Air fryer tortilla pizza is a quick 5-minute recipe from start to finish, offering a delightful and crispy twist on your favorite dish. Crafted using a flour tortilla as the base, this is a recipe you'll remember for its incredible taste and convenience.
Recipe: $1.04 | Per Serving: $1.04 | Servings: 1
This tortilla pizza air fryer recipe is incredibly simple and easy to follow, making it perfect for both grown-ups and kids. The best part is that it's highly customizable.
You can personalize your pizza by adding your favorite toppings, whether it's pepperoni, bell peppers, olives, or any other ingredient you love.
With pizza recipes like this one, as well as our French Bread Pepperoni Pizza, Christmas Tree Fruit Pizza, and Air Fryer Pizza Rolls, you'll always have the option for quick and easy homemade pizzas that suit your unique taste.
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🍯 Why This Recipe Works
- Making pizzas is as fun as eating them. Set up all of the toppings in little bowls and let everyone design their own pizza creations and masterpieces.
- The recipe is quick. With store-bought tortillas and sauce, this recipe comes together very quickly. Within minutes you can have a wonderful pizza lunch on your plate. They're about as easy to make as our Air Fryer English Muffin Pizzas
- It's cheap! Making a tortilla pizza is such a fun and frugal way to get a delicious taste out of plain tortillas. You and your family are sure to enjoy this recipe for years to come.
🥘 Ingredients
Ingredient Notes:
Flour tortilla- You will need standard sized flour tortillas (or at least ones that can fit inside the air fryer) to be the "crust" of your pizzas. If you still have tortillas on hand, try our Tortilla French Toast, Air Fryer Cinnamon Sugar Tortilla Chips, and Air Fryer Tortilla Chips.
Shredded cheese- You can use mozzarella cheese, shredded pizza blend, or any other cheese you think would be great here.
Optional Toppings- Use your favorite pizza toppings; some flavorful suggestions include pepperoni slices, sliced black olives, and sliced green onion.
For specific ingredients and measurements, please see the recipe card below.
🧾 Substitutions
Pizza sauce. If you do not have any pizza sauce on hand you can use pasta marinara sauce, Easy Homemade Barbecue Sauce, Cream Cheese Alfredo sauce, or even pesto as the sauce on your tortilla pizza.
Cheese. I like to use shredded mozzarella cheese but you can use pizza blend, Italian blend, or make a blend of various cheeses based on what you have on hand.
Tortillas. Flour tortillas do work best for this recipe but you can swap them out low carb, spinach, or even gluten-free varieties. I do not recommend corn tortillas for this recipe as they will not hold up as well under the weight of the pizza toppings.
📖 Stuffed Crust Tortilla Pizza Variation
Cheesy Twist: If you're a fan of all things cheesy, you'll adore this variation! Lay 4 (unwrapped) mozzarella string cheese sticks in a square on top of your tortilla.
Assembly: Roll and crimp the tortilla around the mozzarella cheese to create a deep square. Fill the pocket with sauce, toppings, and shredded cheese.
Cooking: Carefully place the stuffed crust tortilla pizza into the air fryer and cook as directed.
🔪 Instructions for Air Fryer Tortilla Pizza
Step 1: Brush the basket of the air fryer with olive oil using a pastry brush. This will help to keep your pizza from sticking.
Step 2: Take one flour tortilla and spread the pizza sauce out and around the pizza, leaving a ½ inch space around the edges untouched.
Step 3: Add your pizza toppings as desired. Top with cheese last. This will help to hold them down because the toppings can fly off while cooking.
Step 4: Place the pizza into the basket of the air fryer and cook at 400 degrees F for 3-4 minutes or until the cheese is melted.
Step 5: Remove the pizza using a spatula and place it onto a serving platter or cutting board.
Step 6: Cut into triangle shaped slices before serving warm.
🍴 Recipe Tips
- Topping Placement: Ensure that any pizza toppings are placed beneath the cheese to prevent them from flying off during cooking.
- Mid-Cook Check: Around halfway through cooking, check the tortilla pizza. If it starts to curl up, place a metal trivet or wire baking rack on top to hold it down against the force of the circulating air.
- Assembly in Basket: Depending on your preferred toppings, consider assembling the pizza directly in the air fryer basket for easier preparation and transfer.
🍳Reheating
You can reheat leftover pizzas in the air fryer at 400 degrees F for about 1 minute until the cheese is warmed.
💭 Recipe FAQs
Tortilla pizzas make great meal prep recipes so you can make a large batch of these pizzas and freeze them for later. Simply assemble your pizzas and place them into an airtight container with a layer of parchment paper between them. You can cook them from frozen at 400 degrees F for about 4 to 5 minutes.
If the pizzas don't stack well due to toppings and thickness variations, you can assemble them and freeze them flat on a baking sheet for an hour before transferring them to the Ziploc bag or container.
If you use too many juicy toppings or too much sauce then you will end up with a soggy tortilla pizza. Due to the thickness of the tortillas being very thin, you will need a very thin amount of pizza sauce. A little goes a long way.
You can get your tortilla pizza even crispier by heating the tortilla with a light brushing of olive oil at 400 degrees F for 1 minute prior to adding the sauce and toppings. You will need a trivet to place over the top of the tortilla to prevent it from flying around in the basket or curling.
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📖 Recipe
Air Fryer Tortilla Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon olive oil ($0.14)
- 1 (8 inch) flour tortillas ($0.28)
- 2 Tablespoons pizza sauce ($0.12)
- ¼ cup Mozzarella cheese, shredded ($0.50)
Optional Toppings
- pepperoni slices
- black olives, sliced
- green onion, sliced
Instructions
- Brush the basket of the air fryer with olive oil using a pastry brush. This will help to keep your pizza from sticking.
- Take one flour tortilla and spread the pizza sauce out and around the pizza, leaving a ½ inch space around the edges untouched.
- Add your pizza toppings as desired. Top with cheese last. This will help to hold them down because the toppings can fly off while cooking.
- Place the pizza into the basket of the air fryer and cook at 400 degrees F for 3-4 minutes or until the cheese is melted.
- Remove the pizza using a spatula and place it onto a serving platter or cutting board.
- Cut into triangle shaped slices before serving warm.
Notes
- Customization: Choose sauce and cheese, use flour tortillas (avoid corn), and nestle toppings under cheese.
- Cooking Tips: Check pizza halfway; use trivet if needed. Assemble directly in air fryer. Reheat leftover pizzas at 400°F for 1 minute and apply thin sauce layer to avoid sogginess.
- Freezing: Freeze pizzas with parchment between, and cook frozen at 400°F for 4-5 minutes. For uneven pizzas, freeze flat for an hour before storing.
- Extra Crispy Pizza: Brush tortilla with olive oil, heat at 400°F for 1 minute, and use trivet to prevent curling.
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