Meatball Pizza

My grandmother's 75th birthday was last week, and my mother threw her a big surprise party with the whole family...even some from out of town! Along with the party came lots and LOTS of leftovers....mainly meatballs. My sister made the meatballs, and after seeing how many were left over, I'm certain she made enough for 200 people instead of just 20. So what to do with all the leftover meatballs...... Enter one of my new favorite recipe blogs: http://www.plainchicken.com/

It just so happened that Tuesday's recipe was for a meatball pizza! I love it when the stars all align like that!! I had never actually heard of a "meatball pizza" but apparently it's not that uncommon. I make some of my own tweaks to the recipe, and the hubs and I loved it! I actually made it two nights in a row because it was so easy, and I still have meatballs still coming out of my ears.

Ingredients:
1 pillsbury pizza crust (regular not thin)
pizza sauce
1 1/2 cups mozzarella, shredded
4 frozen meatballs, thawed and sliced (or left over meatballs in my case!)
1/4 cup ricotta cheese
garlic salt, oregano & parsley
2 tbs butter


Spray your pizza pan with non-stick cooking spray, and roll the dough out to fit the size of the pan.

Melt butter in microwave then add garlic salt, oregano & parsley.  Mix it up and brush it on the pizza dough.

Bake the dough in the oven for 5-8 minutes (if you use Pillsbury pizza dough you do it at 400°).

Take the dough out and put on your sauce, then mozzarella cheese and sliced meatballs.

Then take your ricotta cheese and just dollup little bits all over in between the meatballs and bake the rest for about 10-15 minutes depending on how crispy/dark you want like your pizza. I like mine almost burned to a crisp.... so I think I kept mine in 15 minutes or maybe even more.

Enjoy!

**The first day I made this, I didnt put the butter, garlic salt, oregano & parsley... it still tasted great, so if you need to make it even faster, you can totally skip this step!

***The meatballs I used were party-style meatballs...as in they were originally made in a sweet sauce, not a tomato based sauce, but they still tasted great on this pizza. It even gave it a little sweet hint that was really good!