Copycat Taco Bell Mexican Pizza: Recipe & Calories

The Mexican Pizza is two thin tortillas fried until rigid, seasoned beef and refried beans between them, enchilada-style red sauce and a three-cheese blend on top, diced tomato over all. This is our own home version — an inspired copycat, not Taco Bell's recipe, which the chain does not publish. The original's numbers are the benchmark below.

Ingredients

• 4 small flour tortillas
• 250g ground beef
• 1 tablespoon of the seasoned-beef spice mix (chilli powder, cumin, paprika, garlic and onion powder)
• 200g refried beans, warmed
• 120ml red enchilada sauce
• 100g shredded three-cheese blend
• 1 tomato, diced
• Oil, for frying

Method

1. Fry the tortillas. Heat a shallow layer of oil and fry each tortilla until rigid and lightly golden, about 30 seconds a side. Drain on paper.
2. Cook the beef. Brown the ground beef, drain the fat, then simmer with the spice mix and a splash of water until glossy and fine-textured.
3. Build the base. Spread refried beans over one crisp tortilla, spoon the seasoned beef over the beans, and cap with the second tortilla.
4. Top and bake. Spread the red sauce over the top tortilla, scatter the cheese and diced tomato, and bake at 200°C for 8–10 minutes, until the cheese melts and spots.
5. Serve. Cut in quarters like the original and serve immediately, while the tortillas are still crisp.

Serving size & prep time

Makes 2 pizzas (serves 2 as a main). Prep about 10 minutes; cooking about 15 minutes.

Nutrition — the honest version

The restaurant's Mexican Pizza is 530 calories with 28g fat, 19g protein and 1,010mg sodium. We do not publish a summed homemade total. The ingredients vary by brand and portion — the tortillas, the cheese quantity and the beef's fat content all move the total — so any figure we printed would be an estimate. Cook against the original's panel above: the build to match is the crisp tortilla, the beef-and-bean layer and the cheese on top. The Mexican Pizza page carries the original's full label, and the copycat recipes hub has the seasoned-beef spice mix in full.

About this guide's data

Every figure in this guide comes from one dataset: sampled Taco Bell prices and published nutrition, compiled and verified in October 2026 (prices are re-checked monthly, and every data page carries its verification stamp). Rankings state their rule in the open and are computed from those rows — never voted on, never estimated. Where a value is missing it is shown as missing, and each named item links to its own page, where the full label, allergen record and sampled price range can be checked. Prices vary by location; nutrition values are the published figures for the standard build.