Beef, Bacon & Blue Cheese Pizza

Pizza night is one of my favorite nights. There is just something about eating a slice of pizza -take-out, delivery, homemade, elevated or barely above cardboard – even bad pizza is still pretty good pizza. And this pizza is anything but bad! In fact Beef, Bacon & Blue Cheese Pizza is probably some of my best pizza making work!

The idea came from my most recent burger creation – the Bacon & Blue Cheese Burger. I love the flavor combination of bacon and blue cheese and wanted to find another way to enjoy them in a meal. I wanted to make it similar but not the same same, so I pulled in a few other flavors to chance the end taste. Parmesan, mozzarella and red onion lead this pizza to victory.

This recipe makes 2 pizzas that can be cut into six or eight decent sized slices. You can use the recipe I added in below the pizza recipe. You can also use whatever your favorite version of pizza dough is – store-bought, fresh made, refrigerated, or pre-cooked – for this pizza as the crust doesn’t play a huge roll past being the vessel. That said, I think I might make it with a sourdough pizza dough next time.

You can use your favorite blue cheese dressing for the cream sauce. I would suggest using one that has actual chunks of blue cheese in it (usually found in the fresh refrigerator section of the produce section). This will add more blue cheese flavor to the sauce which really connects it to the crumbles. If you cannot find one that has crumbles in it, add about a tablespoon of fresh crumbles to the sauce.

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Beef, Bacon & Blue Cheese Pizza

A creamy cheesy sauce topped with ground beef, bacon, blue cheese, red onions and mozzarella!

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword bacon, blue cheese, cheese sauce, cream sauce, ground beef, mozzarella, pizza, red onion, Sauce

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 2 pizzas

Ingredients

• 2 Pizza Dough see recipe below or use refrigerator dough
• 1 lb Ground Beef
• 3 Garlic Cloves minced
• 1 tbsp Dried Minced Onion
• 1 tsp Parsley
• 1 tsp Salt
• 1 tsp Black Pepper
• 8 slices Bacon cut into ½-inch pieces
• ½ Red Onion thinly sliced
• 8 oz Blue Cheese Crumbles
• 1 cup Mozzarella Cheese shredded

For the Cream Sauce

• 3 tbsp Butter
• 1 tsp Garlic Powder
• 3 tbsp Flour
• 1 cup Milk
• 1 cup Heavy Cream
• 8 oz Parmesan Cheese shredded
• ½ cup Blue Cheese Dressing

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 400degF. If using recipe for pizza dough below, prepare it up to the 4th step. If using refrigerator dough, spread each out on a parchment paper covered baking sheet.
• In a frying pan over medium high heat, add bacon. Cook until crispy and remove to a paper towel covered plate. Do NOT discard grease.
• Add ground beef, garlic, minced onions, salt, pepper and parsley to frying pan. Cook and crumble until no longer pink. Set aside.
• Place pizza crusts in oven for 8 minutes and then remove.
• In a sauce pan over medium heat, add butter and garlic powder. Once melted whisk in flour. Cook for 2 minutes then whisk in milk. Cook for 2 minutes then whisk in heavy cream. Cook for 2 minutes then stir in parmesan cheese and blue cheese dressing. Stir until cheese is fully incorporated.
• Build the pizzas by placing half of each component on each pizza, in this order: Cheese sauce, ground beef, bacon, red onion, blue cheese crumbles, and mozzarella cheese. Place in oven and cook for 15 minutes.