Make the best Philly Cheese Steak Pizza with this super easy recipe! This beef pizza is loaded with pizza toppings including Philly steak, peppers, onions, and a white pizza sauce with parmesan cheese that’s “to die for”. Let’s make this gourmet homemade pizza!
1cup steakcooked and sliced thin (rare / medium-rare is best)
1cup onions and pepperssautéed
1 tsp parsleyfresh chopped
Instructions
Help pizza dough rise in advance
If you’ve been with me for a while here at Sip Bite Go, you know that I recommend taking the pizza dough out of the fridge the morning of making the pizza. At a minimum, taking the dough out of the fridge to rise for a couple of hours (preferably in a sunny window) will help it stretch and will make a really light, fluffy pizza crust.
To make the Philly cheesesteak white pizza sauce
Roast garlic. In a small pan on medium-low heat, add olive oil and garlic. Sauté garlic about 3 minutes until translucent, stirring regularly. Remove from heat before garlic browns. Set aside.
Heat butter with flour. Add butter to a small sauce pan on medium heat. Once butter melts, add flour by whisking it in slowly so it doesn’t clump. Cook flour and milk (aka a roux or Béchamel sauce) for about 1 minute until it turns light brown and the air smells nutty.
Add milk to white pizza sauce. With the sauce pan on medium heat, slowly pour cold milk into the roux, whisking as it incorporates. Turn the heat of the burner to high, and once the milk bubbles (1-2 minutes later), reduce the heat to medium. Then add cooked garlic olive oil mixture to the roux. Continue to whisk ingredients as they bubble for 1 minute. Turn off the heat of the burner (leaving the pan on the burner is fine to pick up residual heat).
Add the rest of the white pizza sauce ingredients. Add seasonings to the mixture (salt, black pepper, Italian dried seasonings). Add parmesan cheese and whisk until combined and the sauce becomes smooth. Remove from the burner, stir in the fresh chopped parsley, and set aside while making the pizza. Or store in the refrigerator and reheat on low if making the sauce more than 20 minutes in advance.
How to sauté onions and peppers topping for pizza
Add all ingredients (except for the butter) for the onions and peppers to a large pan or large skillet on the stove, on medium-high heat. Sauté for ~5 minutes, stirring regularly.
Add butter and cook for another 5-10 minutes, stirring regularly. Remove from heat before sautéed onions and peppers brown. The sautéd veggies are ready when the onions and peppers are roasted on the edges and softened.
BAKING OPTION 1 - Make Philly Cheesesteak Pizza on a PIZZA STONE
Preheat oven to 460ºF and preheat the pizza stone. (Consult your pizza stone to ensure the cooking temperature is safe and appropriate for your particular brand. This pizza stone from Emily Henry was provided by the brand for me to use in cooking demonstrations and they suggest cooking pizza on a stone at 460ºF.)
Stretch the pizza dough. (see tips on Sip Bite Go — there is an entire tutorial to help you out if you like visuals, or see tips in the notes of this recipe.)
Assemble pizza. Take the pizza stone out of the oven and brush half the olive oil on the pizza stone. Carefully add raw pizza to the hot pizza stone. Add the pizza toppings right on top of the raw pizza dough. First, brush olive oil on the outside crust of the pizza in a circle shape. Then add sauce to the center of the raw pizza dough leaving 1” on the outside for the crust. Sprinkle on the cheese. Top with cooked steak slices and sautéed onions and peppers.
Bake pizza. Add pizza (on the pizza stone) to the oven and bake at 460ºF for 10-15 minutes (or for the time and temperature for baking pizza on your pizza stone). Pizza is ready when cheese has completely melted and is starting to bubble. The bottom of the dough should be golden brown.
Serve pizza. Slice and serve with a sprinkle of fresh chopped parsley.
BAKING OPTION 2 - Make Philly Cheesesteak Pizza on a SHEET PAN
Preheat the oven for baking the Philly steak pizza. Preheat the oven to 450ºF. Set out a large rimmed baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush half of the olive oil on the parchment paper.
Stretch the pizza dough. See tips in the notes section at the bottom of this recipe.
Par bake pizza dough on the sheet pan. When the dough has stretched as far as it will go without holes, transfer the stretched pizza dough to the baking sheet (you’ll need both hands — up to your elbows!) Brush the remaining olive oil around the outside of the pizza dough so when it bakes, you’ll get a golden crust. DON’T add toppings at this time! Bake the “naked pizza” as I call it, in the oven for 7 minutes at 450ºF.
Prep oven for the second bake. Once the pizza has par-baked, remove it from the oven and preheat the oven to 500ºF.
Add pizza toppings. Add the white Philly cheese sauce, cheese, steak, and cooked onions and peppers.
Bake pizza with toppings. Bake the steak pizza with toppings at 500ºF degrees F for 7-10 minutes, until the cheese has completely melted and is starting to bubble. The bottom of the crust should be golden brown.
Serve pizza. Slice and serve with a sprinkle of fresh chopped parsley.
Video
Notes
Leftover, refrigerated steak is perfect for this recipe because chilled steak is easier to slice.Tips for stretching dough (what I do)I put ½ a tablespoon of flour on a large cutting board, and put half in a pile in the corner of the cutting board. Once the premade pizza dough is out of the bag, I coat it all over in a light dusting of the flour.Then I set up the crust, by pinching the outside 1” in a circular motion until it becomes a thin crust. Then I alternate between pressing the center of the dough out on the cutting board, and using my knuckles from underneath to pull the dough in an outward motion.Dusting the pizza dough along the way helps it retain a larger size instead of shrinking back up to a ball. I don’t aim for a perfect square or circle - the most beautiful pizzas are au natural. Check out the Sip Bite Go guide to stretching pizza dough for visuals.See the recipe: https://sipbitego.com/philly-cheese-steak-pizzaSee the YouTube recipe video for Philly cheesesteak pizza.