Bacon Jalapeño Cheeseburger Pizza

I found a few inspirations for using ground beef on pizza using my Pizza! from scratch dough. Yummly makes a Bacon Cheeseburger pizza that I followed pretty closely.

I pre-baked the pizza crust this first time, 4 minutes at 500° F, so any liquid from the hamburger/pizza sauce mix wouldn’t make it mushy and also so the crust could bake through. The Breakfast Pizza crust was almost not quite done even though the toppings were. 4 minutes did not make it browned or anything. However, after all was said and done, I don’t think I’ll pre-bake this pizza again.

After pre-baking, I lowered the temp to 450° F because Yummly’s recipe said 400° (for 10-20 minutes)- since my pizza dough recipe was 500° or 550° F, this seemed a compromise. But 17 minutes in (after 4 minutes of prebake) and that pizza ain’t done. 22 minutes at 450°F, the crust was browned but also very dry and crispy as well as sort of tough, unlike the other pizzas I’ve made with pizza dough from scratch.

I used pizza sauce-from-scratch recipe using a conglomeration of recipes online (new post?). Then I topped the pizza off with bacon, onion rings (not fried, just rings of onions), cheese and jalapeños.

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Bacon Jalapeño Cheeseburger Pizza

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Ingredients

• a bit of olive oil
• 3-4 slices of bacon (I used 4 - 3 was probably enough)
• 1/2 lb ground beef (I used about .6 lb and it made more than I used on my smaller pizza)
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 1 c pizza sauce
• Tony Chachere's
• black pepper
• roasted garlic powder
• shredded mozzarella and cheddar or whatever cheese you want - enough to cover the pizza, I didn't measure
• Parmesan cheese
• a few onion rings (not fried, just sliced onions)
• pickled jalapeños - might even be better if they're fresh, but pickled is what I had

Instructions

1

premake the pizza dough - if refrigerated, allow to come to room temperature, 2-3 hours

2

premake pizza sauce - this takes 30 minutes for draining the canned tomatoes then maybe 5 minutes to put it together and blend

3

preheat the oven to 500°F with pizza stone inside - TURN ON THE STOVETOP FAN to avoid setting off smoke alarms!

4

cook onion in the olive oil until transparent

5

add ground beef, cook until browned, then drain and return to skillet

6

add 1 cup pizza sauce and seasonings - original recipe says to add Parmesan cheese now and cook until thick, but I chose not to cook it

7

once oven is preheated, take out pizza stone and prepare crust on it

8

prebake the crust? Maybe not - I did for 4 minutes, but honestly now it's too dry

9

after prebaking, I lowered the temp to 450° F and I think that was a mistake

10

put the ground beef/sauce mix on the crust

11

top with cheeses, onion slices, jalapeños

12

I baked it about 22 minutes before the crust looked browned, but then it was dry and crispy and a bit tough, so I would go back to 500° F for the pizza, no pre-bake, and about 12-15 minutes bake

Notes

I need to do this again, and change the baking temp/time