This Easy Taco Pizza recipe is the perfect weeknight meal or game day food! Serve it up assembled or let your guests choose their toppings. It’s always a hit.
My top tip is to make sure to use toppings your family enjoys. Serve bowls of sour cream, guacamole, etc on the side for a delicious taco pizza bar.
This taco pizza recipe was originally published in April 2011. The photos were updated in October 2019, and I updated the recipe notes in April 2025.
Aimee’s Recipe Notes
- Taste- this pizza has the texture of pizza with all the savory taco flavors!
- Time-Saving Tip- prepare taco meat in advance and refrigerate until read to use.
- Serving Suggestions- set up a toppings bar with options like sour cream, guacamole, and salsa!
- Storage- store leftover pizza slices in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.
- Top Tip- be sure to drain the taco meat before spreading it over the pizza crust to prevent a soggy crust.
How to Make Taco Pizza
Prep & Cook – Preheat oven to 400°F. Cook taco meat with taco seasoning and drain well.
Assemble – Spread pizza dough on a greased baking sheet. Layer with seasoned taco meat, green chilies, and shredded cheese.
Bake – Bake for 10-15 minutes until cheese is melted and crust is golden.
Add Toppings – Remove from oven and add lettuce, tomatoes, olives, and any other desired toppings.
Serve – Slice and serve with sour cream, salsa, or guacamole on the side.
Taco Pizza Toppings
This is where you can either add all the toppings to the pizza at once…or make a buffet and let your family and friends top their pizza themselves.
Typically we add lettuce, tomato, and extra cheese. Here’s a few other favorite toppings for taco pizza.
- Salsa verde
- Sour cream or plain greek yogurt
- Guacamole
- Pico de gallo
- Black Olives
- Crushed Taco Doritos or Fritos
- Refried Beans
More Pizza Dishes
- Friday nights are pizza night in our house. Sometimes we switch things up and make this easy Hawaiian pizza, and sometimes we make pizza dip!
- For a delicious and easy dinner, my Pizza Casserole is loaded with cheesy pasta, veggies, and meat!
- I love this easy Taco Tortilla Stacks for game day snacking, but they also make a delicious easy dinner.
- Serving up this Layered Taco Dip Recipe for weekend gatherings, but it’s also hearty enough for a meal.
- Dust off the slow cooker and make my easy Slow Cooker Pizza Soup for a low prep dinner.
- Love today’s dinner? Be sure to try my easy Dorito Salad recipe next!
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Taco Pizza Recipe
Ingredients
- Prepared pizza crust enough for 15×10 baking sheet
- corn meal for sprinkling on cookie sheet
- 2 lb ground beef
- 2 pkg taco seasoning mix
- ½ cup water
- 1 can 4oz chopped green chilies
- 3 cup shredded colby jack cheese divided
- lettuce
- tomato
Instructions
- Prepare pizza dough according to package (enough for a 10×15 baking sheet).
- Press dough into a large cookie sheet, 15×10-inch (sprinkled with corn meal), with sides, with extra dough on the edges.
- When pizza pan is prepped with dough, poke fork in dough all over.
- Bake in a 425 degree oven for 10 minutes. (dough will not be completely cooked yet).
- While dough is baking, brown beef completely then drain. Add taco seasoning and water and let simmer 5-10 minutes. Drain again.Top dough with drained ground beef, chopped green chilies and 2 cups of the shredded cheese.
- Bake an additional 10-15 minutes (until crust is golden brown). Remove from oven, cut into squares before adding toppings.
- Then top with lettuce, tomato, and remaining cheese. Serve with any additional toppings your family may want. Enjoy!
Notes
- SERVE AND STORE: Taco pizza is best eaten the same day. However, if you have leftovers, they can be safely stored in the refrigerator for 3 days. For best results, reheat in a toaster oven, or regular oven until warm.
- Be sure to drain taco meat before adding to pizza to help prevent a soggy crust.
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This Easy Taco Pizza is the perfect weeknight meal or game day food! Serve it up assembled or let your guests choose their toppings. It’s always a hit.
could you add refried beans on before the taco meat and then the rest of the stuff
Yep!
The perfect recipe to satisfy all cravings! Yum!
I don’t even know how I finished up here, but I thought this post was great.
My favorite kind of pizza is Taco pizza… I have to try this. 🙂
I have been on the look out for a taco pizza. So glad I found you over at the Ultimate Recipe Swap.
Tacos are my brother’s favorite food and I love them too. I’ll have to make this sometime when he’s visiting because I’m sure he’d love it. Thanks for the idea!
Taco pizza is one of my favorite foods in the whole wide world! My husband on the other hand just doesn’t “get it” and won’t touch it.He thinks lettuce on pizza id just weird. I just think it’s yummy!
We love tacos at our house and I have never thought to put it on a pizza, but that is a fantastic idea. Can’t wait to try it! I am a new follower and would love a follow back at The Farm Girl Recipes. Thanks!!
Now that is my kind of pizza. Looks wonderful.
This looks great. I can’t wait to try it:)
Two of my FAVORITES IN ONE DISH.
I would love to have this right now instead of my Lean Pocket.
Thanks Ty! I will look into that search gadget….
Oh, one more thing…
Since we use Blogger, too, I know they have a search gadget you can add. You should put one on. If someone wants to look up a recipe, they can just search for it.
(I thought of this wehn I took mental note to look up this taco pizza recipe when I’m skinny.)
Wow, Aimee, that looks perfect. Taco pizza is amazing when done right, and Ed & Joes and Mom are the only two I’ve encountered done right. Looks like a third contender now.
-Ty
PS. Really like the new look.
I definitely want a piece of that!
ha, i JUST ranted to my roommate about the pizza here. we are both from chicago and are amazed at the east coast. what’s wrong with DC? they should have decent pizza… ha, ANYWAY! thanks so much for sharing, looks lovely! as per usual 😉
-meg
@ http://clutzycooking.blogspot.com
Taco Pizza – yummmmmy! I love this kind of meal. It definitely brings back memories of my childhood too. My Mom did a lot with Bisquick…LOL.
I got this one bookmarked!
Oh, also you asked me about the Buttermilk substitute. Once you open, the container, it has to be refrigerated. The “use by” date on my container is 2014 but I’m not sure if that is the use-by date once it is opened or the “use-by” date while it is still sealed. The container doesn’t say. But my guess is it has a pretty decent shelf life as long as it stays refrigerated. Okay, so I guess that wasn’t the most thorough answer in the world..sorry. 🙂