French Bread Pizza
Using French bread to make the pizza crust, with these steps will ensure you have a delicious, crispy crust that you can customize with your favorite toppings.
Servings: 14 pieces
Calories: 210kcal
Ingredients
- 4 Tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 loaf french bread
- 14 ounces pizza sauce You more than likely won't use all of this but you can use the extra sauce for dipping.
- 4 cups shredded mozzarella
Toppings Used in This Recipe - Amounts Vary Based on Preference
- pepperoni cut in to fourths to make triangles
- canadian bacon cut in to small triangles
- "meat lovers" cooked bacon and sausage crumbles found in the frozen section (warmed in microwave before adding to pizza)
- black olives sliced
- green pepper
- Italian dressing seasoning packet optional for pizza topping flavor
Instructions
- Melt butter and garlic powder together in the microwave.
- Cut bread in half, lengthwise and brush on melted garlic butter on to each slice of bread. (You may not use all of this and you can set aside any remaining to use later.)
- Bake at 450 for 4 minutes. This is key to keeping the bread toasty instead of getting soggy.
- Top baked bread with about 1 ½ cups of pizza sauce - dividing the sauce between the two. (This will more than likely be little less than a 14 ounce jar of pasta sauce, and you can save the rest for dipping.)
- Top each piece of sauced bread with 2 cups of cheese and favorite toppings.(We did one half of bread with cheese and pepperoni and the other half with the remaining topping ingredients listed above.)
- Bake at 450 for 6-7 minutes or until cheese has melted and is a nice golden brown. TIP: For a golden brown cheese, you may want to turn the oven to "broil" and watch carefully as it can turn golden brown, quickly!
- If desired, sprinkle on a little of the Italian dressing seasoning packet for added flavor.
- Slice french bread in to 1-2 inch pieces.
- Warm and use any leftover pizza sauce as marinara sauce for dipping the slices.
Nutrition
Serving: 3pieces | Calories: 210kcal | Carbohydrates: 17g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 11g | Saturated Fat: 6g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 34mg | Sodium: 533mg | Potassium: 145mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 439IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 182mg | Iron: 2mg
