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    🏠Home » Recipes » Low Carb/Keto Recipes

    Tortilla Pizza—Quick & Easy

    Jan 5, 2010 · Modified: Jan 24, 2023 by Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan · 10 Comments

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    4.60 from 20 votes

    Quick and easy individual tortilla pizzas are perfect for lunch or dinner. Customize them with your favorite toppings or make them low-carb or even low-caloric to fit your needs. They are so good the whole family and the kids will love them.

    tortilla pizzas on a pizza stone

    Jump To:
    • 😊Why you will love this recipe
    • 🍕Ingredients
    • 👨‍🍳How to Make Tortilla Pizza
    • ✔️Tips
    • Variation: Four Cheese White Pizza with Chicken
    • ❓FAQs
    • 🍕Pizza Recipes
    • 📖 Low-Carb Recipes
    • 🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions
    • 📝Recipe

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    😊Why you will love this recipe

    • Easy and quick to make it your way with the toppings you love.
    • Kids will love to have their pizza made their way.
    • You can prep your favorite ingredients ahead.
    • Perfect for people following low-carb or keto diets.
    • Fresh-out-of-the-oven pizzas will make everybody, even picky kids, smile.

    🍕Ingredients

    • Tortilla—flour tortillas or low-carb tortillas and flatbread
    • Italian sausage
    • Green pepper—chopped
    • Onion—chopped medium size
    • Pepperoni
    • Pizza sauce
    • Mozzarella
    • Any toppings you like on regular pizza—red onion, mushrooms, ham, bacon, Parmesan cheese

    👨‍🍳How to Make Tortilla Pizza

    1. Preheat oven with a pizza stone
    2. Brown tortillas on both sides slightly.
    3. Top with premade pizza sauce, then other ingredients, and cheese.
    4. Transfer to the pizza stone and cook for about 10 minutes.

    ✔️Tips

    • Most important for good results is to give the tortillas a light browning before starting to top them.
    • Use your favorite toppings you order on traditional pizza.
    • If you don't have a pizza stone, preheat a baking sheet or cast iron skillet.
    • This can become a quick recipe to make with a bit of planning. Brown Italian sausage and chop some green pepper ahead, and freeze.
    • To make your own sauce: One 6 oz can of tomato paste and 6 oz water. Add ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon pepper, 1 clove of garlic, about half a small chopped onion, and 1 teaspoon oregano—a pinch (¼ teaspoon) of crushed red pepper flakes for a touch of heat.

    Variation: Four Cheese White Pizza with Chicken

    A wonderful change of pace. Give it a try.

    Just a change in toppings: Eliminate Italian sausage, green pepper, pepperoni, and pizza sauce.

    New ingredient:
    1 tablespoon butter
    ½ tsp garlic powder
    ½ cup diced chicken
    1-2 oz each of feta, white cheddar, mozzarella, and shredded Parmesan
    1 Plum tomato - thin sliced  (about ¼ inch)
    Instructions:
    1) Melt 1 tablespoon butter and add ½ tsp garlic powder. Spread over the crust like sauce.
    2) Add the topping: ½ cup of diced chicken, thinly sliced plum tomato (about ¼ inch), 2 oz each of feta, white cheddar, mozzarella, and shredded Parmesan.

    ❓FAQs

    Do I need a pizza stone to cook tortilla pizzas?

    No, without the pizza stone, use a large ½ sheet baking sheet or cast iron skillet coated with PAM cooking spray. But the stone will help crisp up the crust more, and it is great to have around for heating standard pizza.

    How to make your tortilla pizza low-carb?

    Use low-carb ingredients, especially tortillas. The popularity of low-carb diets has led to multiple commercial versions of low-carb tortillas and flatbreads that are excellent products, cheap, and readily available.

    Can I make tortilla pizzas ahead and cook them when needed?

    Not a good idea. The tortilla will eventually get soggy. Prepare the ingredients ahead and assemble them while the oven is heating.

    How to keep the tortillas from becoming soggy?

    The trick is not just to slap the sauce and goodies on the tortilla. You need to brown them a little in a bit of oil, which will help keep them from becoming mush. It is that simple.

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    This recipe is listed in these categories. See them for more similar recipes.

    Italian Recipes, Low Carb/Keto Recipes, Pizza Recipes
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    🖼️Step-by-Step Photo Instructions

    bag of low carb Flatout bread

    Preheat oven to 425° convection or 450° conventional with the pizza stone on a center rack.

    browned flat bread in a fry pan

    In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add 2 teaspoons of oil. Brown flour tortillas on both sides slightly. You are just firming it up to keep it from falling apart with the sauce and ingredients.

    spreading sauce on browned flat bread

    Spoon 2 tablespoons premade pizza sauce on the crust and spread. Add other ingredients: my choices are sausage, onion, 12 pieces of pepperoni, green pepper, shredded mozzarella cheese, and topped off with 6 more slices of pepperoni.

    tortilla pizza on a pizza stone

    Transfer to the pizza stone. This will cook rapidly for about 10 minutes.

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    📝Recipe

    tortilla pizzas on a pizza stone

    Tortilla Pizza—Quick & Easy

    From Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan
    Quick and easy individual tortilla pizzas are perfect for lunch or dinner. Customize them with your favorite toppings or make them low-carb or even low-caloric to fit your needs. They are so good the whole family and the kids will love them.
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    4.60 from 20 votes
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    Prep Time: 10 minutes
    Cook Time: 10 minutes
    Total Time: 20 minutes
    Servings #/Adjust if desired 2

    Ingredients

    US Customary - Convert to Metric
    • 1 large low carb tortilla - or low carb flatbread
    • 2 teaspoons vegetable oil

    My suggested toppings - use what you like

    • ¼ pound Italian sausage - browned
    • ¼ cup green pepper - chopped
    • ¼ onion - Chopped medium size
    • 18 pieces pepperoni
    • 2 tablespoons premade pizza sauce - I like Ragu Sweet Basil
    • ½ cup mozzarella shredded
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    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 425° convection or 450° conventional with the pizza stone on a center rack.
      bag of low carb Flatout bread
    • In a large skillet over medium-high heat, add 2 teaspoons of oil. Brown flour tortillas on both sides slightly. You are just firming it up to keep it from falling apart with the sauce and ingredients.
      browned flat bread in a fry pan
    • Spoon 2 tablespoons premade pizza sauce on the crust and spread. Add other ingredients: my choices are sausage, onion, 12 pieces of pepperoni, green pepper, shredded mozzarella cheese, and topped off with 6 more slices of pepperoni.
      spreading sauce on browned flat bread
    • Transfer to the pizza stone. This will cook rapidly for about 10 minutes.
      A low-carb tortilla pizza on pizza stone
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    Recipe Notes

    Pro Tips:

    1. I generally eat a whole one of these, but most look at it as two servings. So nutrition says two serving on one of these. You can double the number if you consider the whole thing one serving.
    2. Obviously, nutrition varies completely by ingredients.
    3. The pizza stone helps a lot. Preheat a heavy cooking sheet in the oven if you don't have one. Even a cast iron skillet will work.
    4. Use the flatbread if you can find it. It is thicker and will remind you more of a thin-crust pizza.
    5. DO NOT skip the browning step.
    6. I suggest making the ingredients up ahead, but the "crust" will be soggy and fall apart if you try to store a cooked one of these.

    To adjust the recipe size:

    You may adjust the number of servings in this recipe card under servings. This does the math for the ingredients for you. BUT it does NOT adjust the text of the instructions. So you need to do that yourself.

    Nutrition Estimate

    Nutrition Facts
    Tortilla Pizza—Quick & Easy
    Amount Per Serving
    Calories 373 Calories from Fat 288
    % Daily Value*
    Fat 32g49%
    Saturated Fat 15g75%
    Cholesterol 75mg25%
    Sodium 832mg35%
    Potassium 292mg8%
    Carbohydrates 4g1%
    Fiber 1g4%
    Sugar 2g2%
    Protein 17g34%
    Vitamin A 323IU6%
    Vitamin C 18mg22%
    Calcium 152mg15%
    Iron 1mg6%
    * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
    Serving size is my estimate of a normal size unless stated otherwise. The number of servings per recipe is stated above. This is home cooking, and there are many variables. All nutritional information are estimates and may vary from your actual results. To taste ingredients such as salt will be my estimate of the average used.
    Course : Main Course
    Cuisine : Italian

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    Editor's note: This was originally published on January 5, 2010. Updated with expanded options, refreshed photos, and a table of contents to help navigation.

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    1. Carol

      October 08, 2022 at 8:06 pm

      5 stars
      My tortilla pizza turned out to be great! I fried my chopped veggies, so they wouldn't be raw on the pizza. Pan fried my tortilla like you suggested and used Rao's pizza sauce, continued to build it. Cooked it like you recommended. Wonderful, will definitely make this many times in the future. Being on keto, using low carb tortilla, low carb ssuce, to make a pizza is such a treat. Thanks a lot.

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    2. Lou7

      January 31, 2022 at 10:53 pm

      I made this pizza and loved it, made two more for my son, he called me to say how good it was, his words "tasted like it came from a pizzeria", I agree.

      I fried the tortilla, browned the mild Italian sausage, green peppers, onions & mushrooms, spread on Classico Sauce, (Sausage, green pepper & onion), then spread thin layer of mozzarella, put on the sausage, green peppers, onion, black olives, more mozzarella cheese, sprinkled on salt, garlic salt & Italian seasoning. baked 10 minutes. Tasted like a professionally made pizza.

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    3. kazy

      April 26, 2021 at 4:19 pm

      Hi Dan,
      I found your white cheese pizza intriguing and would like to try it except I noticed in both places that you mentioned it, you gave no cooking instructions like you did for the pepperoni. Are we to assume that we prepare the tortilla the same way as we would if we were doing the pepperoni pizza, by browning it first in a pan on both sides, then topping it with garlic butter, chicken and and the 4 cheeses, then placing on a pizza stone and baking for 10 minutes?

      Reply
      • Dan Mikesell AKA DrDan

        April 26, 2021 at 8:59 pm

        Hi Kazy,
        Welcome to the blog.
        Yep, cook everything the same, tortilla browning then toppings then bake on a stone.
        Dan

    4. Stacy Scoggins

      April 01, 2021 at 12:30 pm

      I really enjoyed this recipe! My toppings were leftover shredded brisket and cheese. I did quickly fry the tortilla and bake it at 425° for 10 minutes. That was so good, when I make pizza again, I'm not changing anything.

      Reply
    5. Jana

      September 29, 2020 at 9:52 pm

      5 stars
      This recipe is great! Before seeing this recipe I made a version of this, only without the first step to crisp up the flatbread, and mine was more flimsy. That step made all the difference in the world. The crust is thin and crispy and so yummy with the added toppings! A winner!

      Reply
    6. Paula Lynch

      February 13, 2016 at 5:00 pm

      We are so excited to try this (going to make the oven blackened tilapia tomorrow for first time). We don't have a pizza some, can we use a cookie sheet? If so, any adjustments needed? Also on conventional oven would we use 450 degrees like on tilapia recipe?

      Thank you so much in advance for your assistance. Feel blessed to have come upon your site today in Google search for tilapia, so many things we're going to try!

      Reply
      • DrDan

        February 13, 2016 at 5:06 pm

        Yep a cooking sheet will work. I do a lot of higher temperature cooking and have a discussion in the FAQs menu above. Basically I don't like to go above 425 much so if the recipe calls for 425 convection. Still with 425 conventional and add a bit of time.
        DrDan

      • Paula Lynch

        February 14, 2016 at 8:37 pm

        Ok great, ty so much! Will stick @ temp and just add time :) Will check out the FAQ. We enjoyed the oven blackened tilapia tonight!

      • Lou7

        January 31, 2022 at 10:58 pm

        I used a pizza Tim with holes in it, was fine!

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