TACO BELL MEXICAN PIZZA RECIPE + WonkyWonderful (2024)

FAQs

Did Taco Bell change the Mexican Pizza recipe? ›

Is the Mexican Pizza coming back with its original ingredients? The Mexican Pizza returned to the menu in all its previous glory, complete with the same ingredients including seasoned beef and refried beans between two fried flour tortillas, topped with pizza sauce, three-cheese blend and fresh diced tomatoes.

“One silver lining of saying goodbye to the Mexican Pizza that might help you rest easy is that removing it from our menus helps us work towards our commitment to leave a lighter footprint on our planet. Currently, Mexican Pizza packaging accounts for over 7 million pounds of paperboard material per year in the U.S.”

The Taco Bell Mexican Pizza sauce is a tomato-based sauce with zesty flavor from green chiles, onion, and spices. It tastes like a red pizza sauce combined with enchilada sauce or salsa.

"They're flatter/thinner, crispier, and closer to a corn tortilla than the old ones," another person added. "The originals were lighter and flakier and didn't taste like corn tortillas." For its part, Taco Bell is maintaining that the ingredients are the same as before.

The Mexican pizza from Taco Bell takes a couple of flour tortillas to act as the crust. These tortillas are fried crispy and stand up to the ingredients the way a typical pizza crust should. Then, a layer of seasoned taco meat and refried beans are added to the bottom “crust”. The next tortilla layer is added.

This dish, however, may not be the best option for those who are keen on maintaining a healthy, low-calorie diet. According to Taco Bell's published nutritional information (required by the FDA), a typical serving of the Taco Bell Mexican pizza weighs about 213g and contains 530 calories.

The item was introduced in 1985 as the Pizzazz Pizza, when its recipe also included olives and green onions. It was renamed "Mexican Pizza" in 1988.

Some online critics suggest the Mexican Pizza's shell is different from when it was taken off the menu in 2020. Mike Pomranz has been covering craft beer for nearly two decades and trending food and beverage news for Food & Wine for 7 years.

Mexican Pizza will return as a permanent menu item September 15, exactly how we remember it. That means that this dish of seasoned beef and refried beans between two fried flour tortillas, topped with pizza sauce, three-cheese blend and fresh diced tomatoes, will be exactly as it was.

An E. coli outbreak among patrons of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania-area Taco Bell restaurants has been traced to E. coli-contminated green onions. Taco Bell has pulled all green onions from restaurants nationwide and closed suburban Philadelphia Taco Bell stores after four E.

What did the original Mexican Pizza look like? ›

The original Taco Bell Pizza that came out in 1985 included extra ingredients that aren't on today's Mexican Pizza –- black olives and green onions. With all those toppings, it looked a lot more like a real pizza. The olives were gone by the early 1990s, so we barely expect to see those.

Where do your ingredients come from? We buy many of our ingredients for our restaurants from the same brands that you see in the grocery store and your kitchen: for example, lettuce from Taylor Farms, tortillas from Mission, Hass avocados and poultry from Tyson.

Packaging: Taco Bell's hot sauce packets are made from a polyethylene (PE) and metallized aluminum structure.

Some online critics suggest the Mexican Pizza's shell is different from when it was taken off the menu in 2020. Mike Pomranz has been covering craft beer for nearly two decades and trending food and beverage news for Food & Wine for 7 years.

Differences in the pizza crust

The crust on the Taco Bell Mexican Pizza in the ads looks yellowish like a corn tostada, so you could easily assume that it's a corn tortilla. However, if you look more closely at the ingredient list for the pizza shell, it has both bleached wheat flour and ground corn.

The veggie Mexican Pizza is almost exactly the same, except it only features refried beans between the two tortilla shells.

As of my last update, Taco Bell has not announced any major changes to their tortillas. They continue to serve their classic tacos, burritos, and other delightful dishes wrapped in the same tasty tortillas we've all come to enjoy.