Skillet Tortilla Pizza
A tortilla crisped in a pan, sauced and broiled — thin-crust pizza in eight true minutes.
Ingredients
- 1 Flour tortillas
- 60 ml Tomato passata
- 60 g Melting cheese
- ½ tsp Dried oregano (optional)
- 1 tsp Extra-virgin olive oil (optional)
- ¼ tsp Red pepper flakes (optional)
Method
- Heat the grill (broiler) to high, with an oven rack positioned in the top slot close to the element.
- Crisp the tortilla in a dry ovenproof skillet over medium heat until the underside is spotted brown, about 2 minutes.
- Spread a thin coat of passata over the tortilla, right in the skillet.
- Scatter the cheese and oregano evenly over the sauce.
- Transfer the skillet to the top oven rack under the hot grill and broil until the cheese bubbles and spots brown, about 3 minutes.
- Drizzle the pizza with the olive oil, scatter chile flakes if you like, slice, and serve.
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About Skillet Tortilla Pizza
Skillet tortilla pizza is a fast home-cook hack rather than a traditional dish — a flour tortilla standing in for pizza dough to deliver a thin, cracker-crisp crust with almost no effort. The technique is what makes it work: the tortilla is first crisped in a dry ovenproof skillet until the underside spots brown, which drives off moisture and firms the base so it can hold sauce and cheese without going soggy. Then it goes straight under a hot broiler in the same pan.
The payoff is a genuinely thin-crust pizza — crisp at the edges, molten with bubbling cheese, brightened with oregano and a drizzle of olive oil — in well under fifteen minutes, no dough proofing or oven preheat marathon required. It is the ideal single-serving lunch or late snack, endlessly adaptable to whatever toppings you have on hand. What sets this method apart is the two-stage cook, pan then broiler, which gives you the browned, blistered top of a real oven pizza on a base that stays shatteringly crisp rather than floppy.
Skillet Tortilla Pizza: frequently asked questions
How many calories are in Skillet Tortilla Pizza?
A serving has about 393 calories — 18.1g protein, 30.2g carbs, 22.2g fat, 3.1g fiber. Figures are estimated from the ingredient amounts and will shift with your portions and brands.
Is Skillet Tortilla Pizza gluten-free?
As written, no — it contains Flour tortillas. You'd need a certified gluten-free swap for that ingredient to make it gluten-free.
Do I need every ingredient to make Skillet Tortilla Pizza?
The core ingredients are essential, but you can leave out dried oregano, extra-virgin olive oil, red pepper flakes — they're optional and mainly there for extra flavor or finish.
How many servings does Skillet Tortilla Pizza make?
This recipe makes 1 serving. In the app you can scale it up or down and the ingredient amounts adjust automatically.