Taco Pizza

Cuisine: Fusion

Cook Time: 30 Minutes + 4 Hours of Dough Rise

Serves: 2

Taco pizza is a small variant of pizza but instead of using other pizza ingredients, it uses Mexican dressings. It is super yummy and can be deemed as a perfect alternative to commonly available pizza.

2 ready-made pizza base
1 cup minced meat
Half cup black beans
3 tablespoon salsa ng
dressing
1 cup cheddar cheese
½ cup finely cut tomatoes
1/2 cup olive and jalapeno mix
1 cup thinly cut lettuce
1 cup sour cream
2 tsp lime juice
1 teaspoon Mexican seasoning
Salt and pepper as per taste

When Italy meets Mexico, a blast of deliciousness happens. This quick and easy recipe is all you need to have the best of both worlds. How to make Taco pizza? Let's read further without keeping you hungry.

Preheat the oven to 375 F and on a separate plate, roll a pizza base. Grease it with some olive oil and start layering it with the first layers of minced meat, then cheese, black beans, and salsa dressing along with olives and jalapenos. Now put everything in an oven and bake it for 20 minutes.
In another bowl, put together a mixture of sour cream, 1 tsp of Mexican seasoning, lime juice and toss lettuce and finely chopped tomatoes into it.
Take out the pizza after 20 minutes and spread this lettuce and cream mixture over it properly.
Finally, cut it into pieces using a pizza cutter and garnish it with freshly cut cilantro leaves.

Chef Tip: You can go further to add crushed Doritos over it to give it a crunchier texture like a taco.

This is a different take on traditional pizza, which combines the best of both Italian and Mexican specialties. It is quick to prepare in under 30 minutes and can be enjoyed as a healthy alternative to cheezy pizza.

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Fun Fact

• Pizza made with cheddar and pepper jack cheese, salsa, refried beans, or other common taco ingredients is often marketed as "Taco Pizza".

• This particular dish is a fusion of Italian and Mexican cuisines.

Historical Fact

• During the mission era, Spanish and Mexican cuisines were combined in Texas as in other parts of the northern frontier of New Spain. However, the cuisine that would come to be called Tex-Mex originated with Tejanos (Texans of Mexican descent) as a mix of native Mexican and Spanish foods when Texas was part of New Spain and later Mexico.

• Happy Joe's is credited as the inventor of the "Taco pizza."

Nutrition Fact

• Served on a whole-wheat crust, this pizza is topped with taco ingredients, including tortilla chips!

• Typical restaurant or fast food tacos can be loaded with fat and calories without being very filling, which can lead you to consume too many calories. However, tacos can be healthy if you change up the recipe.