Taco Pizza Skillet
Taco Pizza is like two meals in one. Pizza dough topped with all your favorite taco toppings and cooked up in a skillet for the gooey pizza meal your family will love.
If your family loves pizza you definitely need to try this cheesy skillet pizza, sausage and pepperoni pizza, or meatball pizza, all are made in a cast iron skillet and perfect served as party appetizers too.
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Taco Pizza
Pizza, how do you live without it? Now you can have “taco Tuesday” and introduce yourself to “skillet Saturday” and enjoy every delectable bite by combining two of the worlds most happy foods into one with this taco pizza.
It doesn’t get any easier than this taco pizza made hot and fresh in your cast iron skillet. Load up your pizza with all the ground beef, cheese, and onions your can handle, pop it in the oven for 15 minutes, then top it with olives, tomatoes, green onions, cilantro and sour cream and what you have is a taco pizza masterpiece.
What is the sauce on taco pizza?
Use your favorite pizza sauce or if you make homemade sauce that is great too, and mix it with a can of refried beans and spread it evenly over the pizza dough to use as your “sauce.”
How to make taco pizza
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Using store bought dough or homemade, roll the dough out into about a 1/2 inch thickness. Place the dough in the cast iron skillet so enough hangs over the side. Fold the sides inward to form a crust and make a few 1 inch slits in the bottom of the dough. Cook for 10 minutes.
- Cook ground beef until know longer pink and set aside. In a bowl mix together refried beans and salsa and layer over the bottom of pizza crust for the sauce and top with cooked ground beef, cheese, and olives.
- Bake for an additional 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is melted and bubbling. Top with onions, fresh diced tomatoes, cilantro and sour cream, slice and enjoy.
Making taco pizza is fast and easy to do and makes a great week night meal or you can cut it up into small square pieces and serve it as an appetizer at your next party.
But lets be honest, we all love pizza of some sort so why not mix two of the greatest meals on the planet for one amazing taco pizza.
How do you make taco pizza with crescent rolls?
This is a really good recipe for crescent pizza rolls, but instead of using pepperoni and plain pizza sauce, you can add in the refried bean sauce, ground beef, cheese, and olives and make a delicious taco pizza with crescent rolls.
If you are looking to have a pizza night or just want to serve up some simple and easy appetizers for the new year, Super Bowl, or a rowdy group of kids , this taco pizza will be the perfect recipe for all their eating enjoyment.
Are you looking for more appetizer recipes? Here are some I think you will love.
- White chocolate chex mix
- Parmesan chicken meatball skillet
- Honey garlic meatballs
- Philly cheeseburger pizza
- Spicy sausage cheese balls
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Taco Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 container pizza dough or homemade pizza dough
- ½ can refried beans
- ½ cup pizza sauce
- ½ pound ground beef cooked
- 1-1/2 cups grated mozzarella cheese
- 1-1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese
- 1/3 cup diced white onions
- ½ cup sliced black olives
- ½ cup chopped tomatoes
- 1 green onion diced
- chopped cilantro for garnishing
- Sour cream for garnishing.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Using store bought dough or homemade, roll the dough out into about a 1/2 inch thickness. Place the dough in the cast iron skillet so enough hangs over the side. Fold the sides inward to form a crust and make a few 1-inch slits in the bottom of the dough. Cook for 10 minutes.
- Cook ground beef until know longer pink and set aside. In a bowl mix together refried beans and salsa and layer over the bottom of pizza crust for the sauce and top with cooked ground beef, cheese, and olives.
- Bake for an additional 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown and cheese is melted and bubbling. Top with onions, fresh diced tomatoes, cilantro and sour cream, slice and enjoy.
