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Cast Iron Tortilla Pizza – 4 Ways

David Smith
2022-05-11
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If you love the crispy, super thin, bar-style pizzas that are popular in many restaurants these days, you are going to LOVE this Tortilla Pizza recipe!

You’ll make these pizzas in a cast-iron skillet on the stovetop and finish them with barely a minute under the broiler. This quick and easy pizza recipe delivers incredible results every time.

Tortilla pizzas have a crispy husks topped with all the gooey mozzarella and toppings you could possibly want.

This has wilt a trademark new favorite go-to lunch, dinner, and snack in our house. I love that you can make these pizzas in just a few minutes!

Tortilla Pizzas

Extra Crispy Tortilla Pizza – just like your favorite restaurant serves! When I saw this recipe in my friend Kelley’s cookbook, Apres All Day, I immediately bookmarked it to try.

I made it that week. And, the next week. It probably doesn’t surprise anyone to find that I’ve made it myriad times since then.

See, I have always loved pizza. Every time I go when to Albuquerque, there’s only one restaurant that I simply must visit–my favorite pizza place.

There is something so wonderfully simple well-nigh pizza. It appeals to people of all ages. We might prefer it in variegated ways, but everyone likes it.

Thick crust, thin crust, pan pizzas, homemade pizzas, frozen pizzas, unseemly wordage pizzas, wood-fired gourmet pizzas, there is quite literally no way that I do not enjoy eating pizza!

Tortilla pizzas pretty much blew my mind when I tried them and I LOVE this quick and easy method for doing our family pizza nights now.

How To Make Tortilla Pizza

Here’s the stuff to alimony in mind while pursuit the steps on how to make a tortilla pizza:

First, read the full recipe surpassing you get started. Using the roaster makes it very fast, but you can hands shrivel the pizza if you get distracted.

Second, you’re going to want increasingly than one. Seriously, this meal is dangerously delicious. Buy unbearable ingredients to make extras.

Tortilla Pizza Recipe

Set the oven to broil. Heat a large cast-iron skillet or griddle over medium upper heat. Add the olive oil. Once the oil is shimmering, spread the oil virtually the skillet with a paper towel to swizzle any glut oil.
Place the tortilla in the part-way of the skillet. Top the tortilla with the marinara sauce and spread the sauce to the edges of the tortilla. Sprinkle evenly with the mozzarella cheese.
Cook for well-nigh 2 minutes, just until the underside of the tortilla is brown and crispy. Take care, considering it can shrivel quickly!
Place the skillet under the broiler. Cook for 60-90 seconds, just until the cheese is melted and bubbly and the tortilla starts to brown at the edges.
Remove from the oven and transfer the pizza to a wearing board. Let rest for 2-3 minutes surpassing wearing into eighths. Serve immediately.

It only takes a few minutes to make Tortilla Pizza in a tint iron skillet!

For increasingly fun pizza flavors, try the Cheesy Pizza Pasta Bake and Pizza Soup too.

And for the cheese lovers in your life, trammels out perfectly crispy Grilled Cheese Sandwiches, Cheesy Bacon Tater Tots, Cheesy Bacon Quiche, and the Everything Quesadillas.

Cast Iron Tortilla Pizza

If you love the crispy, super thin, bar-style pizzas that are popular in many restaurants these days, you are going to LOVE these Tortilla Pizzas!

Course Appetizer, Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Tortilla Pizza

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes

Total Time 10 minutes

Servings serving

Calories 561kcal

Ingredients

Classic Cheese Pizza

1 teaspoon olive oil
1 12-inch flour tortilla
¼ cup marinara sauce or pizza sauce
½ cup shredded whole milk mozzarella

Margherita Pizza

½ Roma tomato, thinly sliced
2 fresh basil leaves, torn small or sliced thinly
pinch of woody salt

Ham & Pineapple Pizza

2 slices deli ham, cut or torn into bite-size pieces
2 tablespoons thinly sliced canned or fresh pineapple chunks
reduced balsamic vinegar, for drizzling

Pepperoni Pizza

8 pepperoni slices

Instructions

Classic Cheese Pizza Directions

Set the oven to broil. Heat a large cast-iron skillet or griddle over medium upper heat. Add the olive oil. Once the oil is shimmering, spread the oil virtually the skillet with a paper towel to swizzle any glut oil.
Place the tortilla in the part-way of the skillet. Top the tortilla with the marinara sauce, spread the sauce to the edges of the tortilla. Sprinkle evenly with the mozzarella cheese.
Cook for well-nigh 2 minutes, just until the underside of the tortilla is brown and crispy. Take care, considering it can shrivel quickly!
Place the skillet under the broiler. Cook for 60-90 seconds, just until the cheese is melted and bubbly and the tortilla starts to brown at the edges.
Remove from the oven and transfer the pizza to a wearing board. Let rest for 2-3 minutes surpassing wearing into eighths. Serve immediately.

Margarita Pizza Directions

Assemble the pizza as directed for the archetype cheese pizza. Top the cheese with the sliced tomato and basil. Cook as directed. When you remove the pizza from the oven, sprinkle with salt surpassing serving.

Ham & Pineapple Pizza Directions

Assemble the pizza as directed for the archetype cheese pizza. Top the cheese with the ham and pineapple. Cook as directed. Finish with a drizzle of reduced balsamic vinegar.