Guest post by Jeremy Whitelaw
Ya’ll have probably had a cheesesteak pizza at some point in your life. Sliced steak, peppers, and onions on a pizza.
No big deal, right? But what if we reversed it?
What if we put a pizza on a cheese steak? Some bomb A garlic bread as the sando bread. Marinara, of course. Piled high with the finest sliced steak, peppers, onions, and cheese. So much cheese.
This sando isn’t for the casual gourmand. This culinary delight, this culinary fusion, this masterpiece is one for the books.
For other pizza infusion recipes, check out my Skirt Steak Pizza Pinwheels, Matambre A La Pizza, Pizza Sausage Skewers and Flap Steak Pizza.
Meat Selection for our Pizza Cheesesteak
This is a meat dish. As much as it’s a handheld, a sandwich, a sando; meat is the star of the show.
There’s 2 lbs of meat here. Being the star of the show, this is where you drop the big money, so make the investment and earn the rewards.
Prepackaged “shaved beef” is slightly above the mystery meat that your high school cafeteria served. Like that shoe company says: Just don’t do it.
Plus, it’s not worthy of this Pizza Cheesesteak!
Eye of round is popular for beef sandos, mostly because it’s a step above shoe leather.
Makes great jerky. But who’s ever had a beef jerky sando? That seems like a bear best not poked.
Sirloin is a beautiful cut. It’s one of my favorite steaks because it’s flavorful, lean, and great texture.
But maybe too lean for what we’re making. But now I really want to go make some picanha.
My money is on ribeye because it packs tons of flavor and is well marbled. Tender as all get out, you don’t want to be chewing for days.
It’ll give your Pizza Cheesesteak the extra kick in the tookus it needs.
We’re spreading this beef out, this Pizza Cheesesteak feed 6 adults (or one Ron Swanson). The price per serving is quite affordable even with a high-quality meat.
For more steak packed handhelds, check out my Loaded Choripan, Cheese Stuffed Sausage Sandwich, Chipotle BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich and Cheesy Patty Melt.
Garlic Bread
The handshake of this dish, what brings it together, is the bread. A cheesesteak has a bun, while a pizza has a crust.
However, using a plain bun or a pizza crust wouldn’t perform the voodoo magic we need to bring this sando together.
We need more, we deserve more. Garlic Bread.
Spreading some cheese and garlic powder on a slice of white bread does not make garlic bread (but it does make a clutch struggle meal).
The hero of garlic bread is the garlic, roasted garlic.
Packed tight and roasted until the garlic is tender, flavorful, and spreads like butter. There’s truly nothing like it.
Wildly impressive and astonishingly easy to make. And it’s perfect for our Pizza Cheesesteak!
Now that’s not to say that we’re going to ignore our “boosters”. Plenty of parmesan cheese, butter, oregano, and flakey salt.
Don’t skimp on the good stuff because this garlic bread could be eaten on it’s own.
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Pizza Cheesesteak with Peppers
Ingredients
- 2 lbs Ribeye
- 1 cup White Onion Sliced
- 1 cup Mushrooms
- 1.5 tbsp Kosher Salt
- 3 Bell peppers Sliced
- 1.5 tbsp Black Pepper
- Canola Oil as needed
- 1 Italian Bread
- 1 cup Marinara
- 2 cups Mozzarella Cheese shredded
- 1 head Garlic roasted
- 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
- 1 tbsp Oregano
Instructions
- First, make your garlic bread. Slice open your Italian bread and top each half with olive oil, butter, oregano, roasted garlic and salt and pepper. Bake in your smoker at 350 degrees F for 10 minutes until it's nice, bubbly and crispy. Set aside.
- Preheat your grill to medium-high heat. Slice your bell peppers, mushrooms and onions. Place in a cast-iron skillet on the grill and cook until translucent, about 10 minutes.
- Season your ribeyes. While the vegetables are cooking, reverse sear your ribeyes until medium rare.
- Pour your marinara and heat in a saucepan on the grill until warm. Once the marinara is ready, assemble your sandwich: the bottom half of the garlic bread, marinara, steak, vegetables, cheese, vegetables, more cheese. Place back on the grill to warm up and get the cheese nice and bubbly.
- Place the top half of the garlic bread on the sandwich, slice the sandwich and serve.
I made this last night and it was a big hit! I had to reverse sear the steak since I didn’t have access to a grill. I seasoned with salt and pepper and tasted great with the other flavors in the sandwich! Worth roasting the garlic.