French Bread Pizza

Name: French Bread Pizzas
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 200 g Granary French bread stick (cut in half then sliced down the middle); 0.5 Courgette (halved lengthways then sliced); 4 Mushrooms (sliced); 0.5 Red pepper (diced); 40 g Mature cheddar cheese; 8 tbsp Tomato puree; Oregano and black pepper

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For those moments when a pizza craving hits and you want something quick and easy, without having to call out for one to be delivered, we give you French Bread Vegetable Pizzas. Stacked with healthier toppings and a crunchy crust, these are ready in almost an instant.

French bread pizzas on a serving board with grated cheese scattered around.

One thing everyone around the world has in common is a love of pizza. You can visit any major city and you will see a pizza restaurant or someone selling slices at the side of the street. The reason is, there is so much that you can do with a humble slice of pizza and its toppings.

We have gone all out with the vegetables in this one, and it's so easy to adapt too. Whilst we love making homemade pizza dough, when a pizza craving hits and we want something quick, we make these French Bread Pizzas.

Just cut open a French stick, add a tomato sauce and load with vegetables and cheese.

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Why should you try it?

Ready in 10 minutes
Great to get kids involved with making
Only 175 calories per pizza
Good way to use up French bread

What you will need

French stick - Cut in half and then down the middle so you have 4 pieces. This is your pizza base.
Courgette, mushrooms and red bell pepper - Your toppings.
Grated cheese - We used a mature cheddar as the strong flavour means you don't need as much.
Tomato puree (paste) - The pizza sauce.
Oregano and black pepper - For an authentic Italian taste.

A french baguette, red pepper, mushrooms, courgette, cheese and tomato puree on a wooden surface.

Step by step

One: Slice the French stick in to 4 pieces.

A French Bread stick cut into four long pieces.

Two: Add 2 tablespoon of tomato puree to each piece of French stick.

Four pieces of sliced French Bread spread with tomato paste.

Three: Top with the vegetables and cheese and then a sprinkle of oregano and black pepper.

Four pieces of sliced French Bread topped wit htomato paste and sliced vegetable.

Four: Put under the grill for 10 minutes.

Is this healthy?

What's so healthy about these pizzas? Well, not a whole lot, but the word "healthy" is subjective. The HHH blog is all about making healthier choices, not being perfect and these are loaded with vegetables and lighter on the cheese.

Any time you make a healthier alternative yourself, you have control over the ingredients, which instantly can make it healthier. When making these, we go with the best quality ingredients that we can get out hands on, so that means a good quality tomato paste, a strong mature cheddar and fresh crisp veggies.

We topped ours with courgette (zucchini), mushrooms, red pepper and finished with a little mature cheddar, but you can, of course, use any topping you like.

We get pizza cravings more than we would like to admit and whilst we do order a pizza every now and then, it's not as much as we would like, because, ya know, all the grease, crazy amount of calories and stuff.

Sliced French bread topped with vegetables and cheese.

One thing you can do with these to make them lower in calories and more vitamin packed, is to scoop out the bready insides so there is a deeper hole and not only do you have less bread and carbs, but you have more space to add vegetable toppings. Let's face it, pizza is all about the toppings anyway, for us at least.

Is it quick?

The best thing about these pizzas is that they only take 10 minutes to cook under the grill (broiler). Great thing for a quick and easy lunch or prepare the toppings ahead of time and you can throw one of these together after a night out, so you don't have to order a pizza.

FAQs

Is French bread pizza good for kids?

Kids will absolutely love these pizzas! Not only will they like not having to wait very long for them to be ready, but they can have fun making them too.
Get the bread ready and slice up all the toppings, and then you can let them build their own pizza. That way, everyone gets a flavour topping that they want.

Extra tips

Get kids involved in making these by having the bread and toppings all prepared and letting them build their own pizza.
This is a great opportunity to use up leftovers, so use any vegetables and cheese that need using up. Chopped spinach would be a great addition to this.
Make these lower in calories by scooping out the bread insides and loading it with more vegetables.

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