Egg & Bacon Breakfast Pizza
While pizza is traditionally confined to lunch or dinner, this pizza is perfect to serve for breakfast. With a homemade pizza dough, scrambled eggs, bacon, white cheese sauce, and more cheese on top, it’s everything desirable for a morning recipe. This is a Midwestern staple that’s super popular, and it’s sure to be in your home once you make it!
Servings 8 servings
Calories 486kcal
Ingredients
For the dough
- 1 cup warm water
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 2 tsp granulated sugar
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 ¼ tsp (1 pkg) instant yeast
For the white sauce
- 2 tbsp bacon grease
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 tbsp all-purpose flour
- 1 cup whole milk
- ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ½ cup Monterey Jack cheese shredded
For the eggs
- 4 large eggs
- ¼ cup whole-fat Greek yogurt
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper
For the toppings
- ½ lb cooked bacon chopped
- 3 scallions chopped
- 1 ½ cups Monterey Jack cheese shredded
Instructions
For the dough
- In a large bowl, combine the warm water, salt, sugar, and olive oil. Stir to dissolve the salt and sugar. Add the flour and the yeast. Stir until a shaggy dough forms.
- Sprinkle the counter with flour and knead the dough until it is smooth, 5-8 minutes. Place the dough in an oiled bowl and allow it to rise until doubled, 45-60 minutes.
For the white sauce
- Cook the bacon until it is well-browned on both sides. Once cooked, remove the bacon and set it on paper towels. Pour the bacon grease into a small bowl. Wipe the skillet with a paper towel and measure 2 tbsp of bacon grease back into the skillet. Heat the grease over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for 30 seconds. Add the flour and cook until the flour is bubbling and sticking together in clumps.
- Add the milk a few tbsp at a time, stirring with each addition to form a smooth sauce.
- Once all the milk is added, stir in the salt and black pepper and bring the mixture to a simmer. Simmer for 30 seconds to one minute until the milk is thick. Over low heat, add the cheese and stir it until it is melted. Remove the skillet from the heat and pour the sauce into a bowl. Set it aside.
For the eggs
- In a medium bowl, whisk the eggs, yogurt, salt, and pepper until they are smooth.
- Melt one tbsp of butter in a skillet over medium-low heat. Once melted, add the prepared eggs and cook slowly until they are just cooked, 2-3 minutes. Once the eggs are cooked, remove them from the heat.
For the pizza
- Once the dough has risen, press it to a 14-inch circle on an oiled pizza pan or baking dish. If the dough pulls back, allow it to rest for 5 minutes. Spread the prepared cheese sauce on the crust, leaving a ½-inch edge around the pizza. Evenly top the sauce with the prepared eggs. Sprinkle on chopped bacon, cheese, and scallions.
- Place the pizza in the preheated 375°F oven. Bake until the crust is golden and the cheese is melted, 20-25 minutes. Once baked, remove the pizza from the oven and cool for 5 minutes before slicing.
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Notes
- When preparing the dough, make sure to use warm water. The warmth will spur the yeast to wake up quicker.
- The dough will be ready to rise after kneading when it sticks to the work surface just slightly but pulls away easily. The dough should have a bit of tackiness but not so much that it clings to the work surface when kneaded.
- When cooking the white sauce, it’s important to let the flour cook for the prescribed amount of time. The heat will remove the raw flour flavor and create a delicious, thick sauce. Additionally, add the milk slowly so that no clumps form. If all of the milk is added at once, the mixture of the flour and milk can seize up and will not have the time it needs to create the desired texture.
- The key to procuring fluffy scrambled eggs is cooking them at a low temperature. When eggs are watery, the likely culprit is that they were cooked at too high of heat too quickly.
- When pressing out the pizza dough, if it bounces back or won’t seem to stay in place, let it rest for about five minutes. Then try pressing it out again.
Nutrition
Serving: 1serving | Calories: 486kcal
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