Reuben Pizza

St Patrick’s Day is over. Now what to do with the leftover Corned Beef? This Reuben Pizza will make you forget you’re eating leftovers.

When I made this pizza, it was 9pm and I was just getting home from work. By 9:30pm I was eating my pizza. So it really doesn’t take very long if the prep work has already been done.

Unfortunately, I was a bit tired after working all day so I forgot to take pictures of each individual step. So you’ll just have to use your imagination a little while I describe the process of making it.

First of all, the pizza dough was already made and had been in the freezer. So before I left for work in the morning, I transferred 1 ball of dough to the refrigerator to thaw while I was gone.

I have published the recipe I use before but now you can find a separate post so it will be easily accessible without looking it up within another recipe. So look for the pizza dough recipe under the pizza category. Today I just made a small pizza so I only used 1/2 pound of pizza dough. If I had wanted a large size pizza, I would have used a pound of dough.

I rolled out the dough on a floured surface and placed it on a rimless cookie sheet sprinkled with cornmeal for easy transfer to the pizza stone once the pizza was assembled.

Then I made a “Thousand Island” dressing from scratch using 1/2 cup mayo,4 Tbsp ketchup,1 Tbsp horseradish (adjust the amount of horseradish to your own taste), 2 Tbsp sweet pickles chopped, and 1 Tbsp mustard. This step is not necessary, You can use bottled dressing from the store. It’s just that I so rarely use thousand island dressing on anything but a reuben that it seemed silly to buy a whole bottle that probably wouldn’t get used. So I made my own.

Once the dough was rolled out and on the cookie sheet, I topped it with the dressing, shredded cooked corned beef, sauerkraut, and shredded swiss cheese.

Since all the ingredients were already premade (except the dressing), it really didn’t take long to put this together. Then I slid it onto the preheated pizza stone. It only took about 10 minutes to cook so dinner was ready in no more than 30 minutes from my arrival home. Which was great because I was famished by that time of night!