sauce, or salsa
- 2 cups shredded cheese, mozzarella, Cheddar, or a mix
- 8 ounces sliced black olives
- Toppings: pico de Gallo, sour cream, avocado
Instructions
Prep:
- Allow the pizza dough to come to room temperature on the counter for approximately 20 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 450F if using a baking sheet or to 500F with a pizza stone inside. Refrigerated tubes of pizza dough usually state 350F*. If using that, follow the package time and temperature directions.
- In a skillet over medium-high heat, brown the beef with the taco seasoning while breaking up the ground meat into small pieces.
Assemble the pizzas:
- Divide the pizza dough ball into two halves. Roll each half of the dough on a floured surface to your desired thickness and place it on a parchment-lined baking sheet. You can also roll out the entire dough and bake one large pizza on a large sheet pan. Personally, I prefer to divide the dough in half and bake two pizzas; I've found the edges get crisper, and the middles cook through better this way.
- If using tubes of dough, roll them out directly on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Spread half of the tomato sauce or thin salsa on the dough. Top with half of the cheese, cooked ground beef, and black olives.
Bake:
- If using pizza dough on a baking sheet at 450F, bake the pizza in the preheated oven for 12 minutes.
- Directly on a pizza stone at 500F, bake the pizzas for 7 to 9 minutes.
- Remove the pizza from the oven and top with pico de Gallo, sour cream, and sliced avocado. Repeat the process with the other half of the dough.
Karen says
Laura, Can’t wait to make this pizza. It looks wonderful. Thhank you.
Laura Fuentes says
I hope you love it Karen! 🙂