French Bread Pizza
This easy French bread pizza recipe has gooey mozzarella cheese, spicy pepperoni, and fresh green peppers over a deliciously crusty Italian bread with our homemade pizza sauce.
Servings: 6
Ingredients
Pizza sauce
- 15 oz. can tomato sauce
- 6 oz. tomato paste
- ¼ cup Italian seasoning
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Pizza
- 1 loaf Italian bread sliced in half lengthwise
- 2 cups shredded pizza cheese mix or 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese and 1 cup shredded parmesan cheese
- 4 oz. mini pepperoni*
- 1 large green pepper diced
Instructions
- Add the tomato sauce, tomato paste, Italian seasoning, and sugar to a small saucepan and whisk to combine. Bring the sauce to a gentle boil over medium/high heat. Reduce the heat to simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Preheat the oven to 375ºF and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Place each half of the Italian bread crust side down on the baking sheet. Spread ½ cup of pizza sauce evenly over each half of the bread. Evenly sprinkle ½ cup of cheese over the top of the sauce and then place ½ the pepperoni and diced pepper on top of the cheese of both halves. Finish by adding the remaining cheese sprinkled over the top of both halves of the pizza.
- Bake it for 15 minutes. Check the pizza, and if the edges of the bread are golden brown and the cheese is melted, it’s done. If not, bake for another 5 minutes.
- Remove the pizza from the oven and let it rest for 5 minutes before slicing and serving.
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Notes
- You can switch up the toppings and cheese for this recipe to your favorite pizza toppings.
- You can use normal-size pepperoni, too but it will take up more room on the pizza.
- We used an Italian loaf of bread, but you can use any baked loaf of bread other than a french baguette; those tend to be a bit too skinny.
Nutrition
Calories: 681kcal | Carbohydrates: 53g | Protein: 20g | Fat: 44g | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 31g