Mission Mexican Pizza
“This South-of-the-border twist on pizza is a great way to change up your dinner menu.”
Ingredients For Mission Mexican Pizza
- 8 (6 inch) Mission® Fajita Flour Tortillas, cooked into crispy tortillas
- 1 cup refried beans, prepared
- 1 pound ground beef, chuck, raw
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste
- 4 tablespoons pizza sauce, prepared
- 1 cup Mexican Cheese Blend, grated, prepared
- 1/2 cup Roma tomato, fresh, small chop
- 4 teaspoons cilantro, fresh, rough chopped
How To Prepare Mission Mexican Pizza
It takes 12 minutes to prepare, 8 minutes to cook & gets ready in 20 minutes. It offers 4 servings.
Steps:
- To make the Mission(R) Crispy Tortillas: Place all 8 tortillas directly on the oven rack of a 350 degrees F oven and bake for 8 minutes. Remove from the oven and reserve on your work surface.
- Heat the 1 cup of refried beans for 1 minute in the microwave to get hot and reserve for the recipe build.
- Season the ground beef with salt and pepper and saute for 8 minutes in a non-stick pan, drain and reserve hot for the recipe build.
- To build 1 Mexican Pizza: Place 1 crisp Mission(R) tortilla on work surface.
- Evenly spread tortilla with 1/4 cup hot refried beans.
- Evenly top refried beans with 1/4 (approximately 4 ounces) of the cooked ground beef.
- Top ground beef with second crisp tortilla and evenly spread 1 heaping tablespoon of pizza sauce over the tortilla.
- Evenly top the pizza sauce with 1/4 cup grated Mexican cheese blend and 2 tablespoons chopped tomatoes.
- Repeat steps 1 through 5 for remaining 3 servings.
- Place all 4 pizzas, at one time, in 350 degrees F oven on a cookie pan/flat pan, and bake for 2 minutes to melt the cheese. Sprinkle 1 teaspoon chopped cilantro evenly over the top of each pizza. Serve each pizza whole.
