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French Bread Pizza combines my two loves: French Bread and Pizza all in one easy dinner! Crunchy and delicious, this easy pizza recipe has your favorite toppings and is the easiest way to make pizza at home in no time at all!
We love that making French Bread Pizza easy and fast – no yeast required. It’s the perfect last minute easy dinner recipe, especially if you have leftover bread or if you want to use the second loaf in my two loaf homemade French Bread Recipe! We top it with our favorite toppings! Make it soft or extra crunchy – your choice!!
Ingredient Notes
- French Bread: use any kind you like, but it’s best to get a long loaf of french bread, not a round one.
- Sauce: I’ll talk about this in variations, but you need some sort of pizza sauce. I love my homemade no-cook pizza sauce but you can also use marinara sauce.
- Cheese: Mozzarella, of course! I recommend shredding your own cheese for optimal melting. (Packaged shredded cheese is coated to keep it fresh, and sometimes it doesn’t melt as well because of that.)
Variations
Making pizza is so easy and fun to try different variations for ANY time of day. I’m sharing delicious variations on how to easily switch up this one homemade pizza recipe. Use your favorite pizza toppings!
- Hawaiian Pizza: use pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese, top with ham and pineapple and bacon.
- Pesto: use pesto instead of sauce, top with mozzarella and your favorite toppings.
- BBQ Chicken: use BBQ sauce and mozzarella, then top with sliced red onions and leftover chicken.
- Breakfast French Bread Pizza: skip the sauce and top with scrambled eggs, sausage or bacon and cheddar cheese.
- Top your pizza with any veggies you like, bell peppers, tomatoes, olives, etc. Or even fresh basil, oregano, or parsley.
How to make French Bread Pizza
- Slice: slice French bread loaf in half horizontally. Just cut carefully so you don’t end up with it thick at one end and skinny at the other.
- Sauce: spread the pizza sauce all over the french bread. You can use my homemade pizza sauce for this recipe.
- Toppings: add cheese and your favorite toppings.
- Bake: Place the French bread pizza on a large baking sheet and bake at 400°F. Once the French bread is toasted and the cheese is melted, about 10-15 minutes.
FAQs
I bake mine about 10-15 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and the bread is toasted.
Store leftovers in the refrigerator in an airtight container.
If you want to keep it crunchy, you should reheat leftovers in the oven at 400°F. Or you can use a toaster oven or air fryer. You can also reheat in the microwave, but it will be soft, not crunchy.
French Bread Pizza Recipe
Recipe Video
Ingredients
- 1 loaf French Bread
- 1/2 cup pizza sauce
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- Assorted Toppings
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a cookie sheet with foil for easy cleanup.
- Slice the french bread in half horizontally. Place both halves face up on prepared cookie sheet.
- If you don't want the sauce to soak into the bread (this is personal preference) you want to bake the bread a few minutes before adding the toppings. Brush each half lightly with olive oil and bake for about 3-4 minutes (just until the top is a little bit light golden; when touched it should be crusty but not over done.
- Spread sauce evenly over bread. Top with cheese and toppings.
- Bake 10-15 minutes, or until cheese is melted and bread is somewhat toasted.
- Slice and serve hot. Store leftovers in refrigerator.
Recipe Notes
Topping Ideas:
- Pepperoni, salami, sausage
- Olives, mushrooms, peppers, onions
- Ham, pineapple
- Reheat pizza in the oven or using a toaster oven or air fryer to keep leftovers crunchy.
Recipe Nutrition
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This is the perfect easy 30 minute meal or Friday night dinner – use your favorite toppings. My kids love this!
