Make your own Taco Pizza for a quick and easy family meal or as a warm appetizer that can be customized to your own tastes!
Taco night and pizza night are both favorites at our house. So one evening we decided to try to combine them into Taco Pizza! And no, it isn’t just getting beef on a regular pizza. I wanted it to truly combine the best of both meals.
My favorite part of a pizza: the doughy crust. Not the edge-of-the-pizza-with-no-toppings crust, but the under-everything-else crust. My least favorite part of a taco: the shell because they always fall apart.
Taco Pizza uses a pizza crust with typical taco fillings on top. Instead of red sauce, I used a combination of cream cheese and sour cream. The cream cheese helps to thicken up the sour cream without adding too much flavor. I was worried that having only sour cream would be too thin and the toppings would fall off.
Other than that, we made the rest of the toppings for this Taco Pizza in the same way we would make it for regular taco night. Similar to tacos, you can make this pizza customized for each person depending on which toppings they prefer.
The pieces you see photographed were Justin’s because he will eat it with everything on top! I don’t like fresh tomatoes, so mine didn’t have that. For the boys, we did only a very small amount of each vegetable in an attempt to get them to eat something new. Spoiler alert: they still weren’t very fond of this meal. But, we are working on it.
For simplicity and time management, I used prepackaged pizza dough. When I don’t make my own dough, I buy the one canned near the biscuits at the grocery store. It isn’t quite as fluffy and delicious as homemade, but it’s much quicker when I don’t have time for the bread machine to make the dough.
Homemade Taco Seasoning
I’ve been making my own taco seasoning. The flavor is a bit different from the store-bought, but it’s much cheaper and saves on a lot of packaging waste. I make this in a large amount and then use what I need. The rest stays stored with all of my herbs and spices.
Simple Ingredients
Pizza Dough
The easiest method is to purchase refrigerated pizza dough from your local grocery store if you don’t want to make homemade pizza dough. If you can’t find pizza dough, you can also use crescent roll dough and roll that out, pinching the seams together to seal the crescent rolls into a large dough.
Ground Beef
Browned ground beef is the base for most tacos, so that’s what was used for this easy taco pizza recipe. You can substitute it with other meat or beans if needed.
Water
The water helps the taco seasoning stick to the meat.
Taco Seasoning
Make your own taco seasoning or purchase it with other Mexican food at the grocery store.
Sour Cream & Cream Cheese
The “sauce” for this taco pizza is made from a mixture of sour cream and cream cheese. By combining the two, you get the delicious taste of sour cream while making it thick enough to spread by adding cream cheese.
Cheddar Cheese
We prefer extra sharp cheddar cheese when it comes to Taco Tuesday at our house. But you can use any Mexican blend cheese or other melty cheese.
Substitutions and Toppings
Taco Pizza makes a great dinner for the family. Or it can be used as an appetizer.
- Substitute shredded chicken, ground turkey, or ground pork for the ground beef
- Add refried beans, black beans, or a bean mixture to your taco pizza
- Top with black olives, green onions, red onions, romaine lettuce, bell peppers, or avocado
- Season with cayenne pepper, additional chili powder, or ground cumin
- Add a sauce such as taco sauce or enchilada sauce
Taco Pizza Step by Step
Ingredients
- 1 can pizza dough (refrigerated)
- 1 lb ground beef
- 2/3 cup water
- 3 tbsp taco seasoning (or 1 packet)
- 1 cup sour cream
- 8 oz cream cheese (softened)
- 1 cup cheddar cheese (shredded)
- taco toppings
Preparation
Bake the pizza crust according to the directions until it is golden brown. If you are using a pizza stone, make sure that preheats with the oven for the best results. Let it cool for about 20 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, brown the ground beef over medium-high heat.
Drain the ground beef and return it to the pan. Stir in the water and 2 tbsp of taco seasoning, then bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
Reduce to medium heat and cook, uncovered, for about 5 minutes, stirring often, until most of the moisture has evaporated.
In a medium mixing bowl, combine the sour cream, cream cheese, and 1 tbsp of taco seasoning. Stir until they are completely combined. It’s ok if there are a few lumps.
Once the crust has cooled, spread the cream cheese mixture over the pizza crust, covering it all the way to the edges.
Sprinkle the cooked taco meat over the sauce. It may not completely cover, which is ok. Just try to spread it out as evenly as possible.
Top the ground beef with your favorite taco toppings, such as cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, etc.
Cut into pieces about 2-inch square and serve immediately.
Taco Pizza Leftovers
Storage: Store leftover taco pizza in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 day. After that, the taco pizza sauce will start to make the crust too soggy.
Reheating: Taco pizza leftovers are good cold, but if you want to reheat them, I suggest placing them in the oven at 350 degrees F for about 10 minutes, until everything is warmed through.
Recipe
Originally Published On: December 18, 2018
Last Updated On: November 25, 2024
Taco Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 can pizza dough (refrigerated)
- 1 lb ground beef
- 2/3 cup water
- 3 tbsp taco seasoning (or 1 packet)
- 1 cup sour cream
- 8 oz cream cheese (softened)
- 1 cup cheddar cheese (shredded)
- taco toppings
Recommended Equipment
Instructions
- Bake the pizza dough as directed
- Meanwhile, in a medium skillet, brown the ground beef until cooked through
- Drain, then return to the pan
- Add the water and 2 tbsp taco seasoning and bring to a boil
- Lower the heat to medium and simmer for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently, until most of the moisture has evaporated
- In a medium mixing bowl, thoroughly combine the sour cream, cream cheese, and 1 tbsp taco seasoning
- Once the pizza crust has cooled for about 20 minutes, spread the sour cream mixture over the entire crust
- Evenly spread the ground beef on top of the sour cream sauce
- Top with your desired taco toppings, such as tomatoes, onion, peppers, etc.
- Sprinkle the cheese over the entire pizza
- Cut into pieces about 2-inch square and serve immediately
Notes
All nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutrition content will vary based on brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes, and more.
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Stop it. I like tacos AND I like pizza. This is dinnertime perfection!
I know, it’s such a wonderfully perfect combination!
I really need to Mexi-Cali food in my face soon. I haven’t had any in what feels like EONS and it’s TIME! Bring on the guac!
We have a lot of it here, but that’s what happens when you live in South Texas!
These look so good! I’d never have thought of combining tacos and pizza… will have to try it out now!
It wasn’t something we set out to do, but it was a wonderful misunderstanding of what we were doing for dinner that night!
YUM YUM YUM! Two of my favorite things in one, brilliant! I’m definitely going to give this a try, thanks!
I know, that’s what I thought, too, when we made it! It’s such a wonderful combination of two of my favorites!
Oh I am here for this! It sounds so good!
It’s such a great combination!
OMG! Combining two of my favorite foods. I’m officially in love. I need to try this asap.
I know, it was such a happy accident combination of two favorites!
My father-in-law would love this! His usual taco involves chips on a plate and then all the taco toppings on top.
Oh, this is similar, but with a pizza crust! It definitely sounds like something he may like then.
Oh my goodness, this looks SOOO delicious! I need to make a vegetarian version of this. I’m obsessed with tacos and pizza so this is my type of recipe 🙂
It would be easy to make a vegetarian version! Just use whatever you usually would on a taco and I’m sure it will be delicious!
I think my daughter would be interested in a pizza like this. We love taco fillings and pizza as well. I bet she would love it.
It’s a great way to combine the two wonderful meals together into one.
When in tarnation! Where has this been all my life?! This looks beyond delicious. I’m pretty sure I found tomorrow night’s dinner!!! 😍😍😍
I’d love to know what you all thought! We loved it here.
I totally love your recipes, Stephanie. This Taco pizza is something my family would love because they are obsessed with tacos and pizza.
Thanks, Glenda! Tacos and pizza are both some of our absolute favorite foods so it was fun to make them into one.
I’m so happy we live in a world where anything can be turned into a pizza. It’s great. Taco and Pizza is pretty much the best thing I can imagine.
Hah, me too! It’s so great to just combine everything we love together into a great meal.
It looks mouthwatering. I am craving to eat this.
Oh, you should definitely give it a try, it’s delicious!
Taco pizza sounds so good! Not to mention easy! I look forward to making this for my family! I bet my son will even eat it!
It was so easy to make, especially once we had an idea of what we wanted to do with the meal.
What’s not to love about this recipe? Tacos…pizza…yes please! I love being creative with pizza.
Tacos and pizza are two of our favorites so now we combined them into one!
I love this combination. Before I start craving for it, I better give it a try.
That’s a good idea! It’s so yummy together 🙂
OMG Genius! love this idea! I just need to make Keto pizza dough I’ve been putting off for ages!
It sounds like this is a great way to try it out then!
That’s creative, adding two meals in one and yet make it taste better, that’s talent. Now you gave me an idea of combining and seems attempting right now haha. Thank you for sharing 🙂
Sometimes, the best meals come from happy accidents like this!
This is such a great recipe! My kids loved it so much!! I can’t wait to make it again!!
Awesome, I’m so glad you guys enjoyed it!
This is a combination of two of my favorite foods! What a perfect meal for the family.
They are two of our family favorites as well!