Taco Pizza
Crust:
High gluten flour, water, yeast, vegetable oil (a small amount) a small amount of sugar to help activate the yeast; mix and add flour until you can create a ball that is dry enough to not stick to your hands.
Let the dough rise then separate into the size of pizza you want normal rule is one inch round per one ounce of dough (example 10 ounces will equal a 10” pizza), let it rise again.
Flatten out on a greased pan, we used vegetable shortening, do not stretch the dough instead sort of mash it down and out, if you stretch it it will shrink in the oven, then let it rise again. Don’t get in a hurry with the rising process. If it does not have enough time to rise it will shrink in the oven.
Once the dough has risen to about 1/4” to ½” bake it then let it cool off of the pan upside down so that the moisture can be released. Before use cool baked crust in the refrigerator before use so that the crust doesn’t over cook before the toppings are done.
Sauce:
Water, tomato paste, basil, oregano, garlic, sugar, all of the spices to your taste which of course is regulated to how much of each spice that use and according to the amount that you are making; I can’t give you actual measurements because we made huge amounts. Tomato sauce can replace the water and paste if you like.
Toppings:
Pizza sauce, taco meat (cook hamburger to well done, then add water, saluted onion from another pan (to taste) and taco seasoning to taste commercial packets are OK although you want more on the strong side rather than on the weak side of flavor because the sauce will dilute it somewhat, then cook until most of the water has evaporated away. Let cool.
Place cool crust on a pan with the bottom down the same way that you took it off of its baking sheet no shortening required, spread sauce on top of crust to taste, spread taco meat on sauce thickness to taste, cover taco meat with mozzarella cheese again to taste.
Place in oven set at around 375 degrees this will vary per oven. Don’t add the pizza until the oven is up to the temperature that you have chosen.
When cheese is melted and darkened to your liking remove from oven. If you notice that the crust bottom is getting too dark for your liking place a cool pan under the pan holding your pizza this will allow the first pan to cool; at this point you may want to reduce the heat somewhat. Do this before the crust is too dark for your taste.
Tortilla chips crumbled on top of the cheese to add crunch and to keep the lettuce from wilting too quickly from the heat of the melted cheese.
Then add cold toppings: lettuce, tomato and black olives on top of melted cheese then sprinkle cool mozzarella cheese over the cold toppings to taste.
You can experiment with toppings by adding what you like and removing what you don’t like.
Normal dips are ranch dressing and taco sauce. By replacing your pizza sauce with refried beans you create a burrito pizza.