Taco Pizza!
My second gourmet pizza project began when I saw the basis for a great taco pizza recipe on Pizzamarketplace.com. I made a batch of Bill’s Traditional dough allowing it to rise in the breadmaker for almost 2 hours by mistake! It was over the top of the bread pan. I removed it, balled it and placed the balls in the refrigerator for later in the evening. The balls continued to rise to more than twice their size by 7:00 pm.
I gathered and prepared all of the ingredients for the taco pizza while the dough proofed. Here are the ingredients:
Base:
2/3 c – Taco Sauce
2/3 c – Pizza Sauce (I used my Neapolitan Sauce)
1/4 c – Refried beans
1 bag – Ortega brand Taco meat seasoning
1 lb. – Ground Beef
1 1/2 c – Mozzarella cheese
Topping (after baking):
Shredded Cheddar cheese
Shredded Lettuce
Chopped Tomato
Sliced Black Olives
Sour Creme
The beef was browned in a skillet and drained. Then I mixed in the packet of taco meat seasoning and some water as per the instructions on the bag. Assembly was easy. Once the dough was stretched, I mixed the taco sauce, pizza sauce, and refried beans and spread it on the blank. Next, a layer of mozzarella was laid with the taco meat sprinkled on top. Another layer of mozzarella was placed over the meat. The pizza baked for 11 minutes at 480 degrees.
Once out of the oven, the pizza was cut then topped with shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes and sliced black olives.
The flavor of the taco pizza was great! The base sauce had a great taste and had texture to it. The refried beans offset the tangy tomato and cheddar. This is a hearty pizza – an 11 inch pie fed 3 adults and two young children. I will definitely be making this one again soon!
October 12th, 2007 at 12:13 pm
This pizza cannot be beat. Brings me right back to my childhood days eating AWESOME taco pizza at Happy Joe’s Ice cream and Pizza parlor in Sheboygan, WI.
To make it even better, top it with Taco or salsa DORITO chips! YUM.
November 25th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Hi Folks
O.K. This looks great and we are going to try it. However, here is one for all those pizza makers out their.
We need a pizza without flour or gluetin!
We have a family member that cannot have ‘any’ flour by products or ceral grains. Try an make a pizza when that person loves pizza.
Can anyone in cyber world help us out!!
Thank You
JD
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
Best taco pizza ever!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Well, I just got done feasting on this amazing taco pizza and boy was it good! First of all, its better then Pizza Hut’s taco version, hands down. Second of all, Pizza Bill, you say an 11 inch pie fed 3 adults and two young children; well, you musta been not very hungry that day. I made one twice that size and ate 3/4 of it myself. Of course, I weigh in at 200 pounds and hadn’t eaten anything all day. Anyway, what a great recipe! My wife’s first response (after a bite) was that this tasted like Pizza Hut! I told her this was a “keeper” and put it in the recipe box. Ok, now I’m about comatose from eating so much, but it’s Pizza Bill’s fault.
December 8th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
I used this.. and its amazing! i loved it, i forgot alot of the stuff to put in it so i just threw some things in.. turns out i used exactly what you said.. thank you so much my inlaws were very impressed they their soon to be daughter in law can cook! thank you.
January 13th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
I made this recipe this past weekend…A.W.E.S.O.M.E.!! Jackie is right, this recipe is nearly identical to Happy Joe’s Pizza Palor in Sheboygan (no longer open
!!!). I’ve tried and tried to match their recipe and this is the closest! Thanks!
June 6th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Is there any way to let John D. know that his request can be answered (gluten free) by searching for Godfather’s Taco Pizza recipe? She offers a crust made with zucchini, eggs and cheese. It looks good.
December 9th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
My daughter is gluten intolerant and I make a really good homemade crust. I use this flour mix for a lot of my recipes. The base flour recipe is:
6 cups rice flour
2 cups potato starch
1 cup tapioca flour
2 tablespoons xanthan gum
The recipe for the crust:
1 pkg. yeast
1 cup warm water
2 tsp. sugar
1 tsp. salt
3 cups of the flour mix (or 2 1/2 if using regular flour with gluten)
Mix and let rest in a warm area for 10 minutes before rolling out on a pizza peel with corn meal on the bottom. Makes 2 crusts. Roll them out, use a fork to punch holes throughout and pre-bake at 400 degrees for 10 minutes.
June 26th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
You forgot the Doritos
August 28th, 2010 at 9:28 pm
This was great! I was trying to find a recipe similar to Happy Joes and this was a good one. The only difference is that Happy Joes does probably a half ground beef with taco seasoning and the other half pound italian sausage. And, yes, definitely taco flavored Doritos on top… with more taco sauce on top!
March 10th, 2011 at 10:47 am
Thank you for the recipe!!! The sauce in particular was SPOT ON! For the crust I ended up using Emeril’s ‘perfect pizza dough’ because i wanted to make mine in the Kitchen Aid and that worked out well. A few comments/suggestions for those interested:
1) Happy Joe’s uses sausage in addition to ground beef, i used half and half and cooked it w/ the taco seasoning per your instructions and that worked well.
2) There are no olives on the Happy Joe pizza, instead lettuce/tomato/and tortilla chips. I used lightly crushed Julios corn chips and it was perfect.
3) Happy Joe’s uses a mixture type shredded cheese, not mozarella. I tried using colby/monterrey jack mix and it worked out well, though the pizza probably needed an extra 1/2 cup of cheese…so more like 2 cups.
4) I split the dough into 2 and baked 2 pizzas. I baked it at 475 on a pizza stone for 8 minutes and the first one turned out perfect. The second pizza i think had too many toppings and i had problems transferring onto the pizza stone so it got stuck, and was hard to remove…didn’t work as well, but the first was perfect.
5) just as an fyi my partner worked at happy joe’s a long time ago and he says they would put down the crust, sauce it (he says the sauce had visible bean chunks), then put down small meat chunks (raw meat), and then the cheese (a mix of shredded cheese). After it baked it would get the lettuce, tomato, and chips and on the side for condiment taco sauce.