It’s often so much easier to root around in the freezer for a bite to eat than making something from scratch. To avoid any extra stress, we usually end up digging out a frozen pizza and sticking that in the oven for dinner. But it’s time to stop — making your own pizza baguettes is actually dead simple.
Pizza Baguette
Ingredients
- 1 baguette
- 3 tbsp butter for herb butter
- 1 garlic clove chopped up, for herb butter
- 1 tbsp oregano for herb butter
- 1 tbsp chopped parsley for herb butter
- 14 oz crushed tomatoes for pizza sauce
- salt and pepper to taste, for pizza sauce
- 1 tsp chili flakes for pizza sauce
- sugar to taste, for pizza sauce
- 1 tsp oregano for pizza sauce
- 1 tbsp olive oil for pizza sauce
- 6.3 oz grated mozzarella for topping
- 2.6 oz grated parmesan for topping
- 2.4 oz diced salami for topping
- 4 tbsp cream cheese for topping
- 1 tbsp chopped basil for topping
Instructions
- Cut the baguette in half horizontally and divide it into three pieces.
- Melt the butter in a pan and fry the garlic for a short time. Add the oregano and parsley. Spread the herb butter on all of the baguette pieces and bake them at 355°F for seven minutes in a convection oven.
- While the baguettes are baking, prepare the pizza sauce. Fill a large jug with the ingredients and puree them. Spread the pizza sauce on all of the baked baguettes.
- Sprinkle mozzarella and parmesan on all of the baguettes. Add the salami cubes to two of the baguettes, while two others get a generous helping of cream cheese. Bake the baguettes again at 355°F for 15 minutes. To finish, sprinkle some basil on the two baguettes that were only garnished with mozzarella and parmesan.
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While the herb butter and tomato sauce always form the base, you can change the topping as you wish (or depending on what’s left in the fridge). Here’s a useful tip: make your baguettes in bulk and freeze them for later use. They’ll also be on your plate more quickly whenever hunger strikes or you’re feeling lazy.