Tortilla Pizzas are an easy way to serve up personal size pizzas. One simple method gives you unlimited flavor options. Simply stack your favorite flavors on a flour tortilla and pop them in the oven.
What Are Mini Tortilla Pizzas?
Mini tortilla pizzas are exactly what they sound like. Flour tortillas standing in for traditional pizza dough. Mini tortilla pizzas are small, easy-to-make pizzas. Tortillas act as the pizza crust, so you get a crispy, flat pizza that cooks fast and uses simple ingredients. Sauce, cheese and toppings, choose your favorites. They’re fun to make and perfect for snacks, parties, or quick dinners. Kids (of all ages) love them.
What Makes A Good Tortilla Pizza?
Not all pizza recipes with tortillas are created equal, ask me how … I know!
- Tortillas Matter: Flour tortillas win here. And purchase flour tortillas labeled “extra soft”, as they’ll mimic pizza dough better than the thinner tortillas. Flour tortillas crisp without shattering and still have a little chew. Corn tortillas can work, but in my books, you’re making a tostada instead of a pizza. Just know what you're getting into if you’re set on using corn tortillas.
- Size Matters: Street Sized Flour Tortillas. Mission brand makes them and they are labeled Street Tacos. They are normally 5″ in diameter. These small tortillas allow you to make more of these little pizzas at once. If they’re not available, 6-7″ will work better for crispy edges and handling. If you want to use a burrito sized flour tortillas, the dynamics change drastically. Stick with a smaller size.
- Sauce Matters: Go light. A healthy swipe that doesn’t reach to the edges of the tortillas is the rule here.
- Toppings Matter: As with any well executed pizza, you’ll need a good ratio of sauce, cheese and toppings. Cheese goes on top of the sauce. Mozzarella melts like a dream, cheddar brings sharpness, and dairy-free options can behave, if you keep expectations realistic.
- These little flour tortilla pizzas are perfect and crispy enough for holding in your hand, or cutting into bite-sized wedges.
Pro tip from someone who's burned a few batches and has ended up with soggy bottomed pizzas… stick to small 5, 6 or 8 inch flour tortillas. Easier to handle. Better crunch. Less mess.
In this post, you’ll find a few flavor combinations to get you started on your tortilla pizza journey.
Why Make Them?
You know those nights when you want pizza but don't want to deal with dough, flour on the counter, or waiting around for yeast to behave? Yeah. That's where mini tortilla pizzas walk in like they own the place.
They're small. They're fast. They're crunchy in all the right spots. And honestly, once you make them, it's hard to go back.
I learned the basics of this trick back in culinary school when we were playing around with flatbread. Back then it felt like a shortcut. Now? It feels like a special food find.
Ingredients You’ll Need
These ingredients are simply ideas, and some of my favorite flavor combinations from the many tortilla pizzas I’ve made. Here’s what’s important:
- Pizza Sauce: I don’t make my own pizza sauce and like the flavor of jarred Classico Traditional Pizza Sauce.
- Flour Tortillas: Street size, super soft. They are nice and pillow-y and best mimic pizza dough.
- Cheese: Any good melting cheese and grate it yourself.
Pro Tip: Purchase good quality cheese and grate it yourself. Pre-grated cheese in bags includes additives to keep it from clumping, which will also compromise the melting factor. Grating cheese from a block of cheese will result in a creamier and more consistent melting experience. Plus, it’s less expensive.
Step by Step Guide to How To Make A Pizza With Tortillas
Important Tool: Use a metal sheet pan. The heat it produces in the oven will toast the bottom side of the tortilla.
- Step 1: Using a silicone brush, brush both sides of the tortillas with olive oil. Oiling the flour tortilla sets the stage for a crispy crust for your tortilla pizza.
- Step 2: Add your sauce, and with the back of a spoon, coat the flour tortilla leaving some of the edge of the tortilla showing.
- Step 3: Next, start adding your ingredients. Cheddar cheese was next up for this version.
- Step 4: After the cheddar, try some crumbles of creamy goat cheese.
- Step 5: Add chopped sun-dried tomatoes and sliced black olives. The oven was standing by, preheated to 400 degrees. After about an eight-minute bake these mini flour tortilla pizzas were ready to devour. A single flour tortilla pizza is a nice snack size for one person, just grab it and dig in.
You’ll find the official recipe for how to make an oven tortilla pizza below, but first, using the technique, let’s take a look at more flavor combinations that work incredibly well for this tortilla pizza recipe.
Four Delicious Mini Tortilla Pizza Variations
The flavor combos I’m offering are somewhat gourmet, non-traditional pizza topping options. You most certainly can keep this pizza recipe with tortillas very traditional using your choice of pepperoni, Italian sausage, ground beef, pizza sauce and a good melting cheese.
Note: All combination measurement amounts are for 4, 6-inch street taco flour tortillas.
THAI ONE ON, Pizza Tortilla Recipe – Makes 4 Mini Pizzas
Thai Peanut Sauce, Jalapeno and Peanuts
- Sauce – ½ cup Thai Peanut Sauce (purchased)
- 2 cloves garlic – fine chopped
- Cheese – 1 cup shredded mozzarella
- ½ cup roasted red bell pepper, chopped
- 3 Tablespoons fresh basil, chopped
- 1 jalapeno pepper, seeded, deveined, diced – plus rings for garnish
- 3 tablespoons Sweet Chili Sauce, drizzled
- Chopped peanuts
Let it Brie
Pepperoni, Creamy Brie Cheese, Green Olives
- Cheese – 1 cup mozzarella, shredded
- 2 cloves garlic, diced
- 12 slices pepperoni, 3 slices each pizza
- Fresh basil leaves, torn, or 1 teaspoon total of dried basil, sprinkled on each pizza
- 12 green olives, halved (3-4 olives per pizza)
- creamy brie cheese, 1 heaping tablespoon per pizza, placed in chunks
Blue Bayou, Sausage and Shrimp Pizza Tortilla
- Blue Cheese Drizzle = ½ cup plain yogurt, ¼ cup crumbled blue cheese, ½ teaspoon Dijon mustard, ½ of a lemon, juiced
- ½ pound Andouille sausage, crumbled and browned
- 12-ish medium shrimp, cooked, tails removed (about 2 – 3 per pizza depending on the size of the shrimp)
- Sprinkle shrimp with Creole seasoning (optional)
The Gringo, Mexican Themed Pizza Tortilla Recipe
Green chili, cheddar cheese, spinach and chicken
- Sauce: ¾ cup Green Chili, about 2 – 3 tablespoons per pizza. Purchased, 505 is a good brand
- Cheese: Cheddar about 2 tablespoons per pizza
- Fresh Spinach: about 3 leaves per pizza
- Chicken: 2 – 3 tablespoons per pizza. Left-over rotisserie chicken works well for this
- Orange grape tomatoes, chopped or halved
- Sprinkle with New Mexican Chile Powder or cayenne
Tips For Success:
- Tortillas: Not all flour tortillas are created equal. You may find differences in thickness and ingredients may alter how the tortilla pizzas brown. Please use the Street Style 5″ flour tortillas, labeled “extra soft” for these Tortilla Pizzas.
- Building The Pizza: Follow the directions for the order in which the ingredients are layered. You’ll appreciate the even cooking, even heat distribution and especially that melty cheese. Sauce goes first. Cheese next. Toppings last.
- Topping Overload: Don’t try to overload those little pizzas with toppings. Less is more. These tortillas aren’t built for a lot of weight, and you don’t want toppings falling off once baked.
FAQ’s
Not all ovens cook and bake the same. Around 8 minutes should be a good rule of thumb for cooking these pizzas. However, the first time you make them, watch them closely to determine how your oven cooks them.
Yes, there are many options to purchase dairy free cheeses.
Master Pizza Recipe With Tortillas
Use this recipe below for the first flour tortilla pizza shown in this post. Then let your imagination run wild with flavor combinations.
Looking for more party appetizer ideas? I’m somewhat appetizer small plate obsessed. Take a look at my Appetizer Category for a ton of ideas.
Mini Flour Tortilla Pizzas
Ingredients
- 4 5" Mission Street Style Extra Soft Flour Tortillas
- 3 Tablespoons Olive oil or enough to coat each side of each tortilla
- ½ cup pizza sauce
- 1 cup Sharp cheddar cheese shredded
- 2 ounces Chevre crumbled
- ½ Cup Black olives sliced
- 1.2 Cup Oil packed sun-dried tomatoes sliced thin
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees
- Place tortillas on a baking sheet and use a silicone brush to brush both sides with olive oil.
- Top each tortilla with two tablespoons pizza sauce. Use the back of a spoon to spread the sauce, but not completely to the edges of the tortillas.
- Sprinkle on ¼ cup shredded cheddar cheese. Then a about a tablespoon of sun-dried tomatoes. Crumble 1 tablespoon goat cheese over each pizza and arrange some sliced black olives on top.
- Bake until the shredded cheese melts and edges of tortillas are just starting to brown, about 8 minutes. Let pizzas sit for about two minutes, cut into wedges and serve. I like to use my chef's knife to cut the pizzas.
Notes
- Tortillas: Not all flour tortillas are created equal. You may find differences in thickness and ingredients may alter how the tortilla pizzas brown. Please use the Street Style 5″ flour tortillas, labeled “extra soft” for these Tortilla Pizzas.
- Building The Pizza: Follow the directions for the order in which the ingredients are layered. You’ll appreciate the even cooking, even heat distribution and especially that melty cheese. Sauce goes first. Cheese next. Toppings last.
- Topping Overload: Don’t try to overload those little pizzas with toppings. Less is more. These tortillas aren’t built for a lot of weight, and you don’t want toppings falling off once baked.
Nutrition
How to Make A Tortilla Pizza … It’s Whats For an Appetizer
