Make pizza night more exciting by serving his taco inspired pizza dish. It’s packed with chicken and vegetables. My husband calls it my “superstar chicken taco pizza recipe” because it’s a winner whenever I make it. It tastes just like delivery, is easy to make, and is ready in 30 minutes. Let’s cook!
Why this recipe for chicken taco pizza is the best…
- It’s pretty fast to make.
- It’s an easy, fun, and creative pizza night idea.
- Beautiful presentation (great game day food option).
- Make it more healthy by loading it up with vegetables.
- I’m here to walk you through it with a video for beginners (scroll to bottom of page).
See how to make a smoked margarita…
Ingredients
Make this your own favorite pizza with taco toppings you love. Here’s what I used…
- Pizza dough (store bought dough or homemade pizza dough – let it rise on a counter 2+ hours in advance)
- Flour (to dust the dough)
- Olive oil
- Pizza sauce
- Taco seasoning
- Mexican cheese blend (shredded mild or medium heat)
- Cooked chicken breast (use leftover or make pan grilled chicken on stove)
- Lettuce
- Diced Tomato
- Tortilla chips (crushed)
- Cilantro
- A sauce like avocado hot sauce, sour cream, or make my easy jalapeno ranch dressing you’ll find here on Sip Bite Go.
If you’ve never worked with pizza dough before (or stretched dough successfully, without holes) – I have a pizza dough stretching guide on Sip Bite Go that will help.
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How to make my chicken taco pizza recipe
The gist of it is that you stretch pizza dough. Then add the dough, sauce, taco seasonings, cheese and cooked chicken breast to a hot pizza stone (or pizza pan or sheet tray). Bake it for about 15 minutes.
Top with veggies, sauce and crushed tortilla chips. Slice and enjoy!
See my guide to making crispy stone crust pizza…
- Preheat the oven to 475°F. If you’re using a pizza stone, add it to the center rack. If you’re using a sheet tray, see the notes at the bottom of this recipe for instructions (if so – you need to par bake the dough).
- Prep pizza dough station. Dust a large cutting board with half the flour. Add the other half of the flour to the corner of the cutting board to use as you stretch the dough.
- Stretch pizza dough. Add the raw dough to the floured surface. See the recipe card for complete step by step guide to stretching dough. Or see my online guide to stretching pizza dough.
- Carefully take the hot pizza stone out of the oven once it has preheated, and quickly brush half of the olive oil on the top of the pizza stone. Add the raw stretched pizza dough on top, and brush the rest of the olive oil along the outside 1” of the pizza crust (to give it a golden brown crust once baked).
- Work quickly to assemble chicken taco pizza toppings so the pizza stone stays hot. Add pizza sauce to the dough and spread it around, leaving 1” on the outside without sauce for the pizza crust. Sprinkle with taco seasonings. Top with Mexican cheese blend and cooked chicken breast.
- Bake chicken taco pizza on pizza stone for 10-15 minutes at 475°F, until Mexican cheese is melted and starts to bubble on top. You may need to rotate it in the oven and cook for an extra few minutes so the bottom crust and edges all turn golden brown.
- Remove taco pizza from the oven and let it rest a couple minutes. Top it with a sprinkle of lettuce, tomatoes, crushed tortilla chips, cilantro, and your favorite sauces. Slice and serve when cool enough to eat.
Next, try a taco-inspired ground beef pizza.
For a spin on this recipe, try chicken taco french bread pizza.
Or change up the flavors by using bbq chicken tacos, enchilada sauce chicken, or this tasty al pastor chicken tacos recipe.
FAQs
If you don’t have a pizza stone, I highly recommend you get one! They make cooking pizza at home more fun, because the pizza crust gets a texture just like the best pizza delivery restaurants near me. You can shop my pizza stone on Amazon. It’s beautiful for not only baking your favorite pepperoni pizza, but serving it, too. The color in my photos is Charcoal.
Serve it with your favorite Mexican inspired sauces: jalapeno ranch dressing, salsa, sour cream, hot sauce, taco sauce, a squeeze of lime juice, guacamole. The sauce used in this demo was part of a sponsored post for Instagram (it’s avocado hot sauce).
Here are two ideas: make a taco pizza filling that’s a bean and chicken mixture. To do this, add drained and rinsed black beans to the pizza, before adding on the cheese and baking it. Or, you can swap out the traditional tomato pizza sauce and use refried beans instead. (See tips on freezing refried beans.)
The Perfect Pizza Setup
Want to make restaurant style pizza at home? I’ve got you covered! Here are some of my top tips, tricks, secret ingredients and tools for a pizza night everyone will look forward to, again and again.
- NEVER do this… Contrary to what most people believe, when baking pizza on a sheet pan, never add toppings to raw pizza dough. Instead, follow my recipe for making homemade pizza with ready made dough, which will teach you how to par bake pizza dough first.
- Get help from secret ingredients…
– This dough seasoning is the secret to real Italian-tasting homemade pizza dough.
– Add pizza seasoning to store bought pizza sauce. This makes the pizza taste really fresh! - Herbs are for after… In my weekly pizza making practice, I’ve found that fresh herbs, like basil, need to be added to pizza after the pizza is done baking (so the herbs don’t wilt).
- Buy fresh dough and get amazing results. Yup, fresh dough from grocery stores is one of my favorite short-cuts. Learn how to use fresh Trader Joe’s pizza dough and Whole Foods pizza dough with my tutorials.
- Frozen pizza can taste amazing, too!! Learn how to spruce it up with this recipe for pizza using frozen crust.
- Slice pizza pies like a chef with just a few swipes, using big ol’ pizza cutters.
- Want to grill pizza? Here are some pizza grilling tools to check out.
- Do you really need to cook pizza on the rack? Nope! I basically never do. Here are tools you see me using in my tutorials on cooking pizza in the oven…
– Bake pizza on a rimmed baking pan set to get a beautiful golden brown crust.
– Love crispy crust? Let the air flow with this dishwasher safe pizza pan.
– Get personal – let your fam / friends top their own pies with this set of personal pizza pans.
More pizza recipes from Sip Bite Go
- Cheeseburger pizza
- Philly cheese steak pizza
- Smoked Traeger pizza
- Chicken spinach pizza with bacon
- Homemade pizza dough
- Pizza sauce recipe
- White pizza sauce
- See tips for stretching pizza dough by hand
- Learn how to make frozen premade pizza crust taste better
- GUIDE: how to cook chicken breast for pizza
It’s better than delivery pizza, it’s so good!
Since making this pizza, I’ve noticed a chicken taco pizza Domino’s and Pizza Hut delivery sell. I think there’s also a “Mexican pizza” at Taco Bell. Well, I thought it was pretty original at the time the idea popped into my head.
Are you a foodie, too?
Hey home chefs, I hope that answers all your questions about making a taco style pizza. It’s definitely a must-try recipe (along with this Philly cheese steak pizza). When you make it, you’ll have to send me your pics on Instagram @sipbitego. And for more deliciousness, subscribe to the Sip Bite Go channel and see the Sip Bite Go recipe collection.
Tasty Chicken Taco Pizza Recipe | Sip Bite Go
Equipment
- pizza stone
- sheet pan
- oven
Ingredients
- 1 ball pizza dough store bought or homemade pizza dough, let it rise on a counter 2+ hours in advance
- 1 tbsp flour
- 1 tsp olive oil
- 1.5 cup pizza sauce
- ½ tsp taco seasoning
- 2 cups Mexican cheese shredded
- ½ cup chicken breast cooked, diced
- ¼ cup lettuce shredded
- 1 to tomato diced
- 5 to tortilla chips crushed
- 1 tsp cilantro fresh
- 1 tbsp avocado hot sauce or sour cream, or see notes for my jalapeno ranch dressing
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 475°F. If you’re using a pizza stone, add it to the center rack. If you’re using a sheet tray, see the notes at the bottom of this recipe for instructions (if so – you need to par bake the dough).
- Prep pizza dough station. Dust a large cutting board with half the flour. Add the other half of the flour to the corner of the cutting board to use as you stretch the dough.
- Stretch pizza dough. Add the raw dough to the floured surface. Dust all sides lightly with flour. Start pinching the outside 1” of the pizza dough, in a circular motion, to outline the crust and start forming a circular shaped pizza. Then alternate between pressing the center of the dough against the cutting board, and using the back of your knuckles to stretch the dough from underneath, pulling it outwards in a circular motion. Dusting the pizza dough along the way with the extra flour helps it retain a larger size instead of shrinking back up to a ball. You can also use a rolling pin (dusted with flour) to stretch it. Use as many different techniques as needed to stretch the dough. See my guide on Sip Bite Go to stretching pizza dough.
- Carefully take the hot pizza stone out of the oven once it has preheated, and quickly brush half of the olive oil on the top of the pizza stone. Add the raw stretched pizza dough on top, and brush the rest of the olive oil along the outside 1” of the pizza crust (to give it a golden brown crust once baked).
- Work quickly to assemble chicken taco pizza toppings so the pizza stone stays hot. Add pizza sauce to the dough and spread it around, leaving 1” on the outside without sauce for the pizza crust. Sprinkle with taco seasonings. Top with Mexican cheese blend and cooked chicken breast.
- Bake chicken taco pizza on pizza stone for 10-15 minutes at 475°F, until Mexican cheese is melted and starts to bubble on top. You may need to rotate it in the oven and cook for an extra few minutes so the bottom crust and edges all turn golden brown.
- Remove taco pizza from the oven and let it rest a couple minutes. Top it with a sprinkle of lettuce, tomatoes, crushed tortilla chips, cilantro, and your favorite sauces. Slice and serve when cool enough to eat.
Video
Notes
- No pizza stone? No problem. See this recipe for making pizza on a baking sheet tray. The steps are a little bit different (you’ll need to parbake the dough for 7 minutes since you’re not using a pizza stone), but it’s very easy.
- In the photos, you’ll see I used a green sauce – it’s an avocado hot sauce from a brand promotion I did on Instagram. For similar results, use a cilantro lime dressing. Or use sour cream, or make my easy jalapeno ranch dressing here on Sip Bite Go.
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