Pizza Recipe

Serious Eats

Apr 11, 2025

Iowa Taco Pizza

The gold standard for Iowa taco pizza is a crispy, chewy crust with the nostalgic toppings of a school cafeteria taco: a refried bean base, heavily seasoned ground beef, shredded iceberg lettuce that wilts (in a good way!) into the cheese, plump chunks of fresh tomato, briny black olives straight from the can, and a roof of crumbled orange “taco chips.”