Leftover garlic bread is transformed into tomorrow's dinner when you make this easy French Bread Pizza! Top with your favorite toppings, this is perfect for pizza night!
Next time try this recipe for CPK BBQ Chicken Pizza!
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Why you'll love this recipe
✔️ This is a great opportunity to repurpose leftovers - big win!
✔️ This is easiest recipe it makes the most delicious pizza bread.
✔️ This is a great option for an easy dinner recipe and a ton tastier than frozen pizza!
Ingredients
For the exact measurements for this delicious french bread pizza, please refer to the printable recipe card at the bottom of this post.
- Large loaf of French bread or a loaf garlic bread - bottom half only
- spaghetti or pizza sauce
- assorted topping of choice - pepperoni slices, cooked Italian sausage, onions, mushrooms, olives, bell peppers.
- Mozzarella cheese
Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. For the complete directions just scroll down to the bottom!
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
- Lay the bread out on a large baking sheet.
- Spread with spaghetti or pizza sauce.
- Add toppings - sliced green peppers, mushrooms and olives. Top with pepperoni and sprinkle with cheese.
- Bake in preheated oven for about 25 minutes until the bread is crunchy and the cheese is ooey, gooey, melted!
Equipment
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FAQ's
You can use French bread, Italian bread, sourdough bread, Naan or garlic bread.
Absolutely, sausage or ground beef should be cooked first before adding it to the pizza bread.
You aren't limited! You can use any toppings that you enjoy on traditional pizza.
Things to know
Use this recipe to make your own homemade pizza sauce, it's actually a marinara sauce, but it totally does double-duty. It's the most flavorful sauce!
If you'd prefer to make the pizza dough, this is my favorite homemade dough recipe.
Variations
Add your favorite pizza toppings!
- add a sprinkle of Italian seasoning or pinch of red pepper flakes for heat.
- caramelized onions
- fresh basil
- sausage
- Canadian bacon and fresh pineapple
- Use this shredded chicken recipe for bbq chicken pizza. Add a few tablespoons of buffalo sauce and turn it into a buffalo chicken pizza.
- Substitute Monterey Jack cheese for the mozzarella - yum!
- Sprinkle on some parmesan cheese - delish!
Storage
Refrigerate - Leftover should be refrigerated. Cover with plastic wrap or place in an airtight container. Refrigerate up to three days.
Reheat - Reheat leftover pizza by placing in the oven at 400 degrees until cheese is melted or by reheating in the air fryer for 4-6 minutes at 400 degrees.
Related recipes
- Vegetarian Pizza Bombs - use marinara a dunker for these little gems!
- Quick, Easy Homemade Pizza - this one uses frozen bread dough and it's delicious!
- Supreme Pizza Soup - all your favorites in a bowl of soup!
- I love quick and easy, like this recipe for Air Fryer Quesadillas - yum!
- Prefer to make your own French bread? Give this French Bread Recipe a try, it's delicious and super easy to. make.
Serve with
Keep it simple and serve your French bread pizza with a caesar salad. Grab a bagged one and dinner will be done!
For dessert this make-ahead Butterscotch Pudding Recipe is amazing, enjoy!
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French Bread Pizza Recipe
Ingredients
- One loaf garlic bread - bottom half only
- 2 cups spaghetti or pizza sauce
- assorted topping of choice - pepperoni sausage, onions, mushrooms, olives, bell peppers - whatever toppings your family prefers.
- 1 cup Mozzarella cheese
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Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees
- Lay the bread out on a cookie sheet, spread with spaghetti or pizza sauce. Spread toppings on liberally and top with cheese. Bake in preheated oven for about 25 minutes until the bread is crunchy and the cheese is ooey, gooey, melted!
Nutrition
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Ok....I hesitate calling this a recipe, so it's more of a "what to do you when have leftover bread & spaghetti sauce" kinda thing.
You know....when you're too busy, too tired, don't feel like cooking or sick with a cold (yes, still fighting it!) day. I'm sure you can relate to at least one of these right? It's been almost two weeks and I'm finally coming up for air, ugh!
Anyway this is a great meal when you want to be lazy or it's just the two of you. We enjoy having a slice of bread with dinner, but rarely eat the whole loaf.
And I don't know about you, but with the price of food, I hate throwing away food.
When I do purchase a loaf of bread, we'll eat the top half and save the bottom for pizza bread - a little leftover sauce - about two cups will do it, and then just pile on the fixings.
What are your favorite toppings? Here we used onions, mushrooms, pepperoni, red peppers and some cheese. Into the oven it went at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes.
The key is to get the bread super crunchy, because it's so thick.
My Mom used to make this for us when we were kids. You can make loaded pizzas or keep it veggie - whatever your family prefers. Plus you don't have to go thru the hassle of making dough.
This is a super easy 30 minute meal!
Lois
I love this. So good.
Bowl Me Over
We’ve been making it for years haven’t we?!! Delicious!
Lois
This is soooo good. A fun dinner to make and very easy. Give it a try
Bowl Me Over
Thank you Lois, I’m so glad you love it as much as we do1
Healing Tomato
Pizza and bread! That is the perfect comfort food recipe. Looks really good.
Bowl Me Over
A great combination, right? Thank you so much Rini!
Prairie Gal Cookin
Oh this looks so yummy.. Thanks so much for linking up on Sunday's Simple Homemaker!
Bowl Me Over
Love that pizza bread - thanks for stopping by Ashleigh!
Sabrina
This looks like a great easy dinner to put together! Thanks for the idea!
Bowl Me Over
You are very welcome Sabrina, have a great day!
Michelle @ The Complete Savorist
I feel the same way about wasting food. Do you remember what brand of mozzarella cheese you used? It looks really good.
Bowl Me Over
Yes I do because I was using up that too - I had some little BelGioioso snacking cheese, I had three bundles left and I cut them in half and just dotted them here and there, I couldn't believe how well that melted, great cheese!
Christie
What a great idea. We had spaghetti and meatballs last night and of course garlic bread. This will be a fun way to change up the leftovers.
Bowl Me Over
There you go! I hope you give it a try Christie!!
Citra Kale @Citra's Home Diary
this is absolutely my choice when I run out time to prepare dinner...simple but looks delicious
Bowl Me Over
Thank you Citra!
Lois
Great idea. I forgot that we used to do that. So good. So easy.
Bowl Me Over
Nice little shortcut for when you don't want to cook!