Loaded with grass-fed beef, sugar-free bacon, raw cheese, and crispy kabocha squash + garnished with pickle chips, iceberg lettuce, chives, and a drizzle of yellow mustard, this Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza is delicious, hearty, and filling.
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Use this recipe (but do not use Italian seasoning).
Shape the dough into flatbread. Mine was a long rectangle with rounded edges. Don't forget to place it on parchment paper. Bake the dough in the oven at 375 degrees for 40 minutes (10 minutes longer than the original recipe due to the shape).
Once the pizza crust is baking in the oven, start on the toppings.
Chop up the bacon into thin slivers (like 1/4 inch x 1 inch).
At medium heat, cook the bacon.
Once the bacon is cooked to your liking, remove it from the pan and place it on a plate to cool.
Add the ground beef to the pan with the bacon fat.
Cook the ground beef in the bacon fat until browned, and salt it to taste.
Set the ground beef aside to rest and cool.
Prepare and make the kabocha squash.
Dice the kabocha squash into 1/2 inch x 1/2 inch pieces.
Place 2-3 tbsp of ghee in your cooking pan and bring to medium-high heat.
Once the pan is hot, add the kabocha squash. As soon as you place the kabocha squash in the pan, rotate it so all pieces are covered with fat. Leave the pieces for 1-2 minutes, until you start to see a brown color creep up the sides of the squash, then rotate the pieces. After that, stir the squash every 30-60 seconds. Kabocha squash burns easily, so don't forget to rotate it. The goal is to get it browned and crispy without burning it. Even just 15-30 seconds too long without rotating the squash can burn it.
When the kabocha squash is done, salt it to taste. Remove it from the pan and place it in a bowl to cool.
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Shred the raw cheese and chop the lettuce and chives.