Sandwich-inspired pizza is one of America’s greatest contributions to the culinary world. It sits in the pantheon of great ideas like the Coke Freestyle machine and the craft beer revival movement.
You’ve got the greats like the cheeseburger pizza, the poor boy pizza, the chicken club pizza, beef on weck pizza, and of course, the Reuben.
We’ve also got pizza sandwiches, which are sandwiches with pizza-inspired ingredients. Not to be confused with what we have here, which is a sandwich-inspired pizza. All of which leads you to the question, what is food even?
Anyway, the point is you can put just about anything on pizza these days (see my Chickpea & Chicken pizza). So you can’t really go wrong when you take the tangy and savory ingredients of one of the finest sandwiches to grace our green earth and bake them on a pizza.
Time You’ll Need:
- 5 minutes prep
- ~15-25 minutes cooking
What You’ll Need:
- ~15 oz Pizza dough
- 1 cup shredded swiss
- 1 cup shredded mozzarella
- 1 1/2 cup of sauerkraut, drained & dried (You can use more or less depending on your tastes)
- ½ lb of pastrami or corned beef (sliced into small chunks)
- ~12 pickle slices
- ~ 3 salami slices, shredded
- Thousand Island Special Sauce
- Olive oil
- Garlic salt
Thousand Island Special Sauce:
- ~1 cup of Thousand Island Sauce (Preferred Brand)
- Hearty dash of red pepper flakes
- 1 tbsp siracha *Optional*
- 1 tbsp hot Italian peppers
- 2 tbsp minced garlic
What You’ll Do:
- Preheat oven to 375. Roll out dough into a large flat circle. Brush with olive oil and a few dashes of garlic salt. Place on a greased pizza pan and prebake the dough for about 10 minutes, till it starts to get a nice golden surface.
- In a bowl, mix all of the thousand island special sauce ingredients together.
- Spread the Thousand Island Sauce equally over the pizza dough. Add the mozzarella and swiss cheese.
- Cover with pickle slices, salami slices, corned beef, and sauerkraut.
- Give it one last dash of salt and red pepper flakes (you could also drizzle it one more time with olive oil or the extra thousand island).
- Place in oven and bake for about 15 minutes, or until cheese is melted and pizza is a nice golden brown.
- Enjoy!