Looking for a a laugh, clean twist on homemade pizza? skip the dough and use frozen garlic bread rather. Taking gain of a grocery shop staple, this playful mash-up guarantees the saucy tacky goodness of your favourite pizza, all atop a terrific-tender, garlic buttery base. Crusts will never be thrown out again.
Baking the garlic bread before including the pizza toppings guarantees a crispy base and most garlicky flavor from the bread’s signature topping, even as broiling the crowned pizza mimics the high warmness of a expert pizza oven, generating crispy pepperoni and effervescent caramelized cheese.
Why are we making our own pizza sauce?
Pretty simply, most save-bought pizza sauce isn’t tremendous, and when a dish is frequently composed of three things (garlic bread, sauce, and cheese), it’s worth a touch extra attempt to make certain all 3 components are as delicious as viable. This pizza sauce recipe takes 30 minutes, and whilst it makes extra sauce which you’ll need for this recipe, you may keep the more within the refrigerator for up to every week (’til the next pizza night!) or freeze it for destiny use.
We tested this recipe with a 10-ounce loaf of frozen garlic bread, however you can absolutely use a sparkling deli-made garlic bread loaf. You’ll probably need to alter the preliminary cooking time on the garlic bread—it need to be crispy on the bottom and aspects however now not tough before you pinnacle it. And if your loaf is a complete pound, you’ll need nearer to three/four cup pizza sauce and 1 2/three cups mozzarella to present your pizzas that perfect even topping.
Step by step instructions for making delicious bread pizza
Step 1
Preheat oven to 425°. On a large baking sheet, arrange bread halves garlic side up.
Step 2
Bake bread until warmed through and crisp on the sides and bottom, 9 to 11 minutes.
Step 3
Spread each garlic bread half with 1/4 cup pizza sauce. Top with mozzarella, then pepperoni and Parmesan.
Step 4
Heat broiler. Broil bread until cheese is bubbling and browned, 3 to 5 minutes.
Step 5
Top with red pepper flakes, if using. Slice and serve.
