Pizza King BBQ Pizza

Before I moved away from Indiana, at least once a week I would have for lunch a Pizza King Barbeque Pizza and one large beer. And like White Castle, (see white castle recipe in the ‘recipe’ category) Pizza King has no restaurants here in Arizona. As luck would have it, I nailed this knock off recipe on the first time and have not altered it one bit in 20 years. Twenty years ago, my wife Debbie, while grocery shopping, asked me the simplest question “What sounds good for dinner tonight?”

“Barbeque Pizza” I longingly groaned.

“What?!” she asked with that grossed out look on her face.

I told her my fondness for this pizza and she said “So get the stuff you need and make one… it sounds nasty, but it sounds simple to make.”

So that’s what I did. And like I said, nailed it on the first try. And Debbie changed her mind on the ’sounds nasty’ part too – she loves it!

Pizza King BBQ Pizza

1 tube Jimmy Deans ORIGINAL sausage

½ bottle (aprox.) Bill Johnsons ORIGINAL BBQ sauce

1 tube Pillsbury Pizza Crust

Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

Corse ground corn meal

Cookie sheet sprayed with Pam and slightly sprinkled with the corn meal.

Fry the sausage. Make sure you bust it up nice and fine while you fry it. Drain in a colander and quickly rinse with really hot tap water. (you don’t want all the grease out, but most of it.)

Gently spread out your dough. It’s kind of hard to work with, but be patient and try and spread it out so it’s nice and thin. After it’s spread out nicely, put it in the oven and pre cook it a bit. (375 degrees I think – whatever’s on the directions). Take it out right before it starts to turn color. This is going to make for a nice crunchy crust. . . But watch it like a hawk.

Now instead of pizza sauce, you’re going to use the barbeque sauce. Spread it out evenly, then the sausage, then top with the cheese. Back in the oven and watch it like a hawk. You want the top to be slightly golden brown. Tilt an edge of the pizza and check the bottom as it cooks. If the bottom is browning faster than the top, turn on the broiler and finish it off with that.

If there is no beer in the house, don’t even bother making this pizza. ICE COLD Beer in a frosted mug is a MUST with this pizza. And God bless my brother George, who years and years ago sent me a genuine Pizza King mug. It’s kept in a small padded and red velvet lined compartment in my freezer and it only comes out on BBQ Pizza night. When removed from this holy storage spot, a choir sings a long C note. . . “Ahhhh h h h h. . . .”

Our Comments / Discussions

WarsawNan – No pizza stone? No homemade crust??? Surprising. I make pizza frequently. Will give your recipe a try, but will substitute my own sourdough crust, kick the temp up to 500-degrees, and bake on the pizza stone.

Yeah, pre-made crust and no pizza stone – I know. But really, our site here is about ‘easy’ stuff to cook. Not written in stone or nothing. As far as the ’stone’ goes, I use to have one of those but dropped it and it broke. We had a small prayer service for it and then buried in with a short but eloquent ceremony in the back yard. Using a pizza stone gives you a wonderfully crunchy, more traditional crust like it was baked in a brick oven. BBQ Pizza MUST have thin and crunchy crust.

Dee L. – I LOVE Pizza King BBQ pizza! I thought they used beef though on theirs. Guess that must be the Pizza Huts BBQ. Can you duplicate Pizza Kings Hot Sub Sandwich? I’m counting the days down until May when I go back to Indiana for a visit and can go get one!!!!

OMG, I had forgotten all about the PK HOT Sub Sandwich! They’re fantastic! I want one! I remember watching them being made. They’re made on the same prep line as the pizza’s, with the same ingredients as used on the pizza’s. No sauce, but I think they finish them off with Heroin or something. Pop em’ into the conveyor oven open faced and when they come out they’re browned up beautifully! All the meats give off their nice oils that dissolves the Heroin and soaks into the bread…awesome. (I think they might use the Heroin in that BBQ Pizza too). . . day after day you’ll go back with that craving. . . somebody should do something!

WarsawNan says – Had a pizza party last weekend. Would you believe they don’t HAVE Bill Johnson BBQ sauce here! (Indiana – “the horror…” – Apocalypse Now) WTF!! We substituted Sweet Baby Ray’s on one, and we also went by PK and just bought sides of their BBQ sauce. Both turned out pretty good. During my second pregnancy, there was a PK next door to the school I was going to, and I HAD to eat a PK chef salad every single day for lunch. Couldn’t get enough of them!

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