Birria Pizza
This Birria Pizza represents tender birria beef or lamb, oodles of flavors, cheese, your favorite toppings all over an airy fluffy pizza dough with a delicate crisp. Make it even better by dipping each slize of birria pizza into the birria sauce! Another must MAKE Birria Recipe with Video!
Ingredients
Pizza
- 1/2 batch no knead pizza dough you'll need half of it for one large pizza
- 2 cups cheese mozzarella with monterey jack or am combo
- 3/4 cup Birria Stew
- 1 cup Birria Meat or lamb, shredded finely.
- 1/3 cup onion white onion, deiced
- 1 Jalapeño sliced
Birria Topping and Dip
- 1/3 cup white onion diced
- 1/4 cup cilantro leaves minced
- 1 Jalapeño sliced
- 1 cup Birria Stew
Instructions
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Make sure your pizza dough is ready to work with. That means if you're making the Overnight pizza dough-it has risen and ready the next day. Or if you're making the homemade pizza dough, that it has risen the first rise and ready to shape and use.
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Preheat the oven to the highest setting possible. If you have a baking steel or pizza stone--place that on the rack before preheating.
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Stretch out your pizza dough to the desired thickness you want the birria pizza to be.
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The first layer over the pizza dough is the cheese. Spread a nice layer to cover all the surface of the dough. Use about 1 1/2 cup.
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Take your birria stew and spoon in the sauce over the cheese. if some of the sauce leaks into the dough, it's ok. As long as the cheese covers the majority of the dough then you won’t end up with a soggy pizza.
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Add the shredded beef or lamb over the sauce layer,
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Finish off with the toppings and a scatter of more cheese (1/2 cup).
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Bake the pizza for about 15 minutes until crisp. If you like a charred cheese top, feel free to broil the pizza for a few extra minutes.
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When out of the oven, add some of the onions , cilantro , jalapeños and figs if you want.
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Take a pizza slice and dip it right into the birria stew for maximum flavor!
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
Birria Pizza Tips + Q&A
- Chose between store bought (least recommended), No Knead Pizza Dough (recommended) or Pizza Dough Recipe (recommended).
- When making Birria Tacos or Lamb Birria, always make extra because you'll need the leftovers for today's recipe or for Birria Ramen.
- Use your favorite type of cheese (s) here.
- Aways start with a layer of cheese over the dough instead of sauce to avoid a soggy pizza.
- Add topping twice to your pizza for the ultimate flavor! Add some before baking, and keep other toppings to add right after the pizza is out of the oven.
- Baking pizza is a science-read all about it in the Pizza dough posts above to decide on the wait ties, baking times and temperatures.
Can I store Birria Pizza leftovers?
I highly doubt you'll have any leftovers from this delicious birria pizza but if you want to store it, let the pizza cool to room temperature. Slice the pizza and put it in an airtight container. You can store it in the refrigerator for 4 days. You can reheat it in your oven for 5-8 minutes to make it taste fresh.
How to reheat pizza?
My ultimate favorite way to reheat pizza is using the air fryer! You can read all about that in this Air Fryer Pizza post--another must try recipe!