Brisket Pizza
Brisket Pizza is one of the best recipes to make with leftover smoked brisket.
Servings: 3 pizzas
Calories: 355kcal
Ingredients
- Pizza Dough for 3 pizzas
- cornmeal for sprinkling pizza peel and pizza stone
For the Pizza Sauce:
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 small onion diced
- 1 cup bell peppers diced
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 15 ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 tablespoon granulated garlic
- 1 tablespoon onion powder
- 1 tablespoon dried basil
- 1 tablespoon dried thyme
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- ½ teaspoon fresh ground pepper
Pizza Toppings
- 3 cups chopped smoked brisket
- 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 3 small tomatoes sliced thin
- ½ cup chopped green onions green parts only
Instructions
- Prepare the sauce: In a skillet, add olive oil, diced onion, diced bell peppers and shredded carrots, cooking over medium heat, stirring often until vegetables are softened.
- Stir in tomato sauce, brown sugar, basil, thyme, oregano, salt and pepper.
- Cook for 5 minutes, remove from heat while you prepare the dough.
- Prepare a grill fire to about 450° with a pizza stone and hickory for smoke flavor.
- Make the pizza dough, rolling pizza into about 3, 10- 12 inch circles.
- Fold the edges over to make the sides.
- Sprinkle a pizza peel or pan with cornmeal.
- Carefully place the dough over the cornmeal.
- Spread pizza sauce over dough in a thin, even layer.
- Sprinkle chopped brisket over the sauce.
- Top with mozzarella cheese.
- Next, add the thin sliced tomatoes and green onions.
- Sprinkle the pizza stone with cornmeal.
- Slide the pizza onto the stone and close the lid.
- Lower grill to about 350° and cook for about 3- 5 minutes.
- Use a large spatula to turn pizza a 1/4 turn and continue to cook with the grill closed.
- Continue to rotate pizza about every 3- 5 minutes, cooking until pizza is well browned on the bottom and the cheese starts to bubble. Total cooking time should be about 15- 20 minutes.
- Remove from grill and cool 5 minutes before slicing.
Notes
This recipe makes three 10- 12 inch thin crust pizzas. Adjust recipe as needed.
Store cooled pizza slices in a zip top bag up to 3 days.
Reheat on a baking sheet in a 350° oven or toaster oven. An air fryer is also great for reheating pizza at 350° for about 3- 5 minutes.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 355kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 26g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 79mg | Sodium: 704mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 7g