Copy Cat School Lunch Pizza
Вставка
- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Hey friends, here’s a throwback from the 80s and 90s… School lunch pizza! This was such a fun recipe to try and it tasted just like we remembered.
School Lunch Pizza
Crust
2 1/2 tsp active dry yeast
1 2/3 cup warm water
2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup nonfat dry milk
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 tsp salt
1 1/2 teaspoons vegetable oil, plus some for greasing the pan
1 1/2 tablespoons cornmeal
Toppings
5 teaspoons minced dried onion
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
2 teaspoons dried basil
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 1/2 teaspoons dried marjoram
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
6 oz can of tomato paste
1 1/3 cups water
5 cups shredded mozzarella
*I used Italian seasoning instead of all the herbs above. This contains all of them without having to buy each herb separately.
Optional: ground beef
Crust
Preheat the oven to 475°F
Stir the yeast into the warm water and let it sit for 5 minutes.
Combine the flour, dry milk, sugar, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer.
Add the yeast mixture and the vegetable oil and mix on medium speed for 10 minutes.
Coat a sheet pan with oil and sprinkle on cornbread. Spread the pourable dough on the sheet pan. Bake for 10 minutes.
Sauce
In a saucepan, whisk tomato paste and water. Add all seasonings. Simmer for about 10 minutes.
Once the crust is out of the oven, sprinkle about one cup of cheese over the crust. Then spread on the pizza sauce. Sprinkle the remaining cheese, making sure to reach each edge.
Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, or until it cheese starts to brown.
For that authentic School lunch Pizza look… Slice in eight rectangular slices.
#SchoolLunch #SchoolLunchPizza #HomemadePizza #GenX #GenerationX #Nostalgia #Nostalgic #NostalgicRecipe #Copycat #CopycatRecipe 
This looks great! I don’t remember having this as I usually had a brown bag/lunch box lunch. My school years were 1961-1973…maybe that’s why!?😂
This was one of 2 meals I would actually buy in high school! Ours was like an octagon shape tho and I think they put cheddar cheese on it. Soooo good! Thanks William for asking Sarah to make this! I have the same stand mixer and I love mine too! I'm gonna have to try this recipe! 😊
I think I’m gonna make the crust again, but buy a pizza sauce and maybe put some pepperoni on it. We all really liked it.
I'm loving the copycat recipes! This one is my fave so far! When I was in high school, in the 80s, pizza day was the only day I ate in the cafeteria... so good!! We usually had brownies for dessert with the pizza.. so maybe do a copycat lunch lady brownies? Yum! Thanks for sharing this and all your videos!
And I can't leave without a shout out to William... GO CHIEFS! ❤️💛🏈
Thank you! Go Chiefs!
GEN X'ers! Yes, we had this similar pizza growing up the 1980s. Our bread was a little thicker and lighter and it was called "pizza boats" because the edges did curve up a bit. We had it with iceburg lettuce salad and canned pears. Delicious!
Always the canned pears…😂😂
This is too funny! Im the generation before square pizza in school. We had Mock Pizza. They used white bread with hamburger, sauce and cheese. My kids generation had Papa John’s pizza in their school cafeteria. Wonder what this newest generation has. lol!
Mock pizza sounds like something we would do as kids when we really wanted pizza.
I was in high school in the early 80s and our pizza was hexagon shape! I loved it! And we had Mickey Mouse ice cream on a stick! Here's an idea for a future copycat recipe: there's a restaurant in Atlanta called the Varsity, and they have the most wonderful drink called a Frosted Orange. I would love to have that recipe! Thanks for your great videos!!!
My sister and her husband live in Northern Georgia, and we have actually been to the varsity in Atlanta! I will have to try to make the Frosted Orange. What’ll ya have!
@@GuilkeysLimitedAdventures Wow, it really is a small world! I can't wait to see your recipe!!!
I love this. I am a school food service director of a PreK -12 school district. We have 1 high school and 6 elementary schools. Ask a child, I loved school pizza too. You made it look easy to make that crust. ❤
Then I’m sure you’ve seen how school lunches have evolved through the years. I remember getting our mashed potatoes served with an ice cream scoop and yellowish colored chicken gravy. But I loved it lol
I don't have fond memories of school lunch pizza. I think because it wasn't anything like what I got at home or at Domino's! But I might have to try this recipe on my kids, because a crust that I can just pour in the pan sounds like something that would easily convert to GF for us. Fun copycat!
Yeah, that crust was way easier than a regular pizza crust. I’m definitely gonna make it again but with my favorite jar pizza sauce.😂
We even had school pizza on the 70s! Ours had sliced hotdog rounds ... or at least, it resembled hotdogs. I remember it being pretty decent, unlike the teriyaki burgers which were ick
Oh, that reminds me of when I was a kid and we would make hotdog pizzas on white bread and just thinking about it now… eww.