This Pizza Grilled Cheese Sandwich is an awesome alternative when you don’t have time to make a whole pizza pie. Choose your favorite bread, sauce, and pepperoni for a delicious and quick grilled cheese that will hit the spot and quench your pizza craving. Let the kids choose any added toppings to make it their own and they are sure to have a blast making and eating it.
Pizza Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe
Grilled cheese is a classic comfort food that everyone loves. Anytime I make grilled cheese the kids love it and so I have been changing things up and making lots of different grilled cheese sandwiches recipes. The kids are loving it and never complain when I ask them to taste test a grilled cheese recipe with gooey cheese and other toppings.
Most recently I brought them into the kitchen to test out the newest grilled cheese sandwich recipe, Pizza grilled cheese! This tasty twist on the classic sandwich they loved, I added pepperoni to make a pepperoni pizza grilled cheese sandwich but you can always change out the pepperoni for one of your favorite pizza toppings instead.
Grilled cheese pizza sandwiches are the perfect meal to make on a busy night and they are so easy to make that the kids can make them by themselves if they want to. That makes them them perfect a quick lunch or even a snack!
If you are looking for a budget friendly pizza recipe that the whole family will enjoy this American classic combo that combines grilled cheese with pizza for what my son calles the best grilled cheese sandwich recipe!
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Can I make Grilled cheese sandwiches in advance?
Grilled cheese sandwiches are best eaten fresh. You can prepare the sandwich ahead of time, wrap it tightly in wrap to prevent the bread from getting stale, and then fry it just before serving. I do not recommend freezing Grilled cheese sandwiches.
What other toppings aside from Pepperoni could I add?
The options are limitless! When I think of some classic pizza combos, I can easily see them also in a grilled cheese sandwich. Think of 4 cheese, meat lovers (although I’d recommend a sturdy bread for this one), veggies like onions, mushrooms, and olives, or whatever your favorites are. Another alternative is to see what you need to use up in the fridge!
What Sauce should I use for my Pizza Grilled Cheese?
Make sure to use a good flavored sauce as it is the base for your pizza grilled cheese. If the sauce is bland, then your sandwich could be too. I like to reach for a full bodied sauce like tomato, basil, and garlic flavor or pick your favorite. Not sure? Try my homemade pizza sauce, you can also use a jarred tomato sauce or even marinara sauce.
What bread should I use for this recipe?
The great thing about this recipe is you can use any type of bread that you have on hand. I normally have white bread, Italian bread, and wheat bread on hand so I use one of those. If you have texas toast on hand you can heat that in the oven and then use that also. One of my kids has done that a few times and loves it that way.
What can I serve with my Pizza Grilled Cheese?
One of my favorite sides to serve with the Pizza Grilled Cheese is a nice mixed salad. With all that cheese, it’s nice to balance the meal out with a bit of green goodness. Add in some tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, and any other of your favorite salad fixings.
- Crispy Sweet Potato Fries
- Salad
- homemade potato chips
- Garlic Parmesan Potato Chips
- Sea Salt and Pepper potato chips
- Fruit Salad
- Fresh Fruit
- tomato soup
How to Keep Grilled Cheese sandwiches warmed when cooking for a large group of people
If you are making a lot of sandwiches, heat the oven to 250° Fahrenheit and add each sandwich to the oven on a baking sheet to keep hot till ready to serve.
Tips For Making Pizza Grilled Cheese
- Cook on medium low heat. It might be tempting to turn up the heat to make things go faster, however, you do not want to cook grilled cheese on anything higher then medium low heat.
- Be Patient. It might be tempting to speed things up a bit, but doing so will end up with cheese that is not properly melted and bread that gets burnt.
- Making multiple sandwiches. If you are making multiple sandwiches at one time then you will want to use a large skillet so you have room to flip the sandwiches over while you are cooking them.
Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipes
- Provolone Grilled Cheese
- Spinach Grilled Cheese
- Grilled Cheese Roll ups
- Air Fryer Grilled Cheese Recipe
- Bacon Grilled Cheese
- Rainbow Grilled Cheese
- Caprese Grille Cheese Sandwich
Pizza Grilled Cheese Sandwich Ingredients
- 4 slices of sandwich bread
- 1 tablespoon tomato sauce per sandwich (I like to use the tomato, basil garlic flavors)
- 6-9 pepperoni slices per sandwich
- 1/4 cup Shredded mozzarella cheese per sandwich. I like them cheesy, adjust as desired, you can also use a slice of mozzarella cheese.
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon Paprika
- 1/8 teaspoon Garlic Powder
How to Make Pizza Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Add oil to a small bowl and mix in Italian Seasoning, Salt, Pepper, Paprika, and garlic.
Using a pastry brush, cover 1 side of 2 pieces of bread. Flip over
Add 1/2 tablespoon of sauce per slice of bread.
Layer 6-9 slices of pepperoni onto slices (I like to cover the entire sandwich with the pepperoni slices.)
Add mozzarella cheese on top of the pepperoni slices.
Add 1/2 tablespoon of sauce on each of the second slice of bread for each sandwich and place the slice of bread sauce side down on top of the cheese on the other slice of bread as the top piece of bread.
Brush the top of the bread with the oil mixture.
Heat non-stick frying pan on medium heat and place the sandwich with pepperoni side down into the pan. Fry for 4-5 minutes until bread is toasted golden brown, then flip over.
Fry for another 3-4 minutes until the bread is toasted and the cheese is melted. You may need to adjust the time depending on how much cheese you added.
Pizza Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Ingredients
- 4 slices of sandwich bread
- 1 tablespoon tomato sauce per sandwich I like to use the tomato, basil garlic flavors
- 6-9 pepperoni slices per sandwich
- 1/4 cup Shredded mozzarella cheese per sandwich. I like them cheesy adjust as desired, you can also use a slice of mozzarella cheese.
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon Italian Seasoning
- Salt to taste
- Pepper to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon Paprika
- 1/8 teaspoon Garlic Powder
Instructions
- Add oil to a small bowl and mix in Italian Seasoning, Salt, Pepper, Paprika, and garlic.
- Using a pastry brush, cover 1 side of 2 pieces of bread. Flip over
- Add 1/2 tablespoon of sauce per slice of bread.
- Layer 6-9 slices of pepperoni onto slices (I like to cover the entire sandwich with the pepperoni slices.)
- Add mozzarella cheese on top of the pepperoni slices.
- Add 1/2 tablespoon of sauce on each of the second slice of bread for each sandwich and place the slice of bread sauce side down on top of the cheese on the other slice of bread as the top piece of bread.
- Brush the top of the bread with the oil mixture.
- Heat non-stick frying pan on medium heat and place the sandwich with pepperoni side down into the pan. Fry for 4-5 minutes until bread is toasted golden brown, then flip over.
- Fry for another 3-4 minutes until the bread is toasted and the cheese is melted. You may need to adjust the time depending on how much cheese you added.
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