A couple of days ago I asked the girls what they wanted for dinner. Ana wanted pizza. Winnie, of course, wanted steak. Hmm, which one should I make? Steak? Pizza? Steak … pizza … steak … pizza … Oh, I know! I’ll make steak pizza!
Yeah, you figured that out already. I don’t seem to be very good at building suspense.
So at first I wanted to order a steak pizza. I was sure someone must offer steak as a topping. No such luck. The closest I could find was a “Philly cheesesteak pizza” that looked, frankly, a little gross.
That seems to be how everyone tries to do steak pizza, though. They shave the steak really thin, like you’re going to do a cheesesteak with it, then just throw it on top of a pizza. Problem with that is the steak will probably be done way before the crust.
Ingredients
1 pizza crust
1 cup tomato sauce (your favorite flavor)
3/4 pound shredded provolone and mozzarella
1/2 pound strip steak
Directions
Check out the previous post for how to make pizza dough. Roll it out into a 12-inch circle on an oiled pan. Add a cup of the sauce to the middle and spread it to just short of the edge of the dough.
Add nearly all the cheese. Reserve about a handful.
Dice the meat into bite-size pieces.
I should mention here that the steak I used was marked as “for beef stroganoff” at the meat market. I asked the butcher what cut it was. It’s the edges and bits and pieces that he trimmed off the strip steaks getting them ready to go in the display case. It was already cut to thin strips, so I only had to go cross-wise to get my little pieces.
Add the diced steak to the top of the pie.
Don’t crowd the steak so pieces are touching the ones around them. Then add the last of the cheese.
Preheat the oven to 500° and bake the pizza until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is bubbling, starting to brown around the edges.
Transfer the finished pizza from the pan to a cutting board. Let it cool for a couple of minutes so the cheese doesn’t all run off ass soon as you cut it.
And that’s it.
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That looks, simply, amazing. I’ve ordered one pizza where the steak was chunks of meat instead of shaved. It was actually pieces of the steak tips the shop made, it was wicked good. So of course the place closed down.
hi you have nice recipe
Please post some more recipe
Bob, that’s the same thing that happened to the place near here that made the seafood pizza: shrimp, scallops and crabmeat with a white alfredo sauce. And now they’re closed.
I made a pizza with steak once, but the steak was already cooked when I put it on. I think I really like the idea of putting it on raw – does it turn out more tender and juicy that way? It seems like it would. Anyway, that pizza looks absolutely delicious.
Stephanie, I almost cooked them before putting them on, then I realized how small the pieces would be. They were perfect as is, so pre-cooking would definitely have made them more tough and dried out. I might season them next time, though. Just a little salt and pepper before putting them on the pie.
I wasn’t too sure about the thought of a steak pizza – not a topping I would have chosen but this looks fantastic – sold!
Fiona, and I didn’t think I was selling anything.
I’m sure it was delicious–it LOOKS really good–but I would probably never make this. Pizza is one of my few breaks from meat. I prefer it meatless. We eat so damned much meat all the time that I get tired of it. I’m not as carnivorous as the other members of my household, so pizza I keep vegetarian.
But if I WERE to put flesh on my pizza, I would much prefer steak over pepperoni. Ew.
Kristin, I … umm … that is …
Wow, totally speechless here. I just can’t wrap my head around the idea of getting tired of meat.
My dad was vegetarian, then vegan, when I was growing up. Meat was not a large part of our meals. Red meat, especially, was not a frequent part of our diet. I guess I just never developed a great craving for it. And now I can’t eat too much of it. Isn’t it so perfect that I ended up in a house with literally HUNDREDS OF POUNDS of red meat in the freezer?
No, perfect would be me in a house with hundreds of pounds of meat in it.
Love the steak pizza. I don’t do meat pizza because I don’t trust the pizza shops and meat, too many bad experiences. But with your recipe. I think I’ll do pizza night once a week. Better than frozen pizzas. Cheaper than pizzerias.
Stephanie, that sucks about your bad experience. I’ll admit we take the easy way out and get take-out pizza more often than we probably should. But there are two places near here that have ready-to-go pizza for $5 each, plain cheese or pepperoni. Just walk in, drop the bill, grab the box and go. So easy. Faster than McDonalds even.
Yum. I love that you bake your pizza in such a hot oven. I really don’t know what folks think will happen in a 350F oven.
Great post, as always.
I’ve seen directions online for how to disable the lock on your self-cleaning oven so you can cook pizza at 800°. That’s wood-fired brick oven hot. I’m not quite that much of a pizza fanatic.
Drew, I’ve been reading your stuff for quite awhile now. I’ve noticed you cook small, quanity, weight, portion size, even your pizza size is small, or maybe your hand are the size of baseball gloves. you also don’t spice it up to much ie; tomatoe sauce, is not pizza sauce, sauce come two ways sweet, or not, I know you have to appeal to the taste of children, but not on everything, come on brother take this to the next level, come to my home let me cook for you. Clint
Well, I wouldn’t say baseball gloves … As for spicing it up, the girls have a couple of girls-only events coming up over the next few months. I get to cook for me. Let’s see if I remember how.
that looks… SO GOOD.
i’ve never seen homemade pizza that looked so much like take out. good job!
Kevin, I think the difference is a lot of people don’t use enough cheese. I know I used to leave sauce showing through. I have no idea why.
Drew, this looks great. Thanks for sharing it with us! I’m going to be featuring this post on my Sunday Shout Outs this week, so please check it out on Sunday morning.
Amanda, which of your blogs is that going to be on?
Hi Drew! It’ll be on Jayhawk Girl’s Kitchen. It’s the only one that I regularly post on. Thanks!
That looks so good.
Amanda, just checked it out. BTW, love the shrimp fried rice.
Food Hunter, not bad for a first try. But I did my second try this weekend. Came out much better. Well, the crust did anyway.
Another winner. I will make it for my three sons and husband, but alas, it will have to wait until they are all in California all at once. I think they may like to try steak sauce instead of pizza sauce as well. We'll see. Thanks!
I bet this would be awesome with an alfredo sauce instead of tomato.