Breakfast Pizza Recipe with Sausage Gravy

Breakfast pizza is pizza dough topped with common breakfast ingredients such as sausage gravy, cheese, and eggs. The pizza crust can bake in any pizza pan, cast-iron skillet, or sheet pan that one has on hand! We love a fluffy and crusty pizza dough loaded with tons of creamy sausage gravy, cheese, scrambled eggs, and a pinch of sage! It is a breakfast pizza recipe children even reach for!

Main ingredients found in most recipes include eggs, bacon, sausage, cheddar cheese, mozzarella, and bell peppers (Western-style.) Sauce ingredients for breakfast pizza are usually gravy or a cheddar cheese sauce. Red tomato sauce can be used. 

This breakfast recipe comes together easily! Here is what you’ll need:

• Pizza Crust- choose from any of our pizza dough recipes or opt-out for refrigerated dough. Try out our Healthy Sourdough English Muffins for a healthy crust!
• Sauce- make this pizza recipe with a cheddar cheese sauce or Country gravy (aka sausage gravy.)
• Cheese- cheese blends or cheeses like cheddar cheese, mozzarella, Monterey Jack Colby, or White cheddar will go fantastic! Scrambled eggs- we usually make our scrambled eggs this way, which is just a splash of milk to beaten eggs and some black pepper before we fry it on a skillet.
• Sage- this is like the secret ingredient spice! just a pinch can transform the aroma to “breakfast.”

You can make any pizza dough or pizza crust recipe that works for your family. Don’t just buy the crescent roll dough when we have a large collection of pizza dough recipes to experiment with but if breakfast needs to be done in a cinch make this pizza dough recipe or use these dough ideas:

• refrigerated biscuit dough
• refrigerated crescent dough
• pre-made pizza crust
• refrigerated pizza dough
• Naan Bread
• English Muffins

Homemade pizza can be prepared and stored in many different ways.

• Par-bake and top with all the breakfast toppings, then Freeze.
• Place leftovers covered into the refrigerator and reheat later.
• Make-Ahead and keep in the refrigerator then reheat in a toaster oven.
• Pre-make the pizza crust and assemble pizza the morning of.

Storing: already made pizza or pizza dough keeps in the fridge well. Store leftovers in the fridge for up to 3 days or freeze for up to 3 months. My mom likes to place the leftover pizza into freezer bags and later toast to reheat.

1. Make the pizza crust: in a pint measuring cup, whisk together the yeast, sugar, warm water, salt, and oil. Let sit 5 minutes to foam. Pour into the flour and form dough into a ball. The dough is ready when it no longer sticks to your hands.
2. Divide the dough into two well-greased cast-iron pans: spread about 1 cup of sausage gravy over each crust. Top with cheese and scrambled eggs. Sprinkle the top with a pinch of ground sage.
3. Bake- in a pre-heated 500°F for 7-10 minutes or until crust is browned and the pizza is done.

This recipe is so easy and takes only minutes to prepare the pizza dough from scratch!

Need some breakfast topping ideas? Here is a list of toppings to experiment with:

• sausage, bacon, and veggie (peppers and onions)
• scrambled eggs, mozzarella, and cheddar cheese.
• sausage gravy, scrambled eggs, bacon, cheddar cheese, mozzarella cheese
• Cheddar cheese sauce, crumbled sausage, eggs, cheddar cheese, and mozzarella.
• Sausage flavored Country Gravy Mix, crumbled sausage, mozzarella cheese.

We don’t own a pizza stone because we get fantastic crispy crusts on our pizza dough using regular pans here’s how. Bake pizza at the highest oven temperature! Professional pizza ovens go up to 500°F + and that is the secret to getting that perfectly crisp pizza crust!

I personally interchange between 3 different pizza pans when I bake pizza. For a Domino’s Pizza Crust, I like to use this pizza screen just like the pizzeria!

This perforated pizza pan and the pizza screen are my favorites! I like to lightly grease my performed pan before placing the crust on top. Pizza Hut makes their stuffed crust pizza on a perforated pizza pan and it leaves small little holes on the bottom of the crust.

I didn’t know I’d come to love a cast-iron skillet for making pizza! After my friend sent me pictures of her amazing pizza in a cast-iron it became my favorite way to make a deep-dish kind of pizza! The pizza dough just comes out so fluffy and crisp! And a generous amount of oil is the secret to getting a nicely browned crust.

Here are the 2 different sized cast-iron skillets that I use:

• 10.5″ seasoned cast-iron skillet
• Lodge 9″ cast-iron skillet

If you’re not familiar with Casey’s pizza, it’s sold in a Southwestern chain of convenience stores (gas station/mini-marts.) I have never tried their pizza but if I’ll ever be in Iowa, I would love to try the pizza they sell for breakfast! Here is an interesting copycat of Casey’s Pizza!