Pepperoni Pizza Caesar Wrap

This is the best of all the worlds – caesar salad + pepperoni pizza all formed into a wrap!

I saw this on TikTok but it was shaped like a quesadilla and I thought it would be better this way like a wrap – I cooked it like a quesadilla or like a skillet pizza. After I let it cool briefly, it gets topped with the caesar salad, then I folded it up like a wrap. It was so good.

Pepperoni Pizza Caesar Wrap
Ingredients: (serves 2)
2 large flour tortillas
1/2 cup tomato sauce
3/4 cup shredded mozzarella
pepperoni
sprinkle of chili flakes and/or Italian seasoning (optional)
1 small head of romaine lettuce
3 tablespoons Caesar dressing
croutons (optional)
1 teaspoon parmesan cheese

Directions:
Preheat a skillet to medium heat and spray with nonstick spray. Warm the tortillas on the pan, topping with sauce then cheese then pepperoni on each.
Remove from the heat when melty and cooked through but not super crisp – it needs to be pliable and mostly soft. Sprinkle with chili flakes and seasoning, if desired.

Let it cool for ~2-3 minutes.
Chop the romaine and toss in the dressing. Season with cracked pepper and parmesan.
Pour the salad onto the centers of the quesadilla pizzas.

Wrap them up by folding the bottom up 1/3 of the way, and then roll/fold the left to right.
Enjoy!

This a nice zing from the pepperoni and cool creaminess from the salad – it has to be cool enough to not immediately wilt the lettuce. I loved this and appreciated it as a use for some small amounts of sauce and cheese! This is an excellent speedy way to have the flavors of pizza or to have salad and pizza on the go!

Hail Caesar, Chicken Caesar Salad Pizza

{originally published in 2012 and updated in 2025}

California Pizza Kitchen introduced me to pizza on a salad and I’ve loved it since my high school days. This pizza was overdue for a refresh – even if it hasn’t been quite as long as it has been since high school!

Chicken Caesar Salad Pizza
Ingredients:

1 pizza dough ball
¼ cup tomato sauce/crushed tomatoes
Caesar Salad (3 tablespoons + 1/4 cup)
1 cup mozzarella shredded
1-2 chicken breast (marinated in Caesar dressing), grilled and sliced
1 heart of romaine
¼ cup Parmesan cheese

Directions:
Preheat pizza oven/oven to 400 degrees.
Stretch pizza dough out onto a floured baking pan or pizza stone and top with tomatoes and a drizzle of caesar dressing. Sprinkle cheese on and chicken.

Cook the pizza until crisp and melty – our pizza oven is 1-2 minutes.
Let sit a minute before slicing.

Chop the lettuce and toss with dressing, parmesan, and pepper.
Top the pizza with salad.
Enjoy!

This is the best of both worlds. Cheesy pizza with juicy chicken and then cool crisp lettuce.

Bfast Pizza with Everything Bagel Crust

Breakfast in any form is the best. We love bacon on pizza so I leaned into the pizza vibe finishing it with hard boiled egg. The crust got brushed with butter and everything bagel seasoning.

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Bfast Pizza with Everything Bagel Crust
Ingredients:

pizza dough
~3-4 tablespoons tomato sauc
~1/2 cup crumbled bacon
~1 cup mozzarella
2 tablespoons butter, melted
~3 teaspoons Everything Bagel Seasoning
2 eggs, hard boiled

Directions:
Preheat the pizza oven or pizza stone.
Top the dough with sauce, bacon, and cheese.

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Cook through until crust crisps and cheese melts.
While the pizza cooks, melt the butter and then peal and chop the eggs.
Out of the oven, immediately brush with melted butter and sprinkle on the everything bagel seasoning.
Sprinkle on the egg and some salt & pepper.

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This was a fun pizza. The eggs aren’t all that attached but I wanted to give them a go. All the flavors are there. A personal pizza with a runny yolk would be good too – we just always have hardboiled eggs around.

Portland Pie Pizza

The vacation of eating continues! Seriously, Portland ME is a foodie mecca (donuts & duckfat fries). I really hoped we’d make it to Portland Pie and it was everything I dreamed of. I buy their refrigerated pizza dough at the grocery store and love it. It is the best, hands down. It worked out to be a great dinner option for the last night we were in town.
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I was really torn as to what I was in the mood for. Their fall specials looked amazing. I might need to recreate one of their fall dishes. There was a mustard/sauerkraut/bratwurst/pumpkin ale pizza that sounded amazing. I also was intrigued by a maple balsamic dressing for salad.

We got an app (even though Mr. J was all about the pumpkin cheesecake for dessert). I knew after all our eating we could not eat an app, pizza, and dessert. Way. too. much.

We chose the sweet potato smoked cheddar dip with rosemary biscotti.
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They were working the kinks out on this one. We actually sent it back to be reheated. The breadbowl it was in was nicely warmed, the cheddar on top of the dip was melted, but the dip was cold. It wasn’t just “not piping hot” but it was cold. We neverrr send stuff back but this was meant to be warm. It then took forever. Other tables got their salads, drink refills, salads cleared and pizza served while we waited.

The kitchen wasn’t sure the best way to reheat it while maintaining the dip. I wanted to cancel it but our server was a bit MIA. She returned telling us it would be ready when the pizza was and the kitchen made a new app. I really would have just cancelled it or they could have offered to take it off the bill. Instead they offered us dessert. That made Mr. J one happy guy.

Our server thought it would be ready when the pizza was so we asked for whatever was ready to come out. I didn’t want the pizza sitting to stay warm. I’m not sure it was worth all the hype for all of this process, but it was good. Smoked gouda would have been better.

We ordered 2 pizzas so there’d be some leftovers to take home for the next day. We got one Bar Harbor which was super exciting now that Mr. J eats scallops! Woohoo! It was scallops, bacon, mozzarella with alfredo sauce. It was amazing. The scallops were cooked nicely and every bite was flavorful. The topping to crust ratio was spot on.
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The other pizza we got was called Dead River. It was red sauce and had spinach, red peppers, ricotta, and we swapped out hamburger for sausage. It is finished with garlic and crushed red pepper. Some bites definitely have a kick to them. I liked this one a lot and it was a great contrast to the sweet & smokey scallop pizza.
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One of my favorite things that happened was just too funny. For some reason our server didn’t seem sure that we were together. She packed the dessert to go as separate containers and asked if we each wanted some of each pizza packed up. I was so amused since we were celebrating our 1st wedding anniversary weekend!

I love their menu. I wish there was a Portland Pie near me! I’d be happy to drink the delicious local-to-Maine brews and dine on their expansive menu if they wanted to come further south!
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Chicken Parmesan Pizza

Seems like a good day for pizza, right? When isn’t a good time for an easy-peasy-pizza?! I whipped up a super simple one I wanted to share despite how little cooking I actually did. Seems appropriate for a Monday. This will not overload your brain.

I was shooting for a super easy chicken Parmesan calzone but my dough was being difficult. I mean holes, bubbles, sticky, and crazy elastic-y even after getting to room temp. I’ve never had such a hard time. I remembered seeing a pizza joint on Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives that puts cornmeal into the dough. I wasn’t sure it went, but I jumped on it.

Success! It was nutty and crispy. I usually use Portland Pie Company’s dough and I’m obsessed. I was improvising after grabbing some at a different grocery store. Yikes. It was touch & go for a few minutes there.
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Ingredients:

4 chicken fingers, cooked & chopped (frozen or bread your own)
1 ball pizza dough
1 cup tomato sauce
8 oz shredded mozzarella cheese
8 oz fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced
3 tbs Parmesan cheese, grated
2 tsp Italian seasoning
1 tsp garlic, chopped

Directions:

Spread pizza dough out and bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees.
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When dough is starting to crisp and cook through, take it out and top with sauce, spices, and garlic.
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Spread shredded mozzarella all over then top with chicken.
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Bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees or until cheese is melted and crust is crisp.
Remove from the oven and spread mozzarella slices over the top. Return it to the oven and allow the cheese to melt with the oven off.
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