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French Bread Pizzas
The fastest way to get tasty pizza on your table. A fun dinner or sliced up, great as party food. A super easy recipe to scale up as needed to feed lots of people at once.
Servings: 2
: 597 kcal
Author: Just Jo
Ingredients
  • 1 baguette a bit stale is just fine
For the tomato sauce
  • 1 400 g can whole plum tomatoes*
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 1 clove of garlic minced
  • Sea salt and black pepper to taste
For the toppings
  • 6 slices of salami
  • 1 baby pepper capsicum or bell, thinly sliced
  • 2 spring onions finely chopped
  • 4 cherry tomatoes halved if large
  • 3 tbsp grated mozzarella
  • A generous grating of parmesan
Instructions
  1. Preheat the grill to high and set the oven shelf with about 3-4 inches spare (too close and the pizzas will burn).
  2. Slice your baguette lengthwise and if necessary, cut a bit off the bottom so they lay flat on your baking tray. Pop under the grill if they are very fresh for barely 2 minutes to crispen them up a little, not colour them - this means the tomato sauce wont make them soggy.
  3. Now I get lazy here and use clean kitchen scissors to chop up the tomatoes which I drain in a fine meshed sieve. Sprinkle on the oregano, add the garlic and season then mix lightly and share between the two lightly toasted (or slightly stale) baguettes.
  4. Follow with your toppings - mine are suggestions more than anything so feel free to add or subtract whatever you like. Just remember the pizzas will cook super fast so you don't want thickly sliced veg which won't cook quick enough or any raw meat products. Leftover roast chicken, slices of roast beef, canned tuna - all good ideas!
  5. Finish by sharing the mozzarella between the two pizzas and then grate over a good coating of parmesan.
  6. Pop under the grill for approximately 5 -7 minutes until the cheese is blistered and bubbling.
  7. Serve with a nice big side salad.
Recipe Notes

* = you really do want to use whole canned tomatoes as the ready chopped ones are too watery for this fresh sauce.
Of course, the toppings are infinitely customisable to your preferences or simply to what you have left in your fridge!