If you love Mexican food and pizza, why not combine them into one delicious pizza? This Carnitas Tacos Pizza features pork carnitas, salsa, corn, cheese, and more!
How many times have you found yourself having to choose between Mexican food and pizza?
Every time? Me too.
That, my friend, is why I invented the Carnitas Taco Pizza.
It is a sturdy handshake (or sultry hug) between classic pork carnitas and the tastiest pizza.
Ingredients for Carnitas Taco Pizza:
I make a gluten-free pizza crust using gluten-free all-purpose flour, but you can use your preferred pizza dough recipe. You can also try my recipe for Cauliflower Pizza Crust.
For the carnitas, I used my Crock Pot Carnitas recipe.
Basically, you put a pork roast in the crock pot with fresh lime juice, garlic, and some spices. Cook it all day on low. Shred the meat and use it for topping your gluten free carnitas pizza!
I used Red Chili Tomato Salsa for the pizza sauce. You can also use my Chili Verde Salsa recipe if you like green salsa. SHABAM!
Other toppings? Cheese, corn, and fresh cilantro.
Recipe Customizations:
- Add or subtract toppings! Consider using chopped onions, olives, chorizo, sausage, pepperoni, etc.
- Swap the carnitas for leftover Mexican shredded chicken.
- Add cotija cheese or queso fresco.
- Serve the pizza with a drizzle of crema and/or guacamole.
How to Make Carnitas Taco Pizza:
- Begin by preparing the pizza dough. Pizza dough can take several hours to prepare, so give yourself plenty of time to make it in advance.
- Prepare the Carnitas, or use leftover carnitas.
- Make the Pizza! Pre-bake the pizza crust, then top it with salsa, the shredded pork, cheese, corn, and cilantro. Bake it in the oven until it is nice and crispy!
- Slice and serve!
Store leftover pizza in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Looking for more pizza crust options to use for your gluten free pizzas? Here are some great choices.
More Gluten Free Pizza Crust Options:
- Perry’s Plate: Cauliflower Pizza Crust
- Pinch of Yum: Light BBQ Chicken Pizza (with Cauliflower Pizza Crust)
- The Roasted Root: Almond Flour Pizza Crust
- The Best of this Life: Gluten-Free Pizza Crust
If you’re addicted to fun, also try my Chicken Pesto Pizza!
The next time you have leftover carnitas, or you’re in the mood for both Mexican and Italian, whip up this fun and unique pizza recipe!
Carnitas Taco Pizza
Ingredients
For the Carnitas and Salsa recipe:
For the Gluten Free Pizza Dough
- ¾ cup water at 100 degrees F
- 1 packet active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 1/4 cup Gluten Free All Purpose Flour + More for kneading.
For the Pizza:
- 15 ounces salsa for the sauce
- 8 ounces Mozzarella cheese shredded
- 2 ears of corn cooked and kernels removed
- cups Shredded Pork 1 to 2 worth
- Fresh cilantro
Instructions
To Make the Gluten Free Pizza Dough:
- Pour ¾ cup warm water in a bowl. No higher than 100 degrees, no less than 80 degrees (water should feel slightly warm to the touch).
- Add the packet of yeast and mix using a fork.
- Add ¼ cup of the all-purpose flour and mix until all hunks are out.
- Allow this mixture to sit for 15 minutes with a towel covering the bowl. This process gives the yeast time to activate and some food to munch on to make it happy.
- Add 1 cup of flour to the yeast and mix thoroughly.
- Begin adding the remaining flour, ¼ cup at a time and mixing until incorporated.
- By now, the dough should be forming and moving away from the sides of the bowl. If it is still too sticky to grab with your hands, dust a little more flour on the dough.
- Turn dough out onto a floured surface and knead for a minute or so. The dough needs to stay soft and not get too tough, so don’t overzealously knead. You should end up with a ball of dough that does not stick to your hands but also does not crumble apart.
- Coat the ball of dough with a little olive oil and place it in a large mixing bowl with a towel over it.
- Allow dough to sit 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 375?F.
- Prepare a pizza tray or baking dish by coating it lightly with olive oil.
- Remove dough from bowl, knead for about 30 seconds, then either roll the dough out or press it into your pizza tray or baking dish using your hands. If the dough gets craggly around the edges, simply smooth it out by pressing it together.
- Bake the dough for 15 – 18 minutes until it begins to turn golden brown on the edges and feels firm to the touch.
- Remove pizza crust from the oven then build you’re momentously delicious pizza.
- Start by adding desired amount of salsa (use a slotted spoon to scoop the salsa on the pizza if there is a lot of liquid in it), then cheese and corn, then your shredded pork.
- Bake pizza for 15 to 20 minutes until cheese is golden, the pork is crispy and the crust is at desired level of crisp.
- Add fresh cilantro and enjoy!
Notes
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Looks very yummy but if you really want the pizza gluten free, you can’t have the pork with beer. Beer has gluten from Barley. My daughter has celiac disease so we have to be so careful, no one can even touch her food it they’ve touched bread or the utensils have ever been used with anything gluten. She’s that sensitive.
I’m just saying this as a warning in case people are thinking that just bread is the only thing with gluten. I’m on a mission to educate people since most people really don’t get it.
Hi Betty! You make an excellent point and I’m completely on board with educating people about food allergies, particularly wheat, so I say thank you for paying attention to detail! I went ahead and added this to the notes on the recipe card so that there’s no confusion about the gluten in beer. Thanks so much for taking the time to give me feedback and I hope your week is going well so far!
Hey. No more crying, ya hear?? Not unless I’m there and we are crying over Grey’s together.
pizza+tacos=love.for.ev.er.
Ha, I just love this post! I cry at some of the stupidest things simply because I just need a good cry! Sometimes crying really just makes you feel better! This pizza looks so good, I have heard all about these cauliflower pizza crust and I thinks it is time a give one a try. Plus anything is good loaded with cheese!
I have pretty much been a hot mess recently so this post made me feel better! Glad I am in good company. Love the sound of this pizza!
Oh thank goodness! I have been a weepy thing and I’m it’s made plenty-o-folks around me slightly uncomfortable…but that’s the way she goes…ya just gotta let the eyes flow from time to time 😉 So happy I’m not the only one! 🙂
I get the crying bit – things tend to get a little emotional around here too 🙂
What a great looking pizza – so fresh and delicious and I love the bits of corn.
Oh my gosh, this pizza looks SOOOO delicious!!! I love this idea! This would be a great dinner for me to make for friends. Hope your week gets better! 🙂
I’m pretty much obsessed with tacos, so I love any unconventional vehicle for taco filling deliver. Sounds tasty!
Ooooh yes, I know all the versions of crying all too well. Kind of like when I cry at a random Huggies or Budweiser commercial. True story.
But this pizza makes me want to cry in all the good ways! YUM.
YES! What about country music videos? Stick me in front of CMT and I melt…it’s a spectacle. 🙂
I laughed out loud when you said getting carried away feels good, it does! Gooorgeous pizza, you have truly mastered the art of gluten free. 🙂