Pizza for breakfast? No need to pinch yourself, you aren’t dreaming. This Breakfast Pizza recipe starts with refrigerated Pillsbury™ Classic Crust Pizza Crust, and is loaded with bacon, eggs, cream cheese and bell peppers to make any morning tastier.
What is breakfast pizza?
While there are plenty of different ways to prepare it, breakfast pizza is a clever spin on a family favorite food. It’s all your favorite breakfast items, piled on a pizza crust. This Breakfast Pizza recipe is super simple, using refrigerated Pillsbury™ Classic Crust Pizza Crust as its base. Then it’s piled with bacon, eggs, cream cheese and bell peppers, making it the ultimate morning meal.
How do you make breakfast pizza?
Breakfast pizza is a dish with many variations. Different toppings, different sauces, different cheeses—you can really customize it to fit your taste. But no matter how you top it, the secret to a perfectly cooked breakfast pizza is partially baking the crust before the other ingredients. Baking the crust on its own before you add the toppings will ensure the perfect consistency, every time.
More About This Recipe
- This is not a drill. With this Breakfast Pizza recipe, you no longer have to choose between your favorite meal and time of day. That’s right—pizza for every meal is now possible! It’s no surprise that pizza itself is one of the top meals worldwide. Did you know that Americans consume hundreds of pizza slices every second? “Eat This, Not That!” reported a whopping 350 slices of pizza are eaten each second in the U.S. To put that in perspective, approximately 21,000 slices of pizza are consumed every minute. This Breakfast Pizza preps in just 25 minutes and features a balance of bacon, eggs, cream cheese, bell peppers and Pillsbury Classic Crust. By combining protein, fat, carbohydrates and fiber, this pizza is a one-stop shop for kicking off nutritional goals for the day. In fact, each serving of Pillsbury pizza crust contains 5 grams of protein. Feel like changing up your pizza order? Think outside the delivery box with our extreme pizza ideas. Or, try our Sheet-Pan Tater-Topped Breakfast Pizza, next, plus all of our other breakfast pizza options.
Frequently Asked Questions
Breakfast Pizza
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 40 min
- Ingredients 9
- Servings 8
Ingredients
- 1 can (13.8 oz) refrigerated Pillsbury™ Classic Crust Pizza Crust
- 1/2 cup coarsely chopped bacon (3 slices)
- 6 eggs, beaten
- 4 oz (half of 8-oz package) cream cheese, cut into small pieces
- 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese with jalapeño peppers (8 oz)
- 1/2 cup sliced red bell pepper
- 1/4 cup thinly sliced red onion
- Fresh chopped cilantro, if desired
- Salsa, if desired
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 400°F for dark or nonstick pan (425°F for all other pans). Spray 14-inch round pizza pan with cooking spray.
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Step2Unroll dough; place on pan. Starting at center, press out dough to edge of pan. Bake about 8 minutes or until lightly browned.
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Step3Meanwhile, in 10-inch skillet, cook bacon 4 to 6 minutes over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, until just crispy. Remove bacon; drain drippings, leaving 1 teaspoon in skillet.
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Step4In same skillet, add eggs; cook 2 to 3 minutes over medium heat, stirring frequently, until firm but still moist.
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Step5Spoon and spread eggs over partially baked crust. Drop cream cheese over eggs. Top with Monterey Jack cheese, bell pepper, onion and bacon. Bake 9 to 13 minutes longer or until crust is golden brown and cheese is melted. To serve, cut into 6 wedges. Sprinkle with cilantro; serve with salsa.
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Nutrition
490
Calories
29g
Total Fat
23g
Protein
33g
Total Carbohydrate
5g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Serving
- Calories
- 490
- Calories from Fat
- 260
- Total Fat
- 29g
- 45%
- Saturated Fat
- 14g
- 69%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 245mg
- 81%
- Sodium
- 760mg
- 32%
- Potassium
- 160mg
- 5%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 33g
- 11%
- Dietary Fiber
- 2g
- 9%
- Sugars
- 5g
- Protein
- 23g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 20%
- 20%
- Vitamin C
- 8%
- 8%
- Calcium
- 35%
- 35%
- Iron
- 10%
- 10%
Exchanges:
2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 3 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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