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The Aussie Pizza

The Aussie Pizza is covered in barbeque sauce, sprinkled with cheese, bacon, red onion, and topped with fresh eggs. It’s a fun and different pizza that is both great for breakfast and dinner.
Course Dinner, Pizza, Sourdough
Cuisine australia, Australian
Keyword aussie oizza, aussie pizza, bacon, barbeque sauce, barbeque sauce pizza, Pizza, sourdough
Servings 4

Ingredients

1 ball of a sourdough pizza dough or pizza dough from your own recipe or from a pizza place, see note

  • ½ cup plain BBQ sauce. Try not to use an overly sweet one.
  • 2 cups shredded Mozzarella cheese or a combination of Mozzarella and Jack Cheese
  • ½ cup thinly sliced red onion
  • 5 slices of bacon cooked and crumbled
  • 4 eggs

Fresh parsley chopped for garnish

Instructions

  1. Heat your oven to 500° with a baking or pizza steel or stone. Let the stone heat for at least 45 minutes or an hour if you have time. If you don’t have one, you can bake the pizza on a cookie sheet. Heat the cookie sheet in the oven.

  2. Once the oven has heated, turn the broiler on for 10 minutes while you shape the pizza.
  3. While the broiler is superheating the top of the baking stone, stretch, pat, or roll the pizza dough into a rough 12-14-inch circle. Be careful not to tear any holes in the dough. If you do, pinch together the dough to seal the hole. You don’t need to be perfect. I like my pizzas a bit oblong. It makes them look homemade.
  4. I like to place the pizza onto a piece of parchment paper on top of a pizza peel or even an unrimmed cookie sheet if you don’t have a skin.. The paper will make the pizza easy to slide onto the hot stone. The parchment paper will take the heat. You can also use a peel dusted with cornmeal or just flour.
  5. Spread the BBQ sauce evenly over the stretched dough.
  6. Sprinkle the bacon and thinly sliced red onion over the BBQ sauce.
  7. Crack each egg and place it onto the pizza. Being careful not to break the yolk, each egg should be over one-quarter of the pizza to make them evenly distributed.
  8. When the broiler has super-heated the stone for 10 minutes, turn the oven back to bake at 500°
  9. Carefully transfer the pizza to the hot baking stone or onto a cookie sheet if that is what you have.
  10. Cook the pizza for 10 minutes, check it after 10 minutes to see if the cheese is bubbling and the crust is starting to brown. The key here is to have the crust cooked, but the egg yolks are just cooked enough. It is a fine line. It may take a few more minutes, depending on your oven. Keep checking.
  11. When the pizza is done, sprinkle with some chopped parsley to brighten up the flavors.
  12. Serve hot.

Recipe Notes

Note: You can use ¼ of my sourdough bread recipe for this Aussie Pizza or use your own Pizza dough recipe. In a pinch or if you don’t want to make your own crust, you can find ready-made dough in many grocery stores. And if you have a local pizza restaurant, they will usually sell you a ball or two of their fresh dough.