Easy Pizza Bread
Pizza Bread – delish!
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 HATE seeing things going to waste (only to waist right?! 😀 ). 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 – like this!
Use the bottom half of the loaf because it will sit securely on the pan without tipping over. I’m sure you could use the top also if you leveled out the bottom with a knife, but this is just so easy!
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 – super easy 30 minute meal.
More tasty pizza – Vegetarian Pizza Bombs!
Easy Pizza Bread #30MinuteMeal
Ingredients
- One loaf garlic bread - bottom half only
- 2 cups spaghetti or pizza sauce
- Assorted toppings - pepperoni sausage, onions, mushrooms, olives, bell peppers - whatever toppings your family prefers.
- 1 cup Mozzarella cheese
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
Gotta love that!
Lois says
Great idea. I forgot that we used to do that. So good. So easy.
Bowl Me Over says
Nice little shortcut for when you don’t want to cook!
Citra Kale @Citra's Home Diary says
this is absolutely my choice when I run out time to prepare dinner…simple but looks delicious
Bowl Me Over says
Thank you Citra!
Christie says
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 says
There you go! I hope you give it a try Christie!!
Michelle @ The Complete Savorist says
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 says
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!
Sabrina says
This looks like a great easy dinner to put together! Thanks for the idea!
Bowl Me Over says
You are very welcome Sabrina, have a great day!
Prairie Gal Cookin says
Oh this looks so yummy.. Thanks so much for linking up on Sunday’s Simple Homemaker!
Bowl Me Over says
Love that pizza bread – thanks for stopping by Ashleigh!
Healing Tomato says
Pizza and bread! That is the perfect comfort food recipe. Looks really good.
Bowl Me Over says
A great combination, right? Thank you so much Rini!
Lois says
This is soooo good. A fun dinner to make and very easy. Give it a try
Bowl Me Over says
Thank you Lois, I’m so glad you love it as much as we do1
Lois says
I love this. So good.
Bowl Me Over says
We’ve been making it for years haven’t we?!! Delicious!