These Mexican Pizzas are easy to make and a recipe the whole family will love! These are such a great way to switch up all of those Taco Tuesday dinners!
These are inspired by the Taco Bell Mexican Pizzas and are made with fried flour tortillas, refried beans, ground beef, cheese, Taco sauce, diced tomatoes, and chopped green onions!
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Ingredients
1 lb of ground beef
1 chopped onion
1/2 tsp salt and pepper
2 tsp chili powder
1 tsp each cumin and dried cilantro
1/4 tsp cayenne
1 TBSP minced garlic
Small Fajita size flour tortillas
1 can refried beans
Taco Sauce
2 cups of shredded Colby Jack cheese
Diced tomatoes
Chopped green onions
Vegetable oil
Prep Mexican Pizzas
To start making this recipe, start with frying the tortillas and browning the ground beef.
Brown one pound of ground beef in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add a chopped onion. Once beef is fully cooked drain any extra grease.
Season with salt, pepper, chili powder, cumin, dried cilantro, and cayenne. I like using this blend of seasonings for Taco seasoning, but you could use a Taco seasoning packet instead of these seasonings if you prefer that.
While the beef is cooking lightly fry flour tortillas in a separate skillet. Add just enough vegetable oil to cover the bottom of the skillet. Fry the tortillas over medium-heat on both sides until golden brown.
The tortillas only cook for 1-2 minutes on each side. Once tortillas are fried place them on paper towels to absorb any extra grease.
Build Mexican Pizzas
Once all of the tortillas are fried and the ground beef is browned, heat up the refried beans to make them easier to work with. Spread refried beans on top of the flour tortillas.
Next, add a scoop of ground beef. Add a little bit of shredded cheese and add another fried tortilla on top.
Spoon some taco sauce on top of the tortilla and top with more shredded cheese.
Bake at 400 degrees F for about 10 minutes.
Serve Easy Mexican Pizzas
Once the cheese is melted, it’s time to eat! Top the pizzas with diced tomatoes and chopped green onions and slice into 4 pieces.
You could really add any other of your favorite Taco toppings to these, but we like to keep them simple.
These pizzas are so good on their own, but if you need a side my easy Spanish rice recipe goes great with these!
My favorite Taco sauce is the Ortega Medium Taco sauce, but you can use your favorite brand.
I like to shred my own Colby Jack cheese from a block for a better consistency. Shredded Cheddar cheese or a Mexican Blend cheese would also be good on these pizzas.
You can use the seasonings I have listed for the ground beef, or use a Taco seasoning packet instead if you prefer.
This recipe makes enough to make at least 8 Mexican Pizzas.
Brown the ground beef in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add a chopped onion. Once beef is fully cooked drain any extra grease.
Season with salt, pepper, chili powder, cumin, dried cilantro, and cayenne. Add minced garlic and stir.
While the beef is cooking lightly fry flour tortillas in a separate skillet over medium-heat. Add just enough vegetable oil to cover the bottom of the skillet. Fry tortillas on both sides until golden brown (this usually only takes 1-2 minutes on each side). Once tortillas are fried place them on paper towels to absorb any extra grease.
Heat up refried beans to make them easier to work with. Spread refried beans on top of flour tortillas. Add a scoop of ground beef. Add a little bit of shredded cheese and add another fried tortilla. Spoon some taco sauce on top of the tortilla and top with more shredded cheese.
Bake at 400 degrees F for about 10 minutes. Top with diced tomatoes and chopped green onions. Enjoy!
Notes
This recipe makes enough to make 8 Mexican Pizzas.
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The Mexican Pizza returned to the menu in all its previous glory, complete with the same ingredients including seasoned beef and refried beans between two fried flour tortillas, topped with pizza sauce, three-cheese blend and fresh diced tomatoes.
According to USA Today, Taco Bell first removed the item in 2020 as the company began "streamlining our menu" to "provide a more efficient restaurant experience." But after fan outcry, the restaurant added the item back to the menu in May 2022.
We use the apostrophe around pizza sauce because it's not really traditional tomato marinara sauce that Taco Bell uses. Instead, it's enchilada sauce – specifically the red kind. You can find enchilada sauce in the international aisle of most supermarkets.
The Mexican Pizza, originally called the Pizzazz Pizza, is a menu item at the U.S.-based chain Taco Bell. It consists of two tortillas with a filling of seasoned beef and refried beans, topped with tomato sauce, three cheeses, and diced tomatoes.
Where do your ingredients come from? We buy many of our ingredients for our restaurants from the same brands that you see in the grocery store and your kitchen: for example, lettuce from Taylor Farms, tortillas from Mission, Hass avocados and poultry from Tyson.
This dish, however, may not be the best option for those who are keen on maintaining a healthy, low-calorie diet. According to Taco Bell's published nutritional information (required by the FDA), a typical serving of the Taco Bell Mexican pizza weighs about 213g and contains 530 calories.
An E.coli outbreak among patrons of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania-area Taco Bell restaurants has been traced to E. coli-contminated green onions. Taco Bell has pulled all green onions from restaurants nationwide and closed suburban Philadelphia Taco Bell stores after four E.
After conducting consumer research in February 1985, Taco Bell found the term "Mexican Pizza" may have been turning some customers off because of its potential “spiciness.” So, Taco Bell decided to change the name from "Mexican Pizza" to "Pizzazz Pizza" (not confusing at all, right?).
The commercial here even shows the menu staple with green onions and black olives. Both of those ingedients are no longer part of the recipe. Early '90s — A Taco Bell representative tells Thrillist that this is when Taco Bell removed the olives from Mexican Pizza. The exact year was not provided.
The Cheese Jalapeño Mexican Pizza, which adds nacho cheese sauce and jalapeños to the traditional Mexican Pizza, will be available in Oklahoma City costing between $4.99 and $5.49. While the Triple Crunch Mexican Pizza, which has an additional bean and meat layer, will be available in Ohama for $5.99.
Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza made a much anticipated return to the menu in September 2022. The Veggie Mexican Pizza already omits beef, but order it without cheese to make it vegan. This will leave you with a crunchy “pizza” shell, refried beans, tomatoes, and Mexican pizza sauce.
If you want to make your own homemade version of a Taco Bell Mexican Pizza, it should be fairly easy to do so. The shell is essentially a flour tortilla that has been fried in oil, much like how a tostada shell is made from a fried corn tortilla. Be aware that a flour tortilla will tend to puff up a bit while frying.
Tlayuda is like a giant tortilla, with refried beans, quesillo(queso Oaxaca), chorizo, tasajo, pork cecina or nopales. And really good and hot salsa. A pizza. “Una pizza,” in Spanish; the pronunciation is about the same as it is in English.
Taco Bell's Mexican Pizza is two flour tortillas that are deep-fried, then layered and topped with refried beans, salsa, and cheese. The pizza is then heated up and topped with tomatoes, scallions, and jalapenos. At Taco Bell, you can get a beef version or a vegetarian version of the pizza.
In Mexico, tacos are usually served with warm and freshly made flour or corn tortillas. Whether you use corn or flour tortillas will depend on the region.
Even if they buy the tortillas, rather than make them, they are still made from flavorful corn masa. The tortillas chips you buy in the store are not made from tortillas. They are made from a corn meal concoction full of salt and seasonings that is fried.
Corn tortillas are found all over Mexico and Central America while flour tortillas are generally only found in the northern part of Mexico and the USA, where they are a popular part of Tex-Mex cuisine. Corn tortillas are yellow in color and tend to be smaller than flour tortillas, which are much whiter in color.
Some online critics suggest the Mexican Pizza's shell is different from when it was taken off the menu in 2020. Mike Pomranz has been covering craft beer for nearly two decades and trending food and beverage news for Food & Wine for 7 years.
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