BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza

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This instant game day classic recipe features the best of both worlds: pizza and BBQ. What’s not to love with this BBQ pulled pork pizza? Only one thing, there’s never enough to go around.

Move over, barbecue chicken pizza. There’s a new savory, smoky pie to contend with: BBQ pulled pork pizza.

While we love a classic BBQ chicken pizza, we had to create our own version with pork, because frankly, we just think it’s better. Compared to using chicken, our barbecue pulled pork adds a more complex flavor and better texture to the pizza, and it’s much easier to spread evenly across the whole pie. That means you get that delicious, smoky bbq flavor in every. single. bite. 

Add in some caramelized onions and jalapenos for a kick, and this BBQ pork pizza will leave even your favorite BBQ chicken pizza feeling a little bland. We do apologize… kinda. 

What This Recipe Entails

This pizza requires pulled pork and caramelized onions, so you’ll want to plan ahead and make sure you have all your ingredients ready for when you want to make pizza.

• Prep time: 30 minutes
• Cook time: 20 minutes

With all your ingredients prepped, this recipe is super easy. Much like any pizza, you just need to assemble, bake, and enjoy. The work comes in with prepping your ingredients. You can either make the caramelized onions and pulled pork ahead of time, use store-bought ingredients, or use leftovers.

BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza Ingredients and Toppings

This BBQ pizza has three main components: the base, the toppings, and the crust seasoning. Here are all the ingredients you need for each to make this BBQ pulled pork pizza:

The Base

• Pizza dough
• Sweet Baby Ray’s Barbecue Sauce (or your favorite BBQ sauce)
• Shredded mozzarella cheese
• Shredded mild cheddar cheese

You may use a store bought pizza dough or make your own from scratch. However, if you decide to make it yourself, choose a sturdy pizza dough as this pizza can get quite hefty loaded up with pulled pork. 

You’ll also want to have some all-purpose flour on hand to stretch and shape the dough.

The Toppings

• Pulled pork (we recommend making our slow cooker pulled pork recipe here)
• Caramelized onions
• More Sweet Baby Ray’s Barbecue Sauce (or again, your favorite alternative)
• Jalapeno pepper

If you’ve never made caramelized onions at home before, it’s easy! Check out our guide here on how to make perfect caramelized onions for detailed instructions and an ingredients list.

The Crust

• Butter
• Garlic powder
• Onion powder
• Sea salt

We love to add a little butter and seasoning to the outer edge of the crust before baking the pizza. This gives it just a little extra flavor and crisp, especially when using a store bought pizza dough.

How To Make BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza

This specialty BBQ pulled pork pizza comes together in about 30 minutes of prep time and 20 minutes in the oven. Here’s how to make it: 

1. First, preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Next, prepare the toppings. Add the pulled pork, caramelized onions, and barbecue sauce to a bowl and stir to combine, then set aside. Combine the mozzarella and cheddar cheeses in a bowl and toss to combine.
3. Then, stretch and shape the dough: Scoop some flour into a bowl and set it next to your working area. Lightly dust a large baking sheet with flour, spreading it around evenly. Then dust your palms with flour and stretch the dough, using both hands, until it is roughly the size of your pan. Use additional flour as necessary to prevent the dough from sticking to your hands.
4. Next, lay your stretched dough in the pan and lightly flour the bottom surface by reaching a floured hand gently underneath it, to prevent the dough from sticking to the pan.
5. Then, top the pizza: Spoon barbecue sauce onto the dough a little at a time, spreading it around with the back of the spoon until the dough is covered in a thin, even layer, with about a half inch to one inch thick border uncoated for the crust. Sprinkle the cheese evenly over the pizza, then top with the pork mixture and diced jalapenos. Finally, drizzle with additional BBQ sauce to your liking.
6. Finally, brush the crust with melted butter and sprinkle the garlic powder, onion powder, and salt evenly around the crust.
7. Bake for about 18 minutes, or until the crust is golden and the cheese is bubbly and lightly browned. Let the pizza cool for at least 2 minutes before slicing and serving.

Stretching pizza dough isn’t always easy and may take a little bit of patience. If you’re new to this, work slowly and let gravity help you out – and don’t worry if your pizza isn’t the perfect shape! Pizza of all shapes and sizes is still pizza, and it will still be delicious.

The best part of making homemade pizza is that you can customize the toppings to fit your tastes! Adjust the amount of barbecue sauce you drizzle on at the end, skip the jalapenos if you don’t like anything spicy, and add as much or as little seasoning to the crust as you’d like. These small changes won’t change the overall makeup of this pizza, and it’ll still taste incredible.

Finally, when it comes to baking the pizza, note that your oven temperature and the hydration level of the dough will impact how long it takes to cook. Keep an eye on the pizza as it bakes and use visual cues to tell when it’s done, more than relying on the time estimates in our recipe. The crust should be golden, and the cheese should be just a little bubbly and browned on top.

Serving Suggestions

We love making this BBQ pulled pork as a hearty addition to our game day spread. Alternatively, it can be used as a more “dinner-like” appetizer at any family gatherings. Here are some of our favorite appetizers to serve alongside this pizza to make a full meal. 

• Beer cheese nachos
• Air fryer buffalo cauliflower bites
• BBQ bacon cheeseburger sliders
• Soft pretzel bites and beer cheese dip
• Cheeseburger egg rolls

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Making a unique pizza recipe at home is a fun and rewarding way to change up takeout pizza night or a date night in. Pizza is a great way to get into cooking – it’s never as complicated as it looks, and you get pizza out of it. But really, by splitting the cooking up into making individual ingredients and then purely assembling the pizza to bake it, it doesn’t get much easier!

So whether you love to cook, want to get into cooking, or are simply a pizza enthusiast, this BBQ pulled pork pizza recipe is for you. Give it a try and let us know what you think in the comments. And please don’t forget to rate and share!