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BLT Pizza With Garlic Aioli

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This crave-worthy BLT pizza recipe perfectly takes our BLT club sandwich and turns it into our favorite dinner – pizza! Saucy, savory, and flavorful this recipe delivers with every crispy bacon, fresh tomato, lettuce, and garlic aioli packed bite.

A sheet pan pizza topped with crispy bacon bits, chopped lettuce, diced tomato, and garlic aioli.

A big thank you to the trendy caesar salad pizza, for paving the way for lettuce on pizza. That opened the door for one of our new favorite homemade pizza recipes: BLT Pizza.

Piled high with everything you want in a classic BLT sandwich, this pizza lives up to its name. With a thick, fluffy, pizza dough, fresh, flavorful tomatoes, crispy bacon, and the crunch of lettuce you just can’t beat, you’ll be amazed at just how well this pizza replicates the classic sandwich. Oh and we can’t forget the drizzle of garlic aioli every good BLT needs.

What To Expect

  • Great for: Fun summer night dinners on the patio.
  • Ready in: 45 minutes
  • Serves: 3 to 4 people.
  • Flavor profile: Savory but still light and fresh.
  • How to make it: Shred the cheese, chop and cook the bacon, slice some tomato, chop the lettuce and stretch the dough, then assemble the pizza: dough, sauce, cheese, tomato, bacon, and salt, bake until golden, top with lettuce and garlic aioli, slice and serve.

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Why We Love This Recipe

A good BLT is super savory but fresh in every bite, a fun mix of textures, and extremely satisfying. And this BLT pizza does all that while also hitting my craving for pizza! This is one of my favorite summer night pizza recipes.

– Alex

BLT Pizza Ingredients

Can you guess what goes on our homemade BLT pizza? Yeah, you probably can. But in case you can’t here is everything you need to make it:

  • Pizza dough – Store-bought works well for this recipe, but if you are going to make some from scratch we recommend a thick crust dough. Check out the Al Taglio dough from Mastering Pizza. 
  • Crushed San Marzano tomatoes – High quality tomatoes make the sauce so much more flavorful and make sure you get tomato in every bite!
  • Shredded mozzarella cheese – Grab a block and shred it yourself for best results!
  • BLT – Bacon, romaine lettuce, and vine tomatoes make up the majority of our toppings
  • Garlic aioli – Because all BLTs deserve a little garlicky flavor and creamy aioli. Just check out our classic BLT with roasted garlic aioli if you need further proof.

How To Make A BLT Pizza

Making a BLT pizza is super simple. Once all your ingredients are prepped, all you have to do is stretch the dough and top with all that deliciousness. 

  1. Prep your ingredients – Stretch the dough, shred the cheese, chop and cook the bacon, slice some tomato, and chop the lettuce. 
  2. Build your pizza – Top the dough evenly with the crushed tomatoes, leaving about a half inch crust around the border. Next, sprinkle the cheese evenly over the pizza, and top with sliced tomatoes, chopped bacon, and a pinch of sea salt.
  3. Bake – Cook until the cheese is bubbly and the crust is golden.
  4. Finish – Once the pizza has come out of the oven, top with lettuce and drizzle with garlic aioli.
  5. Slice, serve, and enjoy!

Expert Tips

  • Always bake pizza based on the dough you are using. If you make a homemade dough, follow the baking directions for it. 
  • We always set our timers a little short of how long we expect the pizza to need. This way we can take it out if it is baking faster than expected. Every dough and every oven are different. 
  • If you’re ambitious and looking for more flavor, make your own easy roasted garlic aioli for a simple yet fun twist to this recipe. 
  • If you are making bacon fresh for this recipe, chop it into small “crumble sized” pieces before cooking. It helps the bacon cook faster and means no crumbling it afterwards.
  • For cleaner cutting, slice the pizza before topping with the shredded lettuce and garlic aioli. This will help make cutting and serving less messy!
  • Use offset pizza scissors for cutting homemade pizza. They work especially well for heavily topped pizzas like this BLT pizza! If you’ve never cut pizza with scissors before, you’re missing out. It works like a charm, and means you can cut the pizza right in the pan without scratching it.
  • If you have leftovers, drizzle them with some fresh garlic aioli after reheating.

Storing and Reheating Leftovers

BLT pizza can be kept in the fridge for up to 5 days. We like to store it in tupperware so that the toppings don’t get smushed. However, tinfoil works perfectly well for storing BLT pizza as well! 

Whenever you are ready to enjoy your leftover BLT pizza, simply heat it in the oven at 350 degrees F for 10 to 15 minutes. You can heat it with the lettuce and garlic aioli right on it. Our recommendation, however, is to give it a fresh drizzle of aioli after reheating for extra flavor and moisture.

A slice of BLT pizza drizzled with garlic aioli in a sheet pan.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

BLT pizza is a fresh and unique take on a classic homemade pizza. The light toppings add a fun flavor, but keep this pizza light. Perfect for a summer lunch or dinner. You’ll be surprised at how much this pizza really does taste like a classic BLT sandwich!

Next time you’re looking for a unique pizza recipeto try at home, give our BLT pizza a shot (and then try our butter chicken pizza next). Let us know what you think of it in the comments below! And don’t forget to rate and share.

BLT Pizza FAQs

We find the best sauce for a BLT pizza is a simple can of high quality San Marzano crushed tomatoes. This way the classic bacon, lettuce, and tomato flavors come though in every bite. There’s no need for a classic pizza sauce or Italian flavoring in this recipe.

However, we do add a drizzle of garlic aioli on top of the pizza after baking for an extra creamy sauce. We believe that all BLTs should have garlic aioli!

A BLT pizza is a BLT club sandwich (bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich) that has been turned into a pizza! It’s a delicious fusion recipe that makes for a perfect savory but light and fresh dinner for the summer.

The chopped lettuce goes on the pizza after baking. This way the lettuce stays crispy and fresh instead of getting limp and soggy in the oven.

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We hope you enjoy this recipe! When you try it out, please leave a review and a star rating in the comments below. Happy cooking! – Nicole and Alex

A sheet pan pizza topped with bacon, lettuce, tomato, and garlic aioli.

BLT Pizza with Garlic Aioli

Nicole & Alex Langdon
This crave-worthy BLT pizza recipe perfectly takes our BLT club sandwich and turns it into our favorite dinner – pizza! Saucy, savory, and flavorful this recipe delivers with every crispy bacon, fresh tomato, lettuce, and garlic aioli packed bite.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Dinner, Lunch, Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 8 slices
Calories 338 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
 
 

  • 22 ounces pizza dough store bought
  • 1 cup crushed San Marzano tomatoes
  • 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 2 medium vine tomatoes sliced
  • 10 strips cooked bacon roughly chopped
  • 1 pinch sea salt
  • 1 to 2 leaves romaine lettuce chopped
  • Garlic aioli for drizzling

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
  • Lightly flour a rectangular baking sheet for the dough. Using floured hands, stretch the dough to fill the baking sheet.
  • Top the dough evenly with the crushed tomatoes, leaving about a half inch crust around the border. Use the back of a spoon to gently spread the sauce over the dough.
  • Sprinkle the cheese evenly over the pizza, and top with sliced tomatoes, chopped bacon, and a pinch of sea salt.
  • Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, until the cheese is bubbly and the crust is golden.
  • Once the pizza has come out of the oven, top with lettuce and drizzle with garlic aioli. Slice, serve, and enjoy!
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Notes

Slicing: Optionally, you can actually slice the pizza before topping with the shredded lettuce and garlic aioli. This will help to make the cutting, and serving process less messy! We like to use these handy pizza scissors to cut through homemade pizza – it helps make super clean cuts, and lets you cut the pizza right in the pan.
Baking pizza: Oven temperatures vary enough that you’ll want to keep an eye on your pizza during the last few minutes of cooking. It’s always best to set your timer towards the earlier side, around 18 to 20 minutes, and then check every few minutes after that.
Storing and reheating leftovers: BLT pizza can be kept in the fridge for up to 5 days. We like to store it in tupperware so that the toppings don’t get smushed. However, tinfoil works perfectly well for storing BLT pizza as well! 
Reheat leftovers in the oven at 350 degrees F for 10 to 15 minutes. You can heat the pizza with the lettuce and garlic aioli right on it. Our recommendation is to give it a fresh drizzle of aioli after reheating for extra flavor and moisture.

Nutrition

Serving: 1sliceCalories: 338kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 16gFat: 12gSaturated Fat: 6gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.01gCholesterol: 32mgSodium: 954mgPotassium: 241mgFiber: 2gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 819IUVitamin C: 7mgCalcium: 157mgIron: 3mg
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As a kid, Alex was deemed the pickiest eater ever. That was at least, until he learned how to cook. While he always enjoyed cooking and eating good food growing up, the definition of good food was just really limited. Alex’s world of food quickly expanded in college as a way to get to know new friends. Now he’s constantly looking forward to finding new recipes and cuisines to try.

Alex is a mechanical engineer by degree, but a food blogger by reality. Even though engineering isn’t his day to day anymore, Alex has carried over many lessons learned from the engineering world to The Candid Cooks. With a very detail oriented, analytical mind, Alex thrives in the amount of data, science, and experimenting that comes with both cooking and running a website.

When Alex isn’t cooking or working on the blog, his favorite hobbies include playing soccer, running, hiking, reading a good book, or getting lost in a video game. Alex loves baking bread of all sorts, which is probably why pizza is one of his favorite foods to both make and eat!

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  1. 5 stars
    We love making this recipe with a thick crust dough or even on focaccia. The thicker, oily crust makes this pizza taste that much more like a BLT sandwich.

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