Let’s be honest — you’d be hard-pressed to find an occasion where pizza isn’t delicious and appropriate. Dinner? Pizza is a great entree and main meal. Lunch? It doesn’t matter if your pizza is fresh or left over from the night before. Breakfast? Absolutely. Anyone who tries to claim pizza isn’t a breakfast food has probably never had the mouthwatering experience of eating pizza — fresh or leftover, cold or hot — for breakfast first thing in the morning.

However, some people may find sauce, pepperoni and other pizza toppings a bit strong for the first meal of the day. Others may enjoy it but are also curious about what other options are out there. If you fall into either of those categories, try making one of the easy breakfast pizza recipes here! You may just discover your new favorite treat.

What Is Breakfast Pizza?

IIf you’ve never heard of breakfast pizza before, you might be a bit confused. What is a breakfast pizza, and how is it different from a regular pizza? Well, breakfast pizza is essentially a way to enjoy all your favorite breakfast foods — like bacon, sausage and scrambled eggs — on a pizza. Instead of using tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese as the base, breakfast pizzas often use egg and cheddar cheese. Other breakfast pizza sauce ideas include gravy, cheese sauce or bechamel sauce.

Where Can You Find Breakfast Pizza?

Now that you know how delicious and exciting breakfast pizza can be, you’re probably wondering where to get your hands on one. If so, you’re in luck. There are plenty of great places to get a delicious breakfast pizza:

• Restaurants: Many pizza restaurants serve breakfast pizza as well. A quick glance at a restaurant’s menu will tell you if this option is available. Restaurants are a great place to enjoy breakfast pizza, no matter the time of day.
• Grocery stores: If a restaurant isn’t an option, you may be able to find breakfast pizza in the frozen food section of your local grocery store. It will likely not be as fresh or delicious as the pizza at a restaurant, but it is still a viable option if you’re looking for a bite of pizza in the morning.
• At home: Perhaps the best way to enjoy breakfast pizza is by making it yourself in the comfort of your home, where you can add whatever toppings you like best. Homemade breakfast pizza is easy to make if you have a good recipe.

A Few Tasty Breakfast Pizza Recipes

Breakfast pizza is super easy to make at home, especially when you use premade pizza dough. We’ve listed some of the best breakfast pizza recipes below for you to try and see what all the hype is about! There’s also a recipe with instructions on how to make a quick and simple pizza dough if you prefer to make your own.

1. Crescent Roll Breakfast Pizza

   If you don’t feel like baking a pizza crust from scratch, why not skip it altogether? This handy recipe uses crescent rolls instead, and it can be ready to eat in as little as 40 minutes.

Ingredients

• 1 pound of breakfast sausage, ground
• 1 package of crescent rolls
• 1 cup of hash brown potatoes
• 1 cup of cheddar cheese, shredded
• 5 eggs
• ¼ cup of milk
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 1/8 teaspoon of pepper
• ¼ cup of Parmesan cheese, grated

Instructions

1. Brown the breakfast sausage in a skillet over medium heat. Drain the excess grease, crumble the sausage and set it aside. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Open the package of crescent rolls and separate them into their eight individual triangles. Place these triangles in an ungreased circular pizza pan, pointing toward the center so they form a circle and fill the pan. Press the edges of the crescent rolls together until they form the pizza crust. Try to seal the edges and pull up the outside edges to make a raised crust around the outer edge.
3. Sprinkle the cooked sausage evenly over the crust. Scatter the hash browns and cheddar cheese across the crust as well.
4. Thoroughly blend the milk, eggs, salt and pepper in a bowl, then pour the entire mixture over the crust. Lastly, sprinkle Parmesan cheese over the whole pizza.
5. Once the oven finishes preheating, bake the pizza until the eggs have set — usually around 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from the oven, cool and enjoy.

2. Easy Bacon Breakfast Pizza

Still not crazy about the idea of baking a crust from scratch? Here’s another easy recipe that lets you skip that part altogether. Best of all, this recipe is for the bacon lovers out there.

Ingredients

• 1 tube of refrigerated pizza dough
• 2 tablespoons of olive oil
• 6 eggs
• 2 tablespoons of water
• 3 ounces of bacon bits
• 1 cup of Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
• 1 cup of cheddar cheese, shredded

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. While it’s preheating, unroll the pizza dough from the can and press it evenly into the bottom of a greased pizza pan. For the best results, use a 15″ x 10″ x 1″ pan, and press the dough so it is ½-inch tall along the edges. Prick the dough in various places with a fork, and brush it with a tablespoon of olive oil to prevent sticking or drying out. Place the pan in the oven and bake the crust for 7 or 8 minutes.
2. As the pizza crust bakes, get out a separate bowl and mix the eggs and water. Heat your second tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Add your egg mixture and stir until it’s just cooked and no liquid remains.
3. Once the crust is out of the oven, spoon the cooked egg mixture over it. Then, sprinkle the crumbled bacon bits and the cheese over the entire pizza. Put the pizza back in the oven and bake it for 5 to 7 minutes or until the cheese is melted and gooey.
4. Remove from the oven, cool and eat.

3. Cheesy Sausage Breakfast Pizza Recipe

This recipe also involves a premade crust, but you’ll never be able to tell because the result is so tasty. It includes all the cheesy sausage-and-egg goodness you could ever want from a breakfast treat.

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon of butter
• 1 tablespoon of flour
• 1¼ cup of milk
• ¾ cup of cheddar cheese, divided
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 8 ounces of breakfast sausage, uncooked
• 4 eggs
• 1 pound of pizza dough
• 1 cup of hash brown potatoes
• 1 cup of mozzarella cheese, shredded
• 2 scallions, sliced

Instructions

1. Start by preheating your oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and spraying a baking sheet with cooking spray.
2. To make the cheese sauce that forms the base of this pizza’s toppings, melt your butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add flour and continue to cook while stirring for about a minute. Stir in 2 cups of milk and bring the mixture to a boil. Let it boil until the sauce has thickened, about 4 minutes. Take the pan off the heat and stir in ½ cup of the cheddar cheese and ¼ teaspoon of salt. Let the mixture cool.
3. Cook the sausage in a frying pan, crumbling it as you go. In a bowl, mix the eggs, the rest of the milk and the rest of the salt. Use a slotted spoon to remove the cooked sausage from the pan and set it aside. Then, pour the eggs into the sausage’s frying pan and scramble them until they’re cooked but not dry. Remove them from the stove.
4. Roll out your pizza crust onto the baking sheet. Poke holes in the dough to prevent it from getting soggy as the toppings bake. Next, spread the cheese sauce across the dough like you would with marinara sauce on an ordinary pizza.
5. Now, it’s time to add the rest of the toppings. Add the crumbled sausage, the hash brown potatoes and the scrambled eggs. Top it off with mozzarella cheese, the rest of the cheddar cheese and the scallions.
6. Put the entire thing in the oven and bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the crust is golden. Remove it from the oven, let it cool and then serve.

4. Healthy Breakfast Pizza From Scratch Recipe

Ready to try something a little more ambitious? This pizza crust is still very easy to make and only uses four ingredients. This breakfast pizza recipe is also great if you’re trying to be conscious of what you’re eating, as it’s packed with veggies and moves away from the less healthy premade crusts. It’s also quick and can be ready to eat in about 30 minutes.

Ingredients

• 1 cup of flour
• 1 ½ teaspoons of baking powder
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup of nonfat plain Greek yogurt
• 1 handful of baby spinach
• ½ cup of mozzarella cheese
• 8 sliced cherry tomatoes
• 4 eggs
• 2 strips of bacon, cooked and chopped

Instructions

1. Preheat your oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Prep a baking sheet by placing a silicone liner on it or spraying it with oil if you plan to use parchment paper.
2. To make the dough, combine flour, baking powder and salt and whisk them together in a bowl. Add the Greek yogurt to the mix and stir until the dough forms small, crumbly clumps. You must use Greek yogurt instead of regular yogurt or the dough will be too sticky. It’s also a good idea to drain any liquid that may be in the yogurt before adding it to the dough mixture.
3. Gently flour your work surface to prevent the dough from sticking. Remove the dough from the bowl, place it on the floured work surface, and begin kneading it. Keep kneading until it’s tacky but not sticky. To gauge what this should look like, check the amount of dough that sticks to your hands after you release the dough. When it no longer leaves any sticky clumps on your hands, you can stop kneading. Now, divide your dough into 4 equal lumps.
4. Flour your work surface again and dust your rolling pin with flour. Roll each of the 4 dough lumps into roughly oval shapes and place them on the baking sheet you prepared earlier. Ideally, these crusts should be about 7 or 8 inches across. These will make 4 small, personal pizzas.
5. Top your personal pizzas with spinach, mozzarella cheese and sliced cherry tomatoes, leaving an empty space in the middle of each pizza. To fill this space, crack an egg over the center of each pizza and let it spread out. Finish the pizzas by topping them all off with crumbled bacon bits.
6. Bake the pizzas until the crusts are golden brown and the eggs have set, which should take around 10 to 12 minutes. Season the pizzas with salt and pepper, let them cool and then enjoy your delicious creation.

Top your personal pizzas with spinach, mozzarella cheese and sliced cherry tomatoes, leaving an empty space in the middle of each pizza. To fill this space, crack an egg over the center of each pizza and let it spread out. Finish the pizzas by topping them all off with crumbled bacon bits.

Bake the four pizzas until the crusts are golden-brown and the eggs have set, which should take around 10 to 12 minutes. Season the pizzas with salt and pepper, let them cool and then enjoy your delicious creation.

Other Breakfast Pizza Topping Ideas

One of the best things about breakfast pizza is the tremendous amount of variety it offers. You can include virtually any toppings you like, customizing the perfect pizza topped with all your favorite breakfast foods. If you’re looking for topping ideas other than the classic cheese, eggs and bacon, try one of these:

• Meat lover: Anyone who loves breakfast meats will enjoy a meat lover’s breakfast pizza. To make a meaty pizza, generously spread gravy onto a pizza base. Then, add chopped sausage, ham and bacon and top with scrambled eggs and shredded cheese. Bake until the meat is cooked and the cheese is perfectly melted.
• Pesto veggie: When you’re craving a meal packed full of veggies but also want pizza, try making a veggie breakfast pizza! Veggie pizza is also perfect for vegetarians. A yummy combo includes pesto, cheese, mushrooms and asparagus. Make a well in the center of the toppings, crack an egg into it, and bake. Top with fresh arugula, and you’re done!
• Southwestern: Start with your choice of pizza dough or a flatbread. Then, layer black beans, corn, red onion, tomatoes, shredded cheese, scrambled eggs and cooked ground beef. After baking, garnish with avocado slices, green onions and cilantro. You can also add slices of jalapeno for a bit of heat.
• Mediterranean: For a fresh twist, make a Mediterranean-inspired breakfast pizza! Lightly oil a deep baking pan with olive oil and spread some pizza dough into it. Then, pour beaten eggs on top and add chopped spinach, cherry tomatoes, olives, red onion, goat cheese crumbles, oregano sprigs and sauteed mushrooms. Bake and enjoy.

Warming Up Leftover Pizza for Breakfast

Sometimes, you may just want to have leftover pizza for breakfast. The trick to reviving leftover pizza is how you heat it — simply placing it in the microwave can make it soggy and lifeless. If you’re short on time, put your pizza slices in the air fryer for 3 to 5 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. It’ll come out crispy and evenly heated throughout.

Another good option for reheating pizza is on the stove in a nonstick skillet or frying pan with a lid. The lid is important as it helps heat up the pizza. Start by heating up the pan on low heat. Test it’s ready by flicking water droplets into the pan — they should sizzle immediately. Then, add your pizza slices and a few droplets of water. Quickly put the lid back on and let it cook until the cheese melts. The steam heats up the pizza perfectly while the pan makes the base crispy again.

Get Your Pizza Fix at Giordano’s Today

Breakfast pizza is a delicious treat, and once you know how to make it in your own kitchen, you can enjoy it anytime you like, as often as you like. However, when it comes to good old-fashioned pizza, sometimes there’s no way to replace the best. If you’re looking for the best pizza in town, stop by Giordano’s and learn why we’re consistently topping “best pizza” lists both locally and nationally.

Although our specialty is authentic Chicago-style deep-dish pizza, we also offer thin-crust pizzas and a variety of other entrees and sides. We’re based in Chicago, but we also have locations scattered across the country, so no matter where you go, we’re never very far away.

Check out our full menu today to decide what you’ll order next time you visit us. We can also ship our famous deep-dish pizzas directly to you in frozen form so you have them on hand whenever the pizza-for-breakfast craving hits!