This cheeseburger pizza is always the star of the show at our pizza nights! Made with an easy homemade pizza dough, and topped with caramelized onions, ground beef, cheese, then loads of pickles and burger sauce. This truly is a gooey cheeseburger in pizza form!
Hi hi! I am just popping in to share this cheeseburger pizza recipe with you! We have been making this for years and now I have finally perfected my homemade pizza dough recipe, I can share all my pizza recipes with you!
This really does taste like a cheeseburger and a pizza had a baby. It is super simple to make, and I promise it will blow everyone's minds at how good it is.
I love mixing up the flavour combinations when I make pizzas and this one will be perfect to add into your rotation! If I have extra dough left after making pizzas and ask my family which one they want a repeat of, they almost always choose this cheeseburger pizza.
This cheeseburger pizza recipe uses my homemade pizza dough recipe - there are notes and tips and tricks on how to make the dough and detailed shaping instructions in the post. My dough recipe makes enough for two pizzas, this cheeseburger pizza has the topping quantities for one pizza.
Cheeseburger Pizza Toppings
The best thing about making pizza is that you can play around with the toppings (I will say this feels a little weird to write pizza recipes which are so flexible as a baking blogger who usually writes fairly rigid recipes!) Here is what I use to top my cheeseburger pizza, but please feel free to add or remove things as you see fit!
- Caramelized onions: I make my own homemade caramelized onions in bulk and keep them in the freezer in 100g bags (which is enough for two cheeseburger pizzas). They are super easy and you can make them on the stovetop or in the slow cooker. However if I don't have them on hand, a jar of onion relish or caramelized onion relish gets the job done perfectly - just spread a little over the base of the pizza dough rather than using the onions.
- Ground beef / mince. Obviously necessary on a cheeseburger pizza. I brown it off ahead of time in a skillet and then just drain it on a paper towel and lightly season with salt. I use about 150g of meat per pizza, but you can use more or less depending on what you feel like. I have also done an epic vegetarian cheeseburger pizza by cutting up mushrooms super small and browning them off and using them in the place of the ground beef.
- Cheese. I used to use pre-shredded mozzarella but it often has a weird starch coating on it, and the blocks of low moisture mozzarella last for a really long time unopened in the fridge, so I use those and shred it as I need it for pizza. I use about 75g per pizza but honestly, I'm not here to tell you how much or how little cheese to use.
- Pickles. A burger essential, IMO. I use bread and butter pickles, just use whatever you would usually use on a burger (if you like them)
- Burger sauce. I buy mine from the supermarket here, but if you make your own that works too.
Options for making pizza at home
I have three options outlined in my recipe post - you can make this in your pizza oven, at home on a baking steel, or on a sheet pan. Both the pizza oven and the baking steel option are great, the sheet pan will still work, but if you are planning on making pizza at home, a pizza steel or a pizza stone will really be your friend here, I prefer a steel as it is super durable and much easier to aim for a rectangle in the oven when you are putting it off your peel than a circular stone!
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Answers to your baking questions
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Loaded Cheeseburger Pizza
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 6 servings 1x
- Category: Pizza
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Description
This cheeseburger pizza is always the star of the show at our pizza nights! Made with an easy homemade pizza dough, and topped with caramelized onions, ground beef, cheese, then loads of pickles and burger sauce. This truly is a cheeseburger in pizza form!
Ingredients
Pizza Dough
- One ball of homemade pizza dough, ready to use, or dough of your choice
- Semolina flour or regular flour for shaping (semolina is my preference)
Cheeseburger Toppings
- 50g caramelized onions (my caramelized onion recipe), or onion relish
- 75g (or however much you want to use) shredded low-moisture mozzarella
- 150g ground beef (beef mince), cooked in a skillet until well browned then drained and seasoned with salt, and cooled
- Pickles to finish
- Burger Sauce to finish
Instructions
There are a few methods to bake the pizza - I use a pizza oven but there are notes in the recipe on a few options. Please make sure you read the recipe all the way through first as the oven needs to preheat for quite a while if you are using an at home oven. Make sure that your oven is preheated and ready to go before you assemble your pizza. I recommend you read my homemade pizza dough post for detailed notes on shaping the dough.
SHAPING DOUGH
- Once the dough is ready to use, place some semolina flour onto a dinner plate or sheet pan. Carefully remove one piece of dough from the container you have risen it in, and place it directly onto the semolina, flipping it so that both sides are covered.
- Transfer the dough to the work surface, adding more semolina if needed. Using your fingers, press in a circle around the edge of the pizza, leaving about a 1-2cm edge. Press down the middle of the ball of dough to gently flatten it off.
- There are lots of ways to stretch pizza but I like to use what I call the 'steering wheel' method - place one hand on the middle of the dough and using the other hand, gently grab the edge of the dough and stretch it out slightly, then turn the dough about 45°. Repeat, going around the edge of the dough 2-3 times until it has stretched out nicely.
- If you would like to, you can carefully pick the dough up and holding it by the edges, move your hands around the sides to use gravity to help stretch the dough further. You can also place it over the backs of your hands to gently stretch it out. This takes practice and you will get better at it with the more pizza that you make.
- You are aiming for a circle of dough that is 12-13" (30-33cm) in diameter, and has a slightly thicker edge.
- Transfer the pizza dough to your pizza peel, giving it a little wiggle to make sure that there are no stuck spots. As you top the pizza, give it a little wiggle every now and then too to ensure that it is not stuck to the peel.
TOPPING THE PIZZA
- Once the pizza is on the peel, give it a little shimmy to make sure that it is not stuck - If it feels sticky, add some more semolina flour. I like to shimmy it between every topping that is added to make sure that the launch goes well.
- Add the caramelized onions and spread as evenly as you can around the pizza base. Top with the shredded mozzarella, followed by the cooked ground beef.
- Bake the pizza following one of the methods below.
- Once the pizza is baked, remove from the oven and top with pickles and drizzle with burger sauce. Slice and serve.
TO BAKE USING A PIZZA OVEN
- Top the pizza as desired. Transfer using the pizza peel to the pizza oven and bake according to the manufacturer's instructions - my dough usually takes about 2-3 minutes in a gas fired oven, or 4 minutes in an electric pizza oven. Again, this will take some practice. Once baked, finish as desired.
TO BAKE USING A BAKING STEEL
- An hour before you want to bake the pizza, place a baking steel or pizza stone into the oven. I prefer to use a baking steel as they are much more durable. Preheat the oven to 500°f / 260°c or as high as your oven will go if it will not reach that temperature.
- Shape and top the pizza as instructed in the shaping section. Using the peel (or if you don't have a peel, the back of a sheet pan will work but you have to be very careful), wiggle the peel to transfer the pizza to the baking steel.
- Bake the pizza for about 5-6 minutes until bubbly and golden brown, and you are happy with the colouring of the crust on the bottom of the pizza. Use the peel to remove the pizza from the oven.
- If you are baking another pizza, make sure that you give the steel enough time to heat up again before cooking your next pizza.
TO BAKE IN THE OVEN.
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- About an hour before you are going to bake your pizza, preheat the oven to 500°f / 260°c or however high your oven will go.
- Shape and top the pizza as instructed in the shaping section. You can top the pizza on the sheet pan you are going to bake it on, either directly on the baking sheet or on some parchment paper. While you are shaping the pizza, if you have one, preheat a second baking sheet that stacks with the one with the pizza on it in the oven for about 10 minutes - this helps with the initial burst of heat.
- Top the pizza as desired, then transfer to the oven. Bake for about 13-15 minutes, until the crust is brown and the cheese and toppings are bubbly.
Notes
This recipe makes one cheeseburger pizza. My pizza dough recipe makes enough dough for two pizzas (or scale as needed)
All my pizza making equipment is linked in my pizza stuff products page.
I find that it works best to buy blocks of mozzarella and shred them myself as needed rather than buying pre-shredded cheese, but use whatever you like and what you are comfortable using. I usually use roughly 75g of cheese per pizza, but cheese should always be measured with the heart.
I buy burger sauce to use for this Pizza as my husband is hooked on it and we go through a lot - I use the watties brand which is what I can get in NZ. Use whatever you have access to!
This pizza reheats super well - I usually just do it in the toaster oven for a few minutes on about 180°c / 350°c fan bake / convection, or you could use the air fryer. Check every few minutes until it is your desired level of warm!
Comments
caribou says
I bought an Ooni volt and the Halo mixer based on your recommendation.
They have become my most favorite kitchen tools. This pizza is by far my favorite.