French Bread Pizza
French bread pizza brings family and friends together over homemade pizza made in minutes!
Servings: 8 servings
Equipment
- Sheet pan
- serrated bread knife
Ingredients
- 1 lb loaf of French bread (baguette style)
- 4 Tbsp soft butter
- granulated garlic or garlic powder (you can also used fresh garlic)
- 1 cup pizza sauce, more or less to taste.
- 12 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese (you can also use a blend of Italian cheeses.)
topping ideas
- mushrooms, sliced
- pineapple and ham
- anchovies and banana peppers
- olives and slivered red onion
- jalapeño and pimentos
- cherry tomatoes and basil
- sausage and bell peppers
- pepperoni
- Italian herb seasoning
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F
- Using a serrated bread knife, slice a fresh loaf of French bread in half crosswise. Then slice each half in half lengthwise, to make 4 flat bases for your pizzas. Don’t slice your bread until ready to make your pizzas so it doesn’t dry out.
- Spread soft butter over your bread. Sprinkle your bread with granulated garlic, (or an Italian herb blend.) Toast this for 5 minutes in a hot 400F oven. This step is important. Toasting the bread will provide a barrier to the pizza sauce to prevent sogginess. Alternatively you can scrape the cut side of a garlic clove across the toasted bread for a nice hint of garlic.
- Spread sauce across the tops of your bread. Don't add too much, just a thin layer. You can skip this if you like.
- Add lots of cheese to the bread. I like to mound it up because it will shrink down as it melts.
- Now place your toppings on the cheese, press them in slightly so they don't fall off.
- Bake for about 10-15 minutes at 400F. We’re just looking to get everything nice and bubbly and browned.
- Slice and serve!
Nutrition
Calories: 320 kcal · Carbohydrates: 32 g · Protein: 17 g · Fat: 14 g · Saturated Fat: 8 g · Polyunsaturated Fat: 1 g · Monounsaturated Fat: 4 g · Trans Fat: 0.2 g · Cholesterol: 42 mg · Sodium: 795 mg · Potassium: 195 mg · Fiber: 2 g · Sugar: 4 g · Vitamin A: 512 IU · Vitamin C: 2 mg · Calcium: 368 mg · Iron: 3 mg
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. This information comes from online calculators. Although The View from Great Island attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, these figures are only estimates.
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