The Powerhouse Breakfast Item You Should Add To Frozen Pizza

Call us basic, but we absolutely love a good frozen pizza. Not only have we ranked frozen pizza brands exhaustively to determine our favorite grocery store pies, but we've been experimenting with ways to upgrade this "no effort required" meal to make it extraordinary. From playing around with how to upgrade frozen pizza crust with a generous slathering of butter to piling on aftermarket toppings, there's no limit to how we'll doctor our 'za in the quest to attain pizza nirvana. As home chefs, customizing pizza falls squarely at the intersection of culinary science and foodie creativity, which are two things we can't get enough of.

Our latest obsession? Cooking eggs on frozen pizza. While pepperoni, Canadian bacon, and diced ham are quintessential pizza toppings, an egg with a gooey yolk is an unexpected and delightful protein addition. It tastes great and, when you cut into it, the yolk spreads over the top of the pizza to create a succulent sauce that you will be chasing with your crusts. We've seen fried eggs on burgers, avocado toast, or even beans and rice and, naturally, we love eating them at breakfast. The beauty of eggs on pizza, however, is a twofold thing: it's super easy to pull off in one easy cooking process, and it lends itself to all sorts of additional tweaks that can lead to the pizza of your dreams. Once you've mastered this hack, it's unlikely that you'll ever hit up the Domino's app again.

Cooking an egg on your frozen pie is as simple as cracking an egg on top before putting the pizza in the oven, but a little fine-tuning can really elevate your experience. Does your pizza have a long cooking time? Social media suggests that you might do well to bake the pizza by itself for a few minutes before adding the eggs so that they don't overcook. If you are cooking your pizza at a very high heat and your eggs are not too big, you may even be able to get away with simply cracking your eggs atop the piping-hot pie and letting carryover cooking do the work. Feel free to adjust your cooking procedure based on how set you want the eggs to be. Another pro tip is to use the bowl of a spoon to hollow out a little divot in the surface of the pizza for the egg to cozy into.

What pizza you use for your egg-cellent creation is up to you. A meat-lover's pie would sing with an egg on top, as would a basic margherita, we think. But why let the freezer aisle dictate your meal? Broil some extra cheese as a finishing step, or when your eggy pizza is cooked, pile it high with greens or pan-fried veg to increase the freshness factor. We also love to add smoky Tapatío hot sauce to frozen pizza, and doubly so when eggs are involved.