Keto Breakfast Pizza

Prep: 15 min Cook: 12 min Total: 27 min Servings: 8
Annie Lampella @ Ketofocus

By Annie Lampella, Pharm.D.

Published June 5, 2020 • Updated October 21, 2022

Pizza is now a breakfast food when it's keto

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If you love leftover pizza for breakfast, you love this keto breakfast pizza with fresh crumbled bacon, basil and a creamy garlic sauce. Even a few eggs are cracked on the top for the ultimate slice of heaven first thing in the morning!

A low-carb breakfast pizza for the dedicated pizza fans. Crispy bacon, creamy garlic sauce, mozzarella cheese and fresh basil are sprinkled on a keto pizza crust. Then we crack four eggs over the pizza and bake the pizza in the oven until the crust is crispy and the eggs are set. When you cut into the egg with your fork, the yellowy-orange yolk spilled out and covers your pizza. You don’t even need red pizza sauce or ranch dressing to dip your pizza in. This is an incredible keto breakfast pizza recipe that will have your taste buds swirling with every bite! I presented this recipe at a keto conference several years ago. Many made it along with me and all agreed it was a fantastic recipe. See the video below to watch me make it!

How to make keto breakfast pizza

  1. Make the keto pizza crust. This low-carb breakfast pizza recipe uses a fat head dough as the crust which is made using melted mozzarella cheese, almond flour, egg, xanthan gum, baking powder and salt. No need for cream cheese in this dough! You don’t need those extra carbs and it does nothing for the dough.
  2. Make the garlic white pizza sauce by mixing ricotta cheese with garlic and salt.
  3. Sprinkle shredded cheese all over the pizza dough. Along with crumbled bacon.
  4. Add dollops of the garlic ricotta cheese sauce over the pizza along with red pepper flakes and grated parmesan cheese.
  5. Bake for 4 minutes.
  6. Crack some eggs on top because eggs are a proper breakfast food. And bake for 6-8 more minutes.
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Keto Breakfast Pizza

5 (4) Prep 15m Cook 12m Total 27m 8 servings

Keto Breakfast Pizza Crust Ingredients

  • 3 cup shredded mozzarella cheese, plus ½ cup for topping
  • 1 1/4 cups almond flour
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Toppings Ingredients

  • ¼ cup full fat ricotta cheese
  • 1 teaspoon minced garlic
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
  • 6 slices of bacon, cooked and crumbled
  • ¼ teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 3 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
  • 4 eggs
  • 4 to 6 basil leaves, sliced

Step by Step Instructions

Step by Step Instructions

1
Preheat oven

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

An oven showing 400 degrees as the temperature
2
Melt the cheese

Place 3 cups of mozzarella in a microwave-safe glass bowl. Microwave until cheese is melted – about 2 minutes. Remove from microwave and let the mixture cool while combining the remaining ingredients. If you don’t want to melt the cheese in a microwave, you can add it to a non-stick skillet and melt over the stovetop over medium heat.

oven temp set to 400 degrees
3
Food process it

To a food processor, add almond flour, one egg, baking powder, xanthan gum, and salt. Scoop in melted mozzarella cheese. Pulse until a dough ball forms. If you don’t own a food processor, you can mix the ingredients using an electric mixer or knead by hand until a dough is formed.

melted mozzarella cheese in a glass bowl
4
Flatten it

Place the dough in between two pieces of parchment paper. Using a rolling pin, roll out dough to desired thickness – about 1/8 to 1/4 inch thick. Remove top parchment layer and place the pizza dough and bottom parchment paper on top of a baking sheet or pizza stone.

a bowl of combined keto fathead pizza dough in a bowl
5
You will need a small bowl

In a small bowl, combine ricotta cheese, garlic and 1/4 teaspoon of salt. Set aside.

rolled out keto dough on a piece of parchment paper next to a rolling pin
6
Sprinkle evenly

Sprinkle 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese and crumbled bacon evenly over the rolled out keto pizza dough.

a small bowl with ricotta cheese
7
Dollop and bake

Add dollops of garlic ricotta cheese mixture evenly over the pizza. Sprinkle red pepper flakes and grated parmesan cheese over the pizza. Bake at 400 degrees for 4 minutes.

garlic and salt in it
8
Create some divots

Remove from oven. Use the back of a large spoon to make 4 divots on the pizza and crack remaining eggs into each divot. Return pizza to oven and bake for an additional 6-8 minutes or until egg white are almost set. Set oven to broil and broil pizza until eggs are cooked but yolks are still runny (about 30 seconds to 1 minute).

mozzarella cheese and bacon sprinkled on a pizza
9
Finish with basil

Remove pizza from oven. Sprinkle basil over pizza.

putting dollops of creamy garlic sauce on a breakfast pizza
Nutrition Per Serving 1 slice
410 Calories
30g Fat
28.4g Protein
4.8g Net Carbs
7.1g Total Carbs
8 Servings
Nutrition disclaimer

The nutrition information provided is an estimate and is for informational purposes only. I am a Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.); however, this content is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult your physician or other qualified health provider before making any lifestyle changes or beginning a new nutrition program.

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Perfect sauce for breakfast pizza

The easiest way to make a keto approved white sauce for a keto breakfast pizza is to combine ricotta cheese, garlic and salt. This creates a creamy, garlicky sauce that you don’t need to precook ahead of time. Look for a full-fat, whole milk based ricotta cheese when purchasing the ricotta. As a shortcut to mincing up garlic, I will often use garlic paste. I usually keep this in my refrigerator. It’s basically pureed garlic that you can use in place of minced garlic in any recipe calling for garlic flavor. If you don’t want to purchase a garlic of pre-made garlic sauce, you can make your own. I have a recipe for keto garlic sauce you should try. Although the creamy garlic flavor pairs perfectly with the bacon and eggs on this keto breakfast pizza, you can also use a red pizza sauce if you desire. My favorite brand of low-carb, low sugar pizza sauce is by Rao’s. However, you can make your own keto pizza sauce too. It’s very easy and only contains 1.2 gram net carbs per serving.
a slice of pizza cut out of a whole breakfast pizza with cracked egg shells nearby

How to make keto pizza crust

The pizza crust used to make this bacon and egg breakfast pizza is a fathead pizza crust. If you haven’t heard of fathead dough, you should read all about it in this recipe for keto fathead dough. I give you my basic recipe for keto dough and tell you the history on how it came to be. Fat head dough is a keto pizza crust made out of mozzarella cheese, almond flour and egg. I also include baking powder and xanthan gum in my recipe to help the dough rise and provide structure. The pizza crust puffs up like regular pizza dough and creates a chewy texture in the middle and a crispy outer crust. The mozzarella cheese is used to mimic gluten in wheat flour. It serves to provide elasticity and support. Similar to the stretch that is seen when you pull apart a gluten flour based pizza dough, the mozzarella cheese provides the stretch.
whole eggs cooked into a pizza with bacon and sliced basil

Easiest way to make fathead dough

The easiest way to make keto fathead dough is to use a food processor. You add everything to the bowl of the food processor and pulse. A few seconds later, you have a perfectly combined fathead dough ball. I’ve used an electric mixer to make keto pizza crust, but the dough tends to fly everywhere when mixing and the melted mozzarella cheese likes to ride up the beaters. You can also combine the dough by hand, kneading it until it comes together. This is very time consuming and it’s difficult to get a completely uniform fathead dough. The food processor I use is by Breville. It has a dough attachment to make combining the fathead dough easy.

Breakfast pizza toppings

This recipe for keto breakfast pizza is very versatile. You can add any leftover meat from the night before. I’ve used leftover steak, leftover shrimp – but consider adding these pizza toppings too!
  • jalapeno
  • fresh bell pepper
  • crumbled sausage
  • kielbasa sausage
  • roasted garlic
  • arugula
  • tomato
  • mushrooms
  • spinach
  • scrambled eggs
  • green onion
  • pepperoni
a runny egg sits on top of a slice of pizza with basil leaves nearby

Storage information & meal prep tips

Pizza is usually on our menu every one or two weeks, so of course, I have some keto meal prep tips for you!

Storing fathead dough or pizza crust

One of my biggest keto meal prep tips is to make at least double or triple this recipe for fathead pizza dough so that you have it ready whenever you want to bake pizza in the future. Fathead dough can be frozen either in ball form or rolled out like a pizza pie. Simply roll store in a Ziploc bag or tightly wrapped in plastic wrap. Store the keto dough in the refrigerator for up to one week or in the freezer for 6 months. To unthaw, leave out at room temperature or in the refrigerator for several minutes.

Storing leftover keto breakfast pizza

This breakfast pizza makes an excellent keto meal prep recipe. You can make up a whole pizza on Sunday night or whenever your meal prep day is. Then have a slice for breakfast throughout the week. Pizza is portable too! So you can take it with you on the road if you have to have breakfast on-the-go in your car or on the bus. Store any leftover low-carb breakfast pizza in a Ziploc bag in the fridge.

Keto Breakfast Pizza

Frequently Asked Questions

What bacon is keto friendly?

Of course, bacon is keto approved! It is made up of primarily an equal mixture of protein and fat. Some bacon can be cured with sugar. That amount of sugar is very minimal and won’t affect your overall daily carb count. But if staying completely sugar-free is very important to you look for brands that don’t use sugar at all. Stay away from maple bacon or any bacon that was flavored with maple. This will contain maple syrup which is just like putting sugar on your bacon.

Should I buy free range eggs?

Free range eggs are from chickens that were allow to roam freely on open pastures for a certain amount of time. Each brand will provide their free range practices on their website, so make sure you look into that if the practice of raising chickens is important to you. I prefer to eat free range eggs because the nutrient value is much better compared to conventionally raised eggs in a cage. When a chicken is allowed to graze on a pasture, they produce an egg that is rich in omega 3 fatty acids and conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). You will notice their high nutrient content by the color of the egg yolk. A free-range chicken egg yolk is bright orange while a conventionally raised cage egg is pale yellow.

About the Author
Annie Lampella, Pharm.D.

Annie Lampella, Pharm.D.

Annie is a Doctor of Pharmacy, mom, and the recipe creator behind KetoFocus. With a B.S. in Genetics from UC Davis, she has over 14 years of experience developing family-friendly keto recipes based on the science of human metabolism.

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2 Comments

  1. The dollops of garlic ricotta baked into little creamy pockets and combined perfectly with the crispy bacon bits. Rolling the crust between parchment made it super easy to get that ideal thin base without sticking. The fresh basil on top added a burst of flavor that really woke up our tastebuds first thing in the morning!

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  2. So delicious! We used cottage cheese instead of ricotta and it was fantastic! Going into our regular weekend rotation to have leftovers for the week 🤩

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