Pizza Sandwich Recipe with homemade burger, this is pizza and burger at the same time! Who knew that turning pizza into a delicious sandwich was that easy?
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❤️ Why You'll Love It
- This recipe satisfies pizza lovers and sandwich and burger enthusiasts.
- Great idea with kids, especially teenagers.
- A fun dinner, movie night, or potluck recipe that everyone loves.
- It is an easy recipe with clear instructions, but it requires time, and it would be awesome if you could recruit family to help.
- This is a pizza inside a burger inside a pizza. This recipe made me the coolest mom ever 😎 heheheh.
It's perfect for those nights when you crave pizza but don't feel like dealing with dough or preheating the oven.
📝 Ingredients
Note: This is an overview of the ingredients. You'll find the full measurements and instructions in the recipe card (printable) at the bottom of the page.
- All-purpose flour
- Yeast, baking powder and sugar
- Oregano
- Warm water
- Pizza sauce
- Pizza toppings, like pepperoni, cheese, and olives.
- Ground beef for the burger patties
- Eggs
- Worcestershire sauce
- Ketchup
- Onion and garlic
- Salt and pepper
🥄 Instructions
Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The detailed instructions are in the recipe card below.
- We'll start by making the burgers: mix everything except meat.
- Add the meat and mix well. Divide into 4.
- Form into 4 big patties with the help of an 8-inch skillet.
- Make a shallow depression in the center of each burger to prevent puffing up during cooking. Cook in the oven, on stove top, or grill. Set aside.
- Prepare the pizza mix by first combining the dry ingredients.
- Then add water and mix until you reach a sticky consistency, as shown above.
- Spread the mixture in the same 8-inch skillet, add sauce, then toppings.
- Cover tightly with foil and cook on medium-low for 5 minutes.
- Then lift the foil a bit, turn the heat down to low, and keep cooking for another 5 minutes. Congratulations, you've made the top pizza of the first burger.
- To make the bottom pizza either follow the same directions or do as I did, I skipped any toppings just added sauce and loads of cheese.
- You'll end up with 4 pizza tops and 4 bottoms with 4 huge chunky burgers.
🥣 Equipment
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👍 Amira's Tips
- Flavor the meat however you like, or use your favorite burger recipe.
- We need both yeast and baking powder to help the dough be fluffy.
- The pizza crust is fluffy and airy between bread and pancakes.
- You can cheat and make it with store-bought pizza and store-bought burgers. In my case, I wanted a thinner crust that was not as heavy as the regular pizza. So, I went for this stovetop skillet pizza recipe.
- Each burger will serve 2 people with medium appetite, so with a little math done this recipe serves 8 people. You are free, of course, to scale this recipe up or down according to your crowd.
🧺 Storage
Refrigerate— Wrap leftover sandwiches tightly with plastic wrap and place in an airtight container. Refrigerate for 3-4 days.
Freeze — This recipe freezes very well. Wrap each sandwich in plastic wrap, then foil, and place in a freezer-safe container or bag. Can be frozen for up to 3 months.
Reheat— Let the sandwich thaw in the fridge overnight if frozen. Reheat in the oven in a baking sheet covered lightly with foil until heated thoroughly.
⌛ Make Ahead
- It is a delicious, easy recipe that requires time, so planning ahead is appreciated. You can make the pizza tops and bottoms, refrigerate them, and continue with the recipe the next day.
- Or do like I always do, make the beef patties, refrigerate and finish the recipe the next day.
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Pizza Sandiwch
Ingredients
For each pizza top (this is just for one top, you'll make four):
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon dry yeast
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- ¼ teaspoon oregano
- A dash of salt
- ¼ cup +1 Tablespoon warm water. plus or minus depends on the flour
Toppings:
- 4 Tablespoon grated cheese any type you prefer.
- 3 Tablespoons pizza sauce
- 5 slices of pepperoni
- 2 black olives halved.
For each pizza bottom( this is just for one, you will make four)
- The same dough as the top part without topping just add some pizza sauce and cheese
For the Burgers (ingredients for 4 patties):
- 3lb ground beef
- 3 Large eggs
- 1 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 1-½ Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 2 Tablespoons ketchup
- 1 small onion finely chopped.
Instructions
Make the burgers:
- In a deep bowl, combine the ingredients of the burger and mix well, but do not over-mix.
- Divide mixture into 4, and shape it gently so you’ll have 4 big burgers. Set aside.
Make the pizza(s):
Make the upper pizza.
- In a bowl, combine flour, oregano, baking powder, sugar, salt, and yeast. Mix the dry ingredients well.
- Add water and mix.
- Wipe an 8-inch skillet with a kitchen towel dipped in oil and put it on medium-low heat. Pour the pizza mixture into the skillet, top with sauce, half the cheese, pepperoni, olives, and the rest of the cheese.
- Cover the skillet tightly with aluminum foil and cook for 5 minutes. Then, reduce the heat to low and make a small opening in the foil to release vapor. Keep it on low for another 5 minutes.
- Make the lower crust by following the same directions as the upper crust without all the toppings, I just added cheese.
- For the lower crust I cooked it for 4 minutes covered and another 3-4 minutes on low with the vapor release opening.
- While the pizza is cooking, shape your patties using a similar-sized skillet. Grill them or cook them in the oven or on the stovetop.
- For the assembly, put the bottom crust first, then the burger, add whatever burger topping you want, then top with the upper pizza crust.
- Cut into halves or quarters for easy handling.
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Notes
- For each burger you’ll need a top and a bottom, that’s a total of 4 tops and 4 bottoms.
- For my flour when I added ⅓ cup of warm water it was too runny and was too thick when only a ¼ cup was added. So start with a ¼ cup and try to reach the consistency as shown above by adding 1 Tablespoons water at a time.
- Toppings are your choice but do not go overboard with it.
- For sanity's sake, I did not add our usual burger toppings, i.e., lettuce, tomato, and red onion slices. These would have slipped very easily from the little hands I have at home. So feel free to add whatever burger sauces or toppings you like.
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👩🏫 My Personal Experience
I was introduced to this culinary invention in Egypt, people went crazy over it. I've never imagined myself eating something that huge :), let alone making it. But hay, we are here to push ourselves and try new stuff, new flavors and new combinations. Why not? Whether we liked it or not, it is always a win to try something new.
Of course, for my family, they all went crazy over it. My little boy is not a fan of burgers so he went for the pizza. It was a major hit in my kitchen that I think will show up at least twice in my monthly menu plan. My teen took leftovers to school and his friends said " It was crazy good".
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John / Kitchen Riffs
Fun idea! Definitely over-the-top, but wonderful looking. Thanks!
Aminah El-Dhany
Hi. I would like to suggest when you talk about meat products and especially for people who are allergic to pork products or don't eat pork products that you specify by saying beef or turkey pepperoni. Pepperoni is a pork product. People will assume that pepperoni is not pork and not read the labels. Because I am highly allergic to pork products I have to read the labels. I am also a Muslim (BTW I am married to an Egyptian).
Amira
Absolutely Aminah, people can use pork, beef or turkey pepperoni according to their likings/beliefs/allergies or whatever.I believe we will see- if it is not already out there- vegan pepperoni as well :). Thanks for your comment.