School Fiestada Pizza

This tasty lunch treat was one of the highest requested school lunch recipe requests. While our school bought them already made, I found the brand they bought, dissected the list of ingredients and created a homemade version that is spot-on!!

Prep Time20

Cook Time25

Total Time45

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Keyword: pizza

Servings: servings

Ingredients

13.8 oz prepared or homemade pizza dough
1 lb ground beef
2 ½ teaspoon taco seasoning
¾ cup pizza sauce
¾ teaspoon ground cumin
¼ teaspoon salt
2 cups shredded Mexican cheese blend divided

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 450°F.
Presss pizza dough in an even layer on a parchment paper-lined jelly roll size pan. Pierce with a fork, bake 3 minutes, then remove from the oven.
To a skillet on medium-high heat, crumble and cook ground beef until no longer pink. Drain of excess grease.
To the beef in the skillet, stir in taco seasoning. In a small bowl, mix together pizza sauce, cumin, and salt.
Spread the sauce over the crust. Sprinkle evenly half of the cheese on top, followed by the beef, then the remaining cheese.
Bake 11-13 minutes or until the cheese is starting to brown and dough cooked through.