Brisket pizza is a beef lover’s treat. With Sticky Sweet BBQ sauce for the sauce base, just add cheese, onion and chopped tomato. I’ve added a healthy amount of Jalapeno peppers to make this a spicy version and finished with ranch dressing and cilantro. You crowd will be howling for more. A delicious way to use left over beef brisket.
What You Can Expect From This Recipe
Cooking a full brisket will more than likely leave you with BBQ Brisket leftovers. And one of my favorite ways to use up some of that tender meat is to make Brisket Pizza.
I like to make this project as easy as possible, so I purchase pre-made pizza shells. After all, leftovers are supposed to be easy meals … right? Whole Foods has packaged version, King Soopers carries a copy-cat of this idea. And there’s always Boboli. Which I’ve never tried.
Recommended: You can also purchase fresh pizza dough from practically every grocery store. And I’ve even called ahead to my favorite pizza joint and ordered an already rolled out naked pizza shell. And they don’t charge much to do that.
With that said, I think you’re going to love using BBQ sauce for the base of this pizza.
I like to use a rich sticky sweet sauce. Stubb’s brand has a bottle with brown sugar and molasses for an authentic Southern flavor. It was a great base for this BBQ brisket pizza and complimented the toppings perfectly. It’s actually called Stubbs Sticky Sweet BBQ Sauce.
We’ll layer the pizza with cheddar cheese, chopped red onion, and chopped tomatoes. I’m adding jalapeno peppers to spice things up. We’ll finish by adding some of that leftover beef brisket that’s either been chopped or shredded. Smoked or BBQ’d.
Finished with cilantro and ranch dressing, this is a delicious Western style pizza pie. The combination of flavors here are outstanding.
You an finish the pizza with regular ranch dressing, or consider using my recipe for Spicy Ranch Dressing.
Let’s take a look.
Noteworthy Ingredients
- 12″ pizza shell. Use a pre-made shell or purchased raw pizza dough from your grocery store.
- Tomatoes: I like to use Cherub brand tomatoes. They’re a type of grape tomato available year round. They’re sturdy and easy to slice.
- Your favorite BBQ Sauce.
- Jalapeno Peppers make this a spicy Brisket Pizza Recipe.
- Cheese: I like to use an orange cheese here, just for presentation reasons. The bright orange color looks bold with the deep color of the bbq sauce. You can use any good melting cheese such as cheddar (sharp or extra sharp) , Monterey Jack, Pepper Jack or even one of my favorites, Muenster cheese.
- Red Onion: I do like the bold flavor that red onion brings to this combination of ingredients, however, any variety of onion will work.
- Brisket: Use leftover shredded or chopped bbq or smoked beef brisket meat.
Step by Step Instructions, It’s Easy
- Step 1: Use the back of a spoon to coat the pizza dough with bbq sauce.
- Step 2: Add the grated cheese.
- Step 3: Sprinkle on the chopped red onion and chopped jalapeno pepper.
- Step 4: Add the chopped tomatoes.
- Step 5: Add the chopped or shredded leftover brisket.
- Step 6: Cook the pizza in the oven. When finished, use a spoon to drizzle on the Ranch Dressing and add the chopped cilantro. Slice and serve.
Tips For Success
- Don’t be tempted to pour on more bbq sauce. It’s a strong flavor that will dominate the other ingredients. If you add too much, it may make the crust soggy and it’s all you’ll tase. Less is more.
- If using a pizza stone, place the stone in the oven while it pre-heats. A hot stone will help the pizza cook more evenly.
- Use a large spoon to drizzle on the Ranch dressing.
- If using fresh pizza dough, once rolled out sprinkle the pizza stone with corn meal before adding the pizza dough. This will add a nice crunch to the cooked pizza.
- Removing veins and seeds before chopping Jalapeno Pepper will decrease the spicy heat level.
Storage and Reheating
Store any leftover pizza in the refrigerator wrapped in foil. To keep the crust nice and crispy, reheat any leftover for a few minutes in the oven, toaster oven or air-fryer.
Recipe for BBQ Brisket Pizza
Related Recipes
And if you’re looking for more recipe using bbq sauce, don’t miss my recipe for Meatloaf with BBQ Sauce. A unique and very tasty version of everyone’s favorite comfort food.
Spicy BBQ Brisket Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 12" Pizza shell
- ½ Cup Stubbs Sticky Sweet Legendary BBQ sauce or your favorite bbq sauce
- 1 Cup cheddar cheese grated.
- ⅛ Cup Red onion Chopped
- ½ Cup Tomato Rough chopped
- 1 – 2 Jalapeno Pepper chopped.
- 8 ounces Leftover smoked or BBQ Brisket chopped or shredded
- Fresh cilantro fine chopped and Ranch Dressing for topping
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 or 425 degrees. Depending on which pizza dough you use and instructions per that product. Sprinkle pizza stone or baking sheet with corn meal. Add the pizza stone to the oven to heat up while you build the brisket pizza.
- Use the back of a large spoon to evenly coat the dough with the BBQ sauce. Leave about ½ inch from the edge without sauce. Sprinkle on the grated cheddar cheese.
- Add chopped onion, chopped jalapeno pepper, chopped tomato, ending with the shredded or chopped bbq brisket.
Notes
- Don’t be tempted to pour on more bbq sauce. It’s a strong flavor that will dominate the other ingredients. If you add too much, it may make the crust soggy and it’s all you’ll tase. Less is more.
- If using a pizza stone, place the stone in the oven while it pre-heats. A hot stone will help the pizza cook more evenly.
- Use a large spoon to drizzle on the Ranch dressing.
- If using fresh pizza dough, once rolled out sprinkle the pizza stone with corn meal before adding the pizza dough. This will add a nice crunch to the cooked pizza.
- Removing veins and seeds before chopping Jalapeno Pepper will decrease the spicy heat level.
Nutrition
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BBQ Brisket Pizza … It’s what’s for Dinner
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This combination idea is so amazing. Love it !!!
Wow Lea Ann! that pic of the brisket pizza is magazine worthy, looks fabulous! Happy 4th to you!
Looks delicious Lea Ann and great use of leftover brisket – I’ve done pulled pork on pizza but don’t know that I’ve ever done brisket. Based on your blog, I bought some Stubbs sauce the other day.
Nothing like great brisket and what a fun idea to try! Great photo!
BBQ brisket is terrific stuff. Unless you do it outside on the smoker a lot, I think most people get better results in the oven. Anyway, love combining this with pizza. Really inspired! Thanks.
What a genius combination! I would love to celebrate the Fourth with pizza!