Air fryer tortilla pizza is a 5-minutes start to finish tasty light lunch or snack option that tastes like a crispy version of your favorite food. Made with a flour tortilla, pizza sauce, cheese, and toppings, this is one recipe you won't soon forget.
This tortilla pizza air fryer recipe is incredibly simple and easy to follow along with making it perfect for grown-ups and kids.
You can always have quick and easy pizzas with air fryer pizza recipes like this one and our Air Fryer French Bread Pizzas, Easy Air Fryer Mini Pizzas, Air Fryer English Muffin Pizzas, and Air Fryer Pizza Rolls.
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.
- It's cheap! Making an air fryer 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.
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🥘 Ingredients
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.
Pizza sauce- Use your favorite pizza sauce or alternative pizza sauce.
Shredded cheese- You can use mozzarella cheese, shredded pizza blend, or any other cheese you think would be great here.
Olive oil- To make your air fryer basket nonstick, you may wish to brush it well with olive oil.
Optional Toppings:
You can use any of your favorite pizza toppings, but here are a few flavorful suggestions.
- Pepperoni slices
- Sliced black olives
- Sliced green onion
For specific quantities, see the recipe card below.
🍽 Equipment Needed
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🔪 Instructions
Check out how to make Air Fryer Tortilla Pizza with these simple step-by-step 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.
🧾 Substitutions
Pizza sauce. If you do not have any pizza sauce on hand you can use pasta marinara sauce, BBQ sauce, 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.
🍴 Recipe Tips
Order matters
Please make sure that any pizza toppings you choose to use are nicely nestled underneath the cheese. This will help to prevent them from flying off.
Check mid-cook
Check on your tortilla pizza in the air fryer about halfway through the cooking. Depending on the size or weight of your pizza it may be trying to stand up and curl. If it does this, simply place a metal trivet or small wire baking rack over the top of the pizza to hold it down.
Air fryers work by circulating air which means hot air from the heating coils reaches your food from the top, sides, and bottoms so if your pizza is lightweight, it will lift from the force of the air underneath.
You can assemble in the basket
Depending on the number of toppings you want on your pizza you may find that it's actually easier to assemble the pizza while the tortilla is in the air fryer basket instead of preparing on a cutting board and transferring to the basket.
🍳Reheating
You can reheat leftover pizzas in the air fryer at 400 degrees F for about 1 minute until the cheese is warmed.
💭 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 Flour tortilla ($0.25)
- 2 Tablespoons Pizza sauce ($0.05)
- ¼ cup Mozzarella cheese, shredded ($0.23)
- 1 Tablespoon Olive oil ($0.13)
Optional Toppings
- Pepperoni slices
- Sliced black olives
- Sliced green onion
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
Substitutions
- Pizza sauce. If you do not have any pizza sauce on hand you can use pasta marinara sauce, BBQ sauce, 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.
Recipe Tips
- Please make sure that any pizza toppings you choose to use are nicely nestled underneath the cheese. This will help to prevent them from flying off.
- Check on your tortilla pizza in the air fryer about halfway through the cooking. Depending on the size or weight of your pizza it may be trying to stand up and curl. If it does this, simply place a metal trivet or small wire baking rack over the top of the pizza to hold it down.
- Air fryers work by circulating air which means hot air from the heating coils reaches your food from the top, sides, and bottoms so if your pizza is lightweight it will lift from the force of the air underneath.
- Depending on the number of toppings you want on your pizza you may find that it's actually easier to assemble the pizza while the tortilla is in the air fryer basket instead of preparing on a cutting board and transferring to the basket.
- You can reheat leftover pizzas in the air fryer at 400 degrees F for about 1 minute until the cheese is warmed.
- 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.
Freezing Tortilla Pizzas for Later
- 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.
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