How to make a pizza for breakfast

If the student version of you thought pepperoni pizza with a bottle of cherry cola would be a perfect breakfast or brunch, then the adult version of you will almost certainly enjoy breakfast pizza. For one thing, a breakfast pizza brings everything you love about breakfast and brunch—bacon, cheese-covered eggs, toast—to a triangular, handheld, edible serving platter. Another benefit of breakfast pizza is that it’s much fresher (and therefore tastier) than your pepperoni pie from the day before.

Luckily, switching to pizza from dinner to brunch is an easy transition. All you need is the right ingredients and maybe a change in your attitude. As Nicole Bean, owner and operator of Pizaro’s Pizza Napoletana in Houston, Texas, told Chowhound exclusively, “If you really want to spice up a breakfast pizza, I highly recommend trying scrambled eggs with crème fraîche and caviar with hash brown bits.”

In this case, the change in mindset comes from Bean’s willingness to combine typical breakfast dishes like scrambled eggs with classic brunch dishes like caviar and crème fraîche (basically a creamier, more refined version of sour cream) in one place. In addition, the breakfast version of this meal offers the opportunity to experiment with different sauces. While marinara tends to dominate lunch or dinner pizza, white sauces like béchamel sauce or Alfredo cheese sauce complement dishes like bacon and eggs, various sausages and, of course, potatoes. It’s not that you can’t add red sauce to your breakfast pizza. It’s just that with this type of pie you can enjoy some unexpected pizza toppings that can take your meal to the next level.

Since brunch is a combination of breakfast and lunch, you can serve breakfast and lunch on the same table—or, for our purposes, the same pizza. On the breakfast side there are eggs, eggs and more eggs. You can use scrambled eggs to cover a large area of ​​the cake because the eggs spread as they cook. A fried egg or a baked egg, on the other hand, gives you a big flavor boost when you bite into the yolk. If you crack a few eggs over the remaining topping, you’ll get the eggy flavor in every bite.

Lunch meat also gets its time in the sun (or shall we say sunny side up?). Oven-cooked bacon alongside eggs or potatoes is sure to provide that smoky flavor you associate with a breakfast full of pork. Other meats such as chorizo ​​sausage, sliced ​​or pulled pork, steak cuts, chicken or smoked salmon or salmon feel equally at home here. Many of these meats taste exceptionally good with cheeses such as Feta, Cheddar, American or Pepper Jack.

Don’t forget that the best pizzas often include a variety of vegetables too. Spinach, mushrooms, chopped onions, tomato slices, peppers of any color, olives, broccoli, red cabbage, potatoes, and corn (both sweet and white) add lots of subtle flavors to a brunch pizza without making the meal too heavy.

While some people only seem to like breakfast and brunch when the meals have an umami twist, there are others who rave about the regular continental breakfast. Foods such as croissants, sweet rolls, cookies, jam, butter flavored with honey or cinnamon, and an abundance of seasonal fruits dominate these meals.

“You can also add really fun ingredients like brie jams like apricots or figs, which go really well with ingredients like bacon and honey/syrup,” Nicole Bean told Chowhound. Their flavor selection gives breakfast pizza lovers solid options to combine the sweet ingredients like jam with the umami power of bacon and eggs. More specifically, if you enjoy eating these foods together, you don’t have to be afraid to put them on the same pizza. Almost anything is possible under the brunch umbrella.

Finally, remember that since it’s brunch, you can serve several different types of pizza. For example, try one with bacon, eggs, cheese and mushrooms with lots of white sauce or even your homemade white sauce and then complement the savory pie with a few sweet pizzas. You might even want to make some dessert pizzas. S’mores, raspberry almond, apple crisp and more are among the sweet pizza flavors that deserve to appear on your brunch table. And remember: Since anything goes at this meal, it’s perfectly acceptable to eat dessert (or dessert pizza) first.