Copy Cat Taco Bell Mexican Pizza Recipe (+ Video)
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There is no need to “make a run for the border” when you are craving a Taco Bell Mexican Pizza – make this homemade version right at home! Crispy tortilla with seasoned ground beef, refried beans, cheese, and your favorite toppings. This Copy Cat Taco Bell Mexican Pizza Recipe is so much better than that fast-food favorite when made in your own kitchen!
Taco night never tasted so good! Make this long-time family favorites Copycat Taco Bell Mexican Pizza Recipe for Taco Tuesday and watch the smiles come across all of the faces around your table.
COPY CAT TACO BELL MEXICAN PIZZA
WHAT IS TACO BELL MEXICAN PIZZA?
If you have never tried the Taco Bell Mexican Pizza then you are missing out on a fast-food stroke of genius. The Mexican pizza from Taco Bell takes a couple of flour tortillas to act as the crust. These tortillas are fried crispy and stand up to the ingredients the way a typical pizza crust should. Then, a layer of seasoned taco meat and refried beans are added to the bottom “crust”. The next tortilla layer is added. On top of that, the melted cheese, green onions, olives and tomatoes are added. Melt that cheese and they are ready to eat!
WHAT INGREDIENTS DOES TACO BELL FEATURE IN MEXICAN PIZZA?
Taco Bell allows you to build your own custom Mexican Pizza so of course, you can do the same at home. In fact, you can get every bit as creative with your toppings as a regular pizza. At Taco Bell, they offer a variety of sauces, guacamole, and sour cream. They also have options like chicken, lettuce, rice, seasoned Doritos, and chopped onions.
Ingredients in Homemade Mexican Pizza
You will find the complete measurements and instructions at the bottom of this post in a printable recipe card.
- lean ground beef, browned and seasoned. Also a good use for leftover taco meat. Ground turkey could be substituted.
- onion, diced
- garlic, minced
- Taco Seasoning, use one packet of taco seasoning from the store or make your own taco seasoning at home
- Salt and Pepper
- Refried beans, warmed, use fat-free or regular.
- Salsa or taco sauce, your choice, we buy the Taco Bell Taco Sauce in a bottle
- flour tortillas, 6″ soft taco size
- Shredded Mexican Cheese, you can grab a bag of the three-cheese blend at the store, or grate your own
- Green Onions, sliced
- tomatoes, diced
- black olives, sliced (optional)
- Non-Stick Cooking Spray
Feel free to top the pizzas with your favorite taco toppings of your choosing. Other ideas would be spicy jalapeño slices, shredded lettuce or even guacamole.
How to Make Taco Bell Mexican Pizza At Home
In a skillet cook ground beef with onions and garlic, salt and pepper to taste, drain, add taco seasoning packet and 1/4 cup water, and simmer for about 10 minutes. Set Aside.
Spray a small skillet with non-stick cooking spray and place on the stove over medium heat and place a tortilla in the skillet and let it slightly brown, and flip it to do the other side. Place them on a paper towel until you’re ready to “build” your pizzas.
Place about 1/3 cup of refried beans and top with about 1/2 cup of beef mixture, spread to coat. Top with another tortilla.
Place under a broiler set on low for about 5 minutes. Remove from oven.
Spread with 2-3 Tablespoons of salsa/taco sauce. Sprinkle with tomatoes, green onions and cheese. Top with olives.
Broil on high for 3-5 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
Remove from oven, plate, slice and dig in!
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FAQs about this Mexican Pizza Copycat Recipe
- Why did Taco Bell discontinue Mexican Pizza? Taco Bell claimed they got rid of the Mexican Pizza to make way for new menu items. Mexican pizza lovers, like me, were not happy about the news.
- Is Taco Bell bringing back the Mexican Pizza? Due to customer interest, the fast-food chains classic Mexican pizza was said to make its comeback in 2022. It did, but here where I live it felt like it was only for a limited time. All of the sudden it was gonna again, and said “Temporarily out of stock.” I wasn’t discouraged though, because I prefer to make them at home, using simple ingredients that I know where they came from. Homemade is always better.
- What is Taco Bell Mexican Pizza crust made of? The pizza “crust” is made of crisp flour tortillas. You could substitute corn tortillas, but the outcome will taste different.
- What is Taco Bell Pizza Sauce? The sauce isn’t pizza sauce at all. They use their taco sauce in place of traditional pizza sauce.
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SEE ALL OF MY RESTAURANT COPY CAT RECIPES
There is no need to “make a run for the border” when you are craving a Taco Bell Mexican Pizza – make this one right at home!
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Copy Cat Taco Bell Mexican Pizza
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1-1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
- 1 small onion diced
- 2-3 cloves of garlic minced
- 1 packet Taco Bell Taco Seasoning or your own homemade
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 1 15 ounce can Fat-Free refried beans, warmed
- Salsa or taco sauce your choice, we buy the Taco Bell Taco Sauce in a bottle
- 8 - 6 " flour tortillas soft taco size
- 2 cups Shredded Mexican Cheese divided
- tops of 4 Green Onions sliced
- 4 Roma sized tomatoes diced
- Sliced black olives optional
- Non-Stick Cooking Spray
Instructions
- In a skillet brown your ground beef with onions and garlic, salt and pepper to taste, drain, add taco seasoning packet and 1/4 cup water and simmer for about 10 minutes.
- Set Aside.
- Spray a small skillet with non-stick cooking spray and place on the stove over medium heat.
- Place a tortilla in the skillet and let it slightly brown, and flip it to do the other side
- Place them on a paper towel until you’re ready to “build” your pizzas.
- We made 4 pizzas, so you will need 8 tortillas browned on both sides.
- Now it’s time to BUILD your pizzas.
- Place about 1/3 cup of refried beans and top with about 1/2 cup beef mixture, spread to coat.
- Top with other tortilla.
- Place under broiler set on low for about 5 minutes.
- Remove from oven.
- Spread with 2-3 Tablespoons of salsa/taco sauce.
- Sprinkle with tomatoes, green onions and cheese.
- Top with olives.
- Broil on high for 3-5 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
- Remove from oven, plate, slice and dig in!
Nutrition
I can’t believe how good this pizza looks! Who needs taco bell when we have something like this?! Great post and thank you for dropping by our Pizza Party!
I love Taco Bell but have never tried the Mexican pizza. Now I can’t wait to make this. Thanks for sharing!
This tasted just like Mexican Pizza – one of my childhood favorites from Taco Bell! Love the copycat recipe!
This Mexican pizza is so good and so easy. It’s great that it can be customized with things I have at home. 🙂
Well doesn’t this recipe look super easy and delicious!
I agree! In fact, why not making this delicious pizza at home this weekend, right?! Can’t wait to experiment with it a bit – I am sure it will a lot of fun!
Yours look so good, that is what I order when I do go to Taco Bell which is about 2-3 times a year. Mine when I get home in that little box it comes in, I usually have to scrape off the ingredients off the lid. Now I am going to make my own. Thanks
I stopped eating fast food years ago, but have still been craving some of my favorites like this taco bell pizza… so happy to get to make it at home. It was delicious and satisfied all my fast food cravings!
What a fun recipe to make with my kids! Adding this to my dinner line up for the week; yum!
I know my nephew would love this! He’s a fan of anything from taco bell. I’ll have to save this to make for him!
Get in my belly! Making this pizza soon for sure!
Yes please to pizza every night of the week. This Mexican Pizza looks too good to miss. I love how it is copy cat but you can do it at home and not have to head out. So good, can’t wait to try, the salsa sounds so good!!
delicious recipe with lots of tasty toppings! It was fun to make at home with the kids
I’ve never tried the Taco bell version but i loved this so much. A mix of pizza and Mexican food gets my vote every time.
Drooling over this MExican pizza. Looks so delicious. Thanks for sharing
We love pizza and we love mexican food, now I have to try this recipe! It looks utterly delicious.
I made these Mexican pizzas for dinner last night and my family loved them! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe!
Oh yum! This is my perfect dinner. Easy and delicious. Thanks for the inspiration!
This is absolutely the best thing ever! I LOVE Taco Bell’s Mexican pizza, and this is actually even better.
This is a huge win for all Mexican pizza lovers! I love how easy it is to customize these, and they might even be better than Taco Bell’s were (if that’s even possible). Thanks so much for the recipe, a new favorite!!