Taco Pizza: A twist on pizza for a Mexican pizza made with refried beans, taco meat and cheese. This copy-cat version of Papa Murphy’s Taco Pizza is going to be LOVED by your family!
Raise your hand if you LOVE tacos?
Raise your hand if you LOVE pizza?
I have both my hands raised! I love pizza of all kinds–Buffalo Chicken Pizza, White Spinach Pizza, even Pizza Meatloaf. And I love tacos of all kinds–Black bean tacos, Slow Cooker Steak tacos, Lentil tacos, and on and on.
So why don’t put my love of pizza together with my love of tacos?
Taco Pizza
I remember the first time I had Mexican Pizza. It was during a football game that my parents were watching with my aunts and uncles and it was a simple frozen pizza.
It was love at first bite.
My parent’s, especially my dad, really fell in love with Mexican pizza and began to pick up Papa Murphy’s taco pizza from time to time for family dinners.
But when I started making Taco pizza at home–GAME CHANGER!!!
Taco pizza is extremely easy and tastes SO good!
Bonus is that I often make Taco pizza from my leftovers.
A tiny bit of leftover taco meat, some refried beans, and homemade pizza dough go a LONG way to feeding a family.
Let’s Make Homemade Taco Pizza
Start with your pizza dough–I have a recipe for homemade dough, but feel free to use any dough you like.
Once you have rolled dough out, top with refried beans, taco meat, salsa and cheese in that order.
Bake your taco pizza until golden brown and bubbly.
Then slice up and serve with your favorite toppings–and toppings are KEY to this Mexican Pizza recipe.
I like shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, cilantro a dap of sour cream–but use any toppings you like.
A Few Notes about Mexican Pizza:
- Use homemade pizza dough or store-bought dough. For this recipe you will need about 1 pound of dough.
- I used canned fat free refried beans, but you can use homemade refried beans or refried black beans, or a great idea would be to use my Chipotle Black bean dip.
- Diced avocado, diced tomatoes, fresh salsa, shredded lettuce, sliced olives, cilantro, diced onions, etc all make great toppings for Taco Pizza. I love to use a bit of Greek yogurt or sour cream to drizzle over pizza as well. Just be sure to top pizza right before serving.
Let’s Make Taco Pizza
Taco Pizza
An easy homemade version of Mexican Pizza
Ingredients
For the Pizza Dough
- 3/4 cups warm water
- 2 teaspoons yeast
- 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 tablespoon honey
- 1 3/4 cups whole white wheat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
For the Pizza
- 1/2 cup taco meat
- 1 cup refried beans
- 3/4 cup salsa
- 1 1/2 cups cheddar cheese shredded
For the Toppings
- lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cilantro, olives, sour cream
Instructions
For the Pizza Dough
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Combine the water and yeast and let sit for about 5 minutes in a large mixing bowl (or bowl of your stand mixer with dough hook attached.
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Mix in the honey and oil. Add the flour and salt slowly and mix in as you go. With dough hook or large spatula mix together dough until well combined.
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Once mixed, knead for 5 minutes by hand on a lightly floured surface or with your dough hook on low-medium speed.
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Place dough in oiled bowl and cover and leave in warm spot for 20-30 minutes.
For the Mexican Pizza
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Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.
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Roll out your pizza dough onto a lightly greased pizza pan.
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Mix together the leftover meat, salsa, and beans and spread over your pizza dough. Top with cheese. Bake for 15-18 minutes until crust is cooked through and cheese is bubbly and beginning to brown.
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Top with your favorite toppings and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
You can use your favorite store bought pizza dough in place of my homemade recipe.
For this Copycat Taco Pizza Recipe I recommend:
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I don’t have leftovers, but I still think I’m going to try this tonight! It looks SO good! Thanks for sharing!
Yea! You will love it–even if you have to make the taco meat first 🙂 Or you could just season up some canned refried beans and keep it really simple!
Yum! I love leftovers!
Especially when those leftovers can be so tasty 🙂
Brilliant! I love finding creative ways to use up leftovers too. Sometimes I even make things with the leftovers in mind! Thanks for sharing it with us at Foodie Fridays!!
I love leftover ideas! Tacos in pizza form? Genius!! Can’t wait to try it out! 😀
It is a crazy good way to eat pizza (plus use up a few leftovers!)
Thanks so much for this simple, clever recipe. We eat a lot of Mexican food around here and this is a great way to change it up a bit. Definitely pinning this one and trying it soon. Thanks, again!
I also can not STAND to waste food! My kids know to only take a little bit on their plate because you can always have more, but mama doesn’t like food to get thrown out! This recipe looks good, and what a good way to use up leftovers.
Sounds like you and I are on the same wave length. I am always looking for creative ways to reduce waste. Wait till you see what I share tomorrow on my blog about how to use kitchen scraps 🙂
This looks pretty awesome!!! The crust looks so nice and thin! That’s my favorite type.
Thanks for linking with us at #Foodie Fridays! Great to see you on there this week!
A thinner crust, just means you get to eat more slices, right?!
It’s a great feeling to turn leftovers into another great meal! Looks great! Thanks for linking up with SNF! Pinned to our party board!
Thanks so much!!
Oh yum! This looks so good. Pinned. Lou Lou Girls
Love this idea Kristen! Taco Pizza. We all love both, so this is sure to be a hit at our house!
It is a great family pleasing meal for sure 🙂
This is such a great idea to use up taco leftovers! Yum!
Makes cooking a whole lot easier when a meal can do double duty.
Wow! This is so creative. I never would have thought to do this, but I totally agree, food waste is the worst. I feel like its something I need to get better about!
Well, I hope this inspired you to cut down on your food waste at least when it comes to Mexican food 🙂
We love taco pizza! Great way to use up those leftovers that everyone forgets about!!!
I hate letting ANYTHING go to waste, and this is a fun way to use up leftovers!
Looks like a great fusion of Mexican and Italian food 🙂 Love the idea of turning leftovers into something yummy!
Using leftovers to create something new (and yummy) is something I LOVE to do!
I love switching up leftovers too (hate eating the same thing two nights in a row!). Pizza crust is always such a great vessel for leftovers. Yours looks amazing!
Pizza can take on so many flavors–it is truly so versatile.
I am trying to use my leftovers more often also!
Such a great way to save money!
What a fabulous way to repurpose leftovers. Love that you made something totally different.
Thanks Christie!
We use left overs all the time Less food wasted and more money stays in my pockets! I have not tried this recipe yet, but I will be now!
This is a great dish to add to your money saving repertoire.
I made a vegetarian taco pizza one time and it was SO good! I thought it was going to be a weird combo (with the crust and taco flavors) but it was just a giant slice of taco and it was ah-mazing!
The first time I had it, I thought it would be odd as well. But yep, so great!
Why I never thought of this before? This is brilliant!
Thanks Hirra! It is so easy and so yummy!
I love leftovers too! Make mini appetizers or something creative. Love this!
Leftovers can be so creative, if you use your imagination!