Easy Taco Pizza is a quick and easy appetizer perfect for game day or parties. Topped with your favorite taco fillings, ready in 30 minutes!
Easy Taco Pizza is the perfect Appetizer that can also double as your meal on a busy weeknight! For more tasty recipes like this, try Seven Layer Bean Dip and Creamy Layer Taco Dip.
Why You’ll Love This Pizza?
- Perfect appetizer for game day and parties.
- Pick your favorite taco toppings and customize the flavors just how you like.
Sabrina’s Taco Pizza Recipe
This recipe is a fun and easy game day snack or appetizer. It combines the ease of eating a slice of pizza, with all the delicious flavors of a taco but without the hassle of half the ingredients falling out onto your plate. Simply cut the pieces into squares and serve in individual slices that are an easy to grab finger food.
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Ingredients
- 1/2 pound ground beef , (85/15)
- 1 tablespoon taco seasoning
- 1/4 cup water
- 1 can crescent roll dough
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1 cup lettuce , thinly sliced
- 1 cup cheddar cheese , finely diced
- 1 vine tomato , chopped
- 4 ounces black olives , sliced (equals just over a half cup)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
- Cook the beef in a medium skillet until well browned and drain the fat.
- Mix your taco seasoning in the water, add it to the drained beef and cook until the water has evaporated, stirring well.
- Grease a 10×14-inch or larger sheet pan and unroll the crescent dough into a large rectangle, pressing together any open seams and bake for 12 minutes, remove from the oven and let it cool for 5 minutes.
- Layer the pizza with sour cream, taco meat, lettuce, tomato, cheese, and olives.
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Note from Sabrina
You can even use the ingredients to make a quick bean dip, just substitute and cook the dough into sticks that you’ve brushed with a bit of olive oil and sprinkled with garlic powder or taco seasoning and bake it into slices then use to dip.
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About this Recipe
Easy Taco Pizza is a simple appetizer recipe that you can add your favorite taco filling ingredients to. It is as quick as rolling out a can of crescent dough, but you can absolutely use my recipe for Homemade Pizza Dough in its place and make a truly Homemade Taco Pizza. Bake the pizza crust for the same amount of time as directed, then add your favorite taco toppings!
Can this be made ahead of time?
I love making this pizza ahead of time, and I usually choose whichever method fits my schedule. If I just need a little head start, I’ll fully assemble the pizza and keep it covered in the fridge for a few hours until I’m ready to bake. When I want something even more convenient, I assemble the whole pizza and freeze it unbaked. Wrap it tightly so it can bake straight from the freezer whenever a craving hits. For the easiest grab-and-go option, I bake the pizza completely, slice it, and freeze the pieces so I can reheat them later in the oven or air fryer for a quick, crispy meal.
Cooking Tips & Tricks
- Do not stretch the crescent dough, if it gets too thin it will be like a cracker instead of chewy pizza dough.
- Make the first layer something less watery if possible, like refried beans, cream cheese, or sour cream instead of salsa.
- If the crescent roll dough has triangles that are torn apart take the time to press and pinch the seams back together.
Pairing Suggestions
For the perfect game day snack bar, pair this pizza with more easy to eat appetizers like Bacon Jalapeno Poppers, Nachos and Queso Dip. Enjoy the snacks before serving Classic Buffalo Wings with a side of Loaded Garlic French Fries. With food like this, everyone will be wanting to spend every Sunday at your house watching the game!
How to Store
- Serve: Because of the cheese, you don’t want to leave your pizza out at room temperature for more than 2 hours.
- Store: To store leftovers, put them in a ziplock bag or wrap the slices in tin foil or plastic wrap. The recipe can stay good in the fridge for up to 4 days.
- Freeze: I do not recommend freezing this pizza because of the toppings. You can make the pizza dough ahead of time, and keep it in the freezer for whenever you are ready to make and serve.
Ideas to Serve
- Taco Roll Ups: Spread refried beans, taco meat and cheddar cheese over the crescent dough, then roll. Using kitchen twine, cut into rolls into 3- or 4-inch pieces, then place side up and bake for 18-20 minutes.
- Taco Crescents: Use crescent rolls with half a piece of string cheese (cheddar variety if you can find them), ground beef and other toppings, then roll into the standard crescent shape and bake according to the directions on the crescent dough can.
- Deep-Dish Taco Pizza: Put the pizza dough into a cake pan and bake it then layer the ingredients in and slice it.
- Taco Calzones: Cut the dough into squares, fill half with your taco fillings of choice (avoid lettuce), fold the other half over and pinch the edges together. Cut a slit in the top for the steam to escape and bake according to package directions.
Topping Ideas
- Beans: Try topping the pizza with refried beans, black beans, or pinto beans for some added texture and flavor.
- Sauces: Use your favorite hot sauce, salsa, queso, or Guacamole.
- Fresh Veggies: You can add any fresh veggies you like on top of the pizza like peppers, onions, green onions, or jalapeños. They’ll also bring crunch and flavor to the table!
- Crunch: More ideas to bring the crunch, you could crumble tortilla chips or your favorite flavor of Doritos on the pizza.
Variations
- Chicken Fajita: Use ground chicken, fajita vegetables, sour cream, cheese, and cilantro as the toppings to create a fajita-inspired pizza.
- Nachos: Top the dough with refried beans, ground beef, nacho cheese, and hot sauce for a fun nacho-style pizza.
- Carnitas: The pizza dough makes a great base for pork carnitas. Top the pork with onions and salsa for simplicity, or add on all your favorite toppings.
- Cheese options: You can top the pizza off with different kinds of cheese. Either use the cheese alternatives or add a variety of cheese along with the cheese already in the recipe. Sharp cheddar cheese, Monterey jack cheese, or Pepper Jack would taste great.
- Whole wheat pizza dough: If you want to make a slightly healthier pizza dough recipe, you can substitute the regular white flour with whole wheat flour.
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Author does not tell you the oven temperature. I baked it according to container directions, even precooked dough for less time than instructed on package. Crust was slightly burned so next time I will have to reduce oven temp and baking time.
Thank you for pointing out our oversight Don. The recipe card has been updated to Bake at 375 degrees. Appreciate you taking the time and thank you for the kind review.
The taco pizza looked very tasty. I plan on making the taco pizza very soon and have some friends over and share the taco pizza.
Enjoy!
YUMMY
A delicious way to change up Taco Tuesday!
So perfect for that!
This looks the perfect food for our upcoming family gathering! 🙂
Love the idea of making a pizza using crescent roll dough! Your taco pizza looks fantastic!
Thanks so much!
Mmmm I love tacos but this version sounds and looks like a little taste of heaven! Pinning for later!
Thanks for the pin, Rosa!
What an easy dinner for my kids to help out with making. I’m doing this for our next Taco Tuesday night, thanks.
Sounds perfect! Getting the kids involved in the process is such a great idea.
This looks delish! I like how you used the cresent rolls for dough. It gives it a legit pizza look. My husband makes a similar dish but he uses baked tortillas and you don’t get that crust feel. Can’t wait to try it.
Hope you enjoy it!
What a fun & delicious appetizer or entree. Do I use the temp indicated on the crescent dough can for this recipe?
Bake at 375 degrees 🙂
Easy and inviting, as usual 🙂