INGREDIENTS
1 tube refrigerated thin crust pizza dough
oil
corn meal
1 lb. lean ground beef
1 clove garlic, minced
seasoned salt
ketchup
mustard
1 small onion, finely chopped
dill pickle slices
12 slices American cheese
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven according to pizza dough directions. Coat baking pan with oil and sprinkle with cornmeal. Spread pizza dough out to fit pan. Pre-bake for 5 minutes. Meanwhile, season ground beef with seasoned salt and brown with garlic. Drain. Set aside.
Spread pre-baked pizza crust generously with ketchup. Drizzle with mustard. Top with browned hamburger, onion, pickles, and cheese. Return to the oven for 6-10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and pizza is heated through.
METHOD
I browned a pound of lean ground beef in a skillet with a clove of minced garlic. I seasoned it well with seasoning salt too. Once browned, I drained the fat into my “grease can” and then put the beef on paper towels to drain a little more.
While the hamburger browned, then drained, I oiled up a baking sheet and dusted it with cornmeal. I grabbed a tube (that’s right, I didn’t make my own pizza crust…again!) of Pillsbury thin crust pizza dough from the fridge and pressed it out to cover the baking sheet.
Following the package directions, I pre-baked the crust for 5 minutes before topping. This next step is where I really stepped out of my comfort zone: I grabbed squeeze bottles of both ketchup and mustard and gave the crust a good coating. No exact measurements on this, I just squeezed until it looked good. There was definitely more ketchup then mustard, though. Adjust to your personal tastes. 
I topped the condiments with the seasoned, browned hamburger. 
Sprinkle with one smallish onion, finely chopped.
Arrange dill pickle slices over the onion layer.
Top with American singles. Oh yeah…. A side note: I knew that my daughters and their visiting friend would never go for ketchup, mustard, onions, and pickles on pizza, so I made 1/3 of the pizza (visible on the left side here) a traditional pepperoni version complete with pizza sauce and mozzarella.
Bake for another 6-10 minutes (this was according the directions on the pizza dough “tube”) until the cheese is melted. I baked mine for 10 minutes.
By Krista’s Kitchen.
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