Try endless combinations of your favorite pizza toppings on crisp French baguettes with pillow-soft centers.
Ingredients
- 2 La Brea Bakery Demi French Baguettes
- ½ cup pizza sauce
- 1 cup mozzarella cheese, shredded
Additional Topping Ideas
- Bocconcini (fresh mozzarella)
- Pepperoni
- Prosciutto
- Bacon, cooked
- Eggs
- Broccolini, lightly blanched
- Lemon, thinly sliced
- Fresh baby spinach
- Marinated artichokes
- Green olives
- Pickled spicy chili peppers, sliced into rings
- Caramelized onions
- Fresh mushrooms
- Roasted garlic cloves
- Purple sweet potato, blanched and thinly sliced
- Fresh basil
- Dried oregano
- Crushed red pepper flakes
Preparation
Prepare the Bread:
- Toast bread in a preheated oven according to package directions. Remove baked baguettes from the oven and allow them to cool. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- When the baguettes are cool enough to handle, about 10 minutes, slice each baguette lengthwise and lay flat on the baking sheet. You may need to trim small pieces from the top side of each baguette to ensure they lay flat.
Assemble Pizzas:
- Increase the oven temperature to 400°F. Rub the cut sides of each baguette with a clove of garlic. For pizzas with tomato sauce, spread 2 tablespoons of pizza sauce on each piece of bread.
- Bake the assembled pizzas for 10 to 12 minutes, until the cheese is melted and golden brown in spots. Remove from the oven and garnish with fresh basil, oregano, crushed red pepper, and/or salt and pepper. Serve immediately.
Top pizzas with whatever toppings you like. The pizzas pictured are as follows:
- Shredded mozzarella cheese, fresh cherry tomatoes, garnish with fresh basil
- Pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese, spicy pepperoni, hot pickled peppadew peppers
- Shredded mozzarella cheese, bacon, egg yolk
- Fresh baby spinach, sliced bocconcini mozzarella, marinated artichokes, green olives
- Smashed roasted garlic, sliced bocconcini mozzarella, broccolini, lemon
- Caramelized onions, shredded mozzarella cheese, cremini, oyster and shiitake mushrooms, fresh thyme
- Pizza sauce, bocconcini mozzarella
- Shredded mozzarella, roasted garlic cloves, purple sweet potato, purple kale
Recipe adapted from The Delicious Life
