These copycat Mexican Pizzas are better (and healthier) than the ones you love from Taco Bell! They’re made with ground beef, refried beans, and cheese baked inside corn tortillas.
If you love a good restaurant copycat recipe don’t miss my Copycat Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich, Applebee’s Salad, or Nothing Bundt Cake.
My husband loves Taco Bell, and it was because of him that I ever tried their Mexican Pizza. I love this copycat recipe because it uses higher quality ingredients and they’re easy to make.
Ingredients in Mexican Pizza:
- Ground beef
- Taco seasoning (homemade, or 1 packet)
- oil
- Corn tortillas
- Refried beans (store-bought or homemade)
- Red enchilada sauce (store-bought or homemade)
- shredded cheddar cheese
- roma tomato
- sliced olives
- green onions
How to make Mexican Pizza:
- Cook ground beef. Add taco seasoning and water and stir to combine.
- Cook corn tortillas. Lightly pan fry them in a little bit of oil.
- Assemble. Spoon a thin layer of enchilada sauce on top of one corn tortilla, spread refried beans on and top with a spoonful of taco meat. Sprinkle cheese over the meat and place a second corn tortilla on top. Spread thin layer of enchilada sauce on top of the tortilla and sprinkle with more cheese.
- Bake at 400 degrees for about 10 minutes, until cheese is melted and bubbly.
- Garnish with olives, tomatoes, green onion and sour cream. Cut into wedges to serve.
I think these homemade Mexican Pizzas taste best warm from the oven, but feel free to store leftovers covered in the refrigerator for up to a week. You can reheat them in the oven, air fryer, in a skillet on the stove, or in the microwave.
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Recipe
Easy Mexican Pizza
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 1 packet taco seasoning (or homemade)
- 2/3 cup water
- 1 Tablespoon oil
- 20 corn tortillas
- 2 cups refried beans (or 16 oz can refried beans)
- 1 1/4 cups red enchilada sauce (or a 10oz can red enchilada sauce)
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 Roma tomatoes , diced
- 1/2 cup sliced olives
- 3 green onions , chopped
Instructions
- Cook ground beef, crumbling it into small pieces with a wooden spoon as it cooks. Remove any grease. Add taco seasoning and water and stir to combine.
- Heat oil in a small skillet over medium-high heat. Once hot, cook corn tortillas one at a time until golden and slightly crisp on both sides, flipping half way through. Remove to a paper towel.
Assemble Pizzas:
- Spoon a thin layer of enchilada sauce on top of one corn tortilla. Spread refried beans on and top with a spoonful of taco meat.
- Sprinkle cheese over the meat and place a second corn tortilla on top.
- Spread with another thin layer of enchilada sauce and sprinkle with more cheese.
- Bake at 400 degrees F for about 10 minutes, until cheese is melted and bubbly.
- Garnish with olives, tomatoes, green onion and sour cream. Cut into wedges to serve.
Macros Recipe Adaptation
2 ½ cups roma tomatoes, 2 lbs. ground turkey.Per Serving Amount
2 Tbsp red enchilada sauce, 1.6 oz. refried beans, 3 Tbsp cheddar cheese, 2 Tbsp roma tomatoes, 0.4 oz. black olives, 2 corn tortillas, 75.5 grams meat.Macros
346kcal, Fat: 11g, Carbs: 34g, Protein: 27g (serves 10) | MFP: Mexican Pizza (TBFS Macros)Nutrition
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I originally shared this recipe July 2019. Updated April 2023.
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My shells got soft like they were never fried stucked to pan had to eat upside down wouldnt come off tray had to pick it off. Tasted same as every other recipe I made never tasted like taco bell!
I didn’t make this but I use to work at Taco Bell and the shell is a deep fried flour tortilla, not corn
That would taste good with it
Thanks
Can these Mexican tacos be frozen and reheated or made and freeze after the topping is put on then defrost add cheese and bake
Can you use tostadas instead of frying corn tortillas?
Yes, sure—they will just be crunchy, so don’t cut them like a pizza–eat them whole.
Could you use flour tortillas?
You can if you’d like.
The flower tortilla is actually the star of the show, easer to chew also.
We don’t really LOVE refried bean paste. Would mashed avocado work as well?
Sure!
I made the Mexican Pizza tonight using ground turkey. It was very good. Next time I’ll still use the air fryer to cook it all & melt the cheese, but temp on 350-375. Bc I almost overcooked the cheese! This will be a new dish and remake it ! Thank you 👍👍.
Mexican pizza I think you could garnish it with a slice of jalepino instead of black olive or both kick it up a notch
I totally improvised with what I had on hand, but appreciated the inspiration to make this really easy, filling and tasty meal. It WAS better than Taco Bell too!
Very misleading. Your recipe says COPYCAT TACOBELL when it is most definitely NOT! Not even close. Would not recommend if you are trying to duplicate the Taco Bell version.
Calm down.
Our family absolutely loves these. They are so easy to make. However, I make the enchilada sauce from scratch and for me it’s an all day thing. I like to simmer it for several hours but the process to make the pizza’s is easy and Oh So Yummy!
Can I use flour tortillas
Sure!
Hi. I’m here looking for a Taco Bell copy cat Mexican Pizza and am curious how you decided on corn tortillas vs flour like TB? Thanks!
These were excellent! Taste just like Taco Bell.
My husband has requested these 3 times in 3 weeks. His new favorite! I will have to keep the ingredients on hand now. Thanks for the recipe.
This was great!! I was looking for a recipe, because I had a lot of tortillas (both corn and flour), plus, leftover taco meat from another Taco Bell CopyKat recipe. I made my taco meat with homemade taco seasoning and my sour cream was homemade. Amazing! I can’t believe that my sour cream turned out so good. I would love to master homemade tortillas. My Rotel and Enchilada sauce were homemade and I cooked my pinto beans at 3:00pm, so that they would be ready by 6:00 pm. I just mashed them and they were great. No pan frying, as one would think. I used a Pinterest recipe for everything.
The first time I made these I cooked the tortillas in oil like the recipe states–and I HATE that smell of cooking oil in my house. So the second time I sprayed the tortillas with avocado cooking spray and baked them in the oven. Problem solved. Also, I had a heck of a time getting my beans to spread over the enchilada sauce and I didn’t think it really made a difference, so the second time I spread the beans first and then the sauce. Problem solved. I made mine vegetarian–I put the taco seasoning in the beans (about a half a package). Messy to eat but worth it. And don’t skimp on the toppings–those green onions and stuff is really what makes these great.
Great idea, thanks for sharing!
I made these tonight hoping for a recreation of that delicious crunchy Mexican pizza from TB.
I didnt get that. I even fried my tortillas longer but it seemed after baking them they went back to being soft.
Flavor was still good, husband and kids gave it a thumbs up.
I’ll make it again but will likely skip cooking the tortillas separately…which is honestly the most tedious part of this recipe.
If you have an air fryer,slide a spatula under it and air fry it for about 4 mins on 400′
So good! I used homemade enchilada sauce and refried beans.
I bet those two homemade steps took them over the top! YUM!
I made my own enchilada sauce and refried beans, too. Great addition.