Here’s my decadent tomato and mozzarella pizza bread recipe. This is such an easy appetizer or a quick lunch idea for you to try out soon! Oh how I like a homemade and healthy fast food bite from time to time!
Oh sure!
Because this simple and easy homemade pizza bread is good proof that fast food doesn’t always have to be unhealthy. Bread, freshly homemade tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and olives.
What’s not to love!
I know, I know.
Homemade Tomato Sauce
Of course it would have been far more easier to just open a jar of ready store bought spaghetti sauce and smear that on the baguette. I agree, there’s nothing wrong with that if you don’t find the time to make your own tomato sauce from scratch.
But let’s make this one as healthy as we can today.
By the way, I love to make delicious and simple tomato sauces from scratch at home. It is so easy to make. What you need are fresh tomatoes and garlic of course. And some chopped onion.
Because I like the crunch that the onion gives this pizza bread anyway.
Easy Mozzarella & Pizza Bread Recipe
I am not quite sure how I came up with this pizza bread recipe idea.
There’s this little backpacker’s restaurant in town here we used to go to quite often before we moved to Spain. And there you could order these huge sandwiches for lunch. You know, those round and thick Turkish breads. Sliced in half and stuffed with ingredients such as chicken, sun dried tomatoes, feta cheese and so on.
Pretty sure that I must have had the idea there to make an open faced sandwich and grill it. Hence the pizza bread!
Lunch or Appetizer Bite
Serve the pizza bread recipe as a creative lunch idea!
Or slice it up and use it as an appetizer for your next dinner party!
Do you love this bread pizza?
Then also check out my tomato pizza from scratch for more inspiration!
Enjoy!
Easy Mozzarella & Pizza Bread Recipe
My decadent tomato and mozzarella pizza bread recipe: an easy appetizer or quick lunch. I like a homemade fast food bite from time to time!
- ½ ciabatta or French baguette
- a handful mozzarella shredded
- 2 medium fresh tomatoes chopped
- 1 small onion chopped
- 2 tsp tomato paste
- 1 tbsp worcester sauce
- 1 medium garlic clove chopped
- 4 slices salami
- 8 black olives pitted
- a handful capers in brine
- olive oil
- pepper
- salt
- Add a little olive oil to a medium saucepan and place this over medium heat until hot. Then add the chopped onion and garlic.
- Cook it gently for 2 minutes. Clean and trim the tomatoes. Cut 4 very thin slices out of one tomato (that is for garnish later) and chop the rest of that tomato and the second tomato up. Add them to the cooked onion in the saucepan.
- Stir well and reduce the heat. Put a lid on the pan and let the tomatoes simmer and fall apart for about 10 minutes. Stir well and season with pepper, the worcester sauce and the tomato paste.
- Stir well again. The sauce should be chunky. Check the seasoning and add extra pepper or salt to taste if necessary. Then take the tomato sauce off the heat and let it cool a little. Slice the ciabatta or baguette in half and spread the tomato sauce generously on both sides. Top with the finely sliced tomato.
- Slice the salami up and sprinkle this together with the shredded mozzarella on top of the tomato sauce.
- Slice the blac olives finely and sprinkle them together with the salted capers on top of the pizza bread. Season with a pinch of pepper and salt.
- Bake the pizza breads under a preheated grill for a couple of minutes until the mozzarella has melted nicely and the bread is crunchy and golden. Serve the pizza bread immediately while still hot.
