Crustless Pizza Recipe (Ready in 20 Minutes!) (2024)

This Crustless Pizza Recipe is an easy one-pan low-carb pizza dinner for all the pizza lovers who care about their carbs!

Get your pizza night sorted with this 20-minute dinner and only 2 grams of net carbs per serving.

Pizza crusts are among the most popular recipes on Sweetashoney. My favorites are the keto pizza crust, coconut pizza crust, and thick keto pizza crust.

But someday, you might feel like a quick pizza meal, no baking, and a dish that can easily feed the whole family in 20 minutes and you can either make this recipe or my Cottage Cheese Pizza Bowls or Keto Pizza Bowl

So here’s my crustless pizza recipe for you!

What’s A Crustless Pizza?

A crustless pizza is a skillet pizza using ground meat as a base of the dish instead of a pizza crust.

Therefore, crustless pizzas are low in carbs and much quicker to prepare as no baking skills are required.

All you need is 20 minutes to make this quick and easy low-carb pizza casserole for dinner.

How To Make Crustless Pizza

A crustless pizza is the easiest keto dinner for pizza lovers!

It’s a dish where you throw everything in a skillet, cook, and eat!

You will enjoy all the classic pizza flavors as you can include all your favorite pizza toppings in this recipe.

But, compared to a traditional pizza, the carb count per serving is so small that you can indulge with no guilt and even have some more!

Of course, it’s not a pizza that you can eat with your hands for game night. It’s more a dish to enjoy in a bowl as a Crustless Pizza bowl!

Ingredients

To make this simple low-carb pizza dinner, you needed:

• Ground Beef – or any ground meat you love, including Italian sausage, ground pork, turkey, or chicken. If you are a vegetarian, you can skip the ground meat for cauliflower rice or broccoli rice!
• Olive oil
• Salt
• Garlic powder
• Mushrooms
• Olives
• Green bell peppers –one of the best keto-friendly vegetables on a pizza.
• Shredded mozzarella cheese –or any other keto-friendly cheese.
• Italian seasoning or Italian herbs
• Jalapeno for a spicy kick! Totally optional, but if you love a spicy pizza, it’s a must-add.
• Homemade keto pizza sauce –follow my instructions to make it.
• Freshly grated parmesan – option, you can just use more mozzarella, but I found the combination excellent!
• Pepperoni slices or cured ham of preferred.

Cooking The Meat

First, select a 9-inch non-stick cast iron skillet and warm some olive oil over medium heat.

Then, add the meat, salt, Italian herbs, and garlic powder. Stir and cook meat until it’s evenly cooked on all sides and the meat is not pink anymore.

Remove from heat and stir freshly grated parmesan with cooked meat. Spread the meat evenly in the skillet, then top it up with pizza sauce.

Assembling The Pizza

Next, add the sliced mushrooms, pieces of bell pepper, and olive slices, and top with shredded mozzarella.

Finally, add the pepperoni slices on top of the mozzarella to garnish.

Baking

Preheat the oven to 400°F(200°C). Place the skillet in the first rack from the top of the oven and bake for 8-15 minutes or until the cheese is melted and starts bubbling.

Serving

A crustless pizza recipe is made to be eaten in a bowl or plate. You serve the pizza in a bowl on top of shredded lettuce or on its own and top the pizza with spicy olive oil, jalapeno slices, or fresh basil leaves.

Storage

You can store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. Or, you can freeze leftovers in individual batches, perfect for meal-prepping quick keto dinners.

Pop the batch in the fridge the day before and rewarm in a microwave-safe dish or in an air fryer until hot.

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About The Author

Carine Claudepierre

Hi, I'm Carine, the food blogger, author, recipe developer, published author of a cookbook and many ebooks, and founder of Sweet As Honey.

I have an Accredited Certificate in Nutrition and Wellness obtained in 2014 from Well College Global (formerly Cadence Health). I'm passionate about sharing all my easy and tasty recipes that are both delicious and healthy. My expertise in the field comes from my background in chemistry and years of following a keto low-carb diet. But I'm also well versed in vegetarian and vegan cooking since my husband is vegan.

I now eat a more balanced diet where I alternate between keto and a Mediterranean Diet

Cooking and Baking is my true passion. In fact, I only share a small portion of my recipes on Sweet As Honey. Most of them are eaten by my husband and my two kids before I have time to take any pictures!

All my recipes are at least triple tested to make sure they work and I take pride in keeping them as accurate as possible.

Browse all my recipes with my Recipe Index.

I hope that you too find the recipes you love on Sweet As Honey!