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    Home » Recipes » Comfort Food

    Easy Philly Cheese Steak Pizza

    Published: Oct 25, 2011 · Modified: Aug 24, 2020 by Tiffany Dahle · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    This restaurant-style flatbread pizza has a deliciously American twist: The Philly cheese steak pizza recipe calls for prepared naan bread instead of a homemade pizza crust. Use leftover flank steak in a pinch and let your kids build their own pizza for an awesome and easy family dinner.

    A flatbread pizza with strips of steak and red peppers is covered in melted cheese and fresh parsley.

    Oh, what a gorgeous failure this pizza dinner was. Steak, cheese, pizza crust, HOW can my family not just devour it?! I'll tell you: because I put red peppers and onions on the top. For shame! Not just one, but all three of the members of my family acted as though I was torturing them slowly by enforcing they eat this homemade flatbread pizza.

    I found a recipe for steak and onion pizza in the November issue of Everyday Food and I had to try it. For some reason, I thought I could get away with it because it was pizza. Pizza is almost its own food group in this household. So I thawed my homemade crust from the freezer, grilled up the flank steak, chopped and sauteed the veggies, and proceeded to sit in abject horror as Little Pea threw the food to the floor, the Peanut burst into tears, and Handyman Tim not so discreetly used his fork to pick every single piece of produce off the top of his serving.

    But from the ashes of this disaster rose one of the most delicious day-after lunches I've made in a long long time. Is anyone else out there as addicted to the naan bread packs from Costco as we are?? I took the leftover beef and cheese and made personal sized "pizza" the next afternoon. The significantly softer bread crust paired with just the steak and cheese passed the taste test for both girls. (Tim was out of town but I'm certain he would have loved it and it will be appearing again someday soon.)

    The beauty of this treatment is that I slathered my portion with double helpings of peppers and onions. I swear it tasted JUST like a Philly steak sandwich in open-face pizza form. Even I can admit that the naan crust was significantly tastier than the homemade pizza crust. So much so, that I might forgo the effort of making pizza crust for a while. It misses the "crunch" but is far less doughy than my pizza crusts have been lately.

    Easy Philly cheesesteak pizza: with a surprising secret ingredient

    A flatbread pizza with strips of steak and red peppers is covered in melted cheese and fresh parsley.

    Philly Steak Pizza

    5 from 2 votes
    This delicious flatbread pizza is a fun twist for family dinner -- part Philly cheesesteak, part pizza. It's a great way to get kids to try peppers and onions, but let them build their own. 
    TOTAL TIME 30 minutes
    PREP TIME 5 minutes
    Resting Time 10 minutes
    COOK TIME 15 minutes
    YIELD 6 servings
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    Ingredients
      

    • 1 flank steak mine weighed 1 pound
    • 2 red bell peppers sliced thin
    • 1 red onion sliced thin
    • 1 tablespoon olive oil
    • 1 (8 oz) bag of shredded Monterey Jack Cheese
    • Naan bread an Indian flatbread, you can find it in the packaged bread aisle.
    • Fresh parsley chopped

    Instructions

    • Preheat the oven to 400°F.
    • Heat a large saute pan to medium-high heat. Drizzle a tablespoon of olive oil in the pan. Season the steak with salt and pepper. Saute the steak for 6-8 minutes until medium-rare. Remove to a plate and tent with tin foil for 10 minutes.
    • Add another teaspoon or two of olive oil to the pan. Saute the veggies over high heat until softened with browned charred bits. Remove from heat and set aside.
    • Slice the steak against the grain as thinly as you can.
    • Place the naan bread on a large cookie sheet. Brush the entire surface of each bread with a little olive oil.
    • Top the breads with steak slices, veggies, and shredded cheese. Heat in the oven for 5 minutes or until the cheese has melted.
    • Sprinkle with fresh parsley and serve.
    COURSEPizza
    CUISINEAmerican
    AUTHORTiffany Dahle

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    1. Erlene

      September 17, 2013 at 1:13 am

      OMGee! I found your blog through a Pinterest link and I had to laugh when I read this post. I can totally relate because both of my boys won't eat peppers or onions. My girls will...thank goodness. My boys will sit at the table and pick all the bits and pieces off their pizza. Now if I make pizza, I make half with and half without.

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    2. Renee

      November 04, 2011 at 6:56 am

      YUM. Both this and the spinoccoli have me salivating. And I know my boys would look at me like I have two heads if I tried serving either 🙂 But turning the Philly into a sandwich would probably be okay with the hubby.

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