Who doesn’t love garlic pizza bread? This cheesy garlic pizza pull-apart is ridiculously tasty and as the name suggests, super easy! Plus, if you feel like making your own pizza sauce, we have your recipe below
Ingredients:
- 1 loaf of ciabatta bread or oval bread loaf
- 1 1/2 cups Mozzarella Cheese – this can be substituted for any cheese
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley or 1tsp of dried parsley
- 3 large garlic cloves, crushed
- 1/3 cup butter
- 1/3 cup pizza sauce (see recipe below if you’d like to make your own)
- 1/4 onion finely chopped
- 100g salami or pepperoni sliced (optional)
- Salt and Pepper
Pizza Sauce Recipe
Ingredients (makes around 1.5 cups)
- 5-6 whole peeled tomatoes, diced
- 1/2 onion, finely diced
- 1 garlic clove, peeled and diced
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- Pinch salt and pepper
- 2 tbsp olive oil, to saute
Pizza Sauce Method:
- Add the olive oil to a pan, saute onions until translucent
- Saute garlic and mix until golden
- Add in the tomatoes, stir well and bring to a simmer
- Season as desired and add in the dried oregano
- Simmer on a low heat, stirring often for at least 15 minutes
Pizza Pull-Apart Method:
- Either cut half-way through the bread, making diagonal slices, then create diagonal slices in the other direction – so effectively you make diamond shapes across the top of the loaf (make sure that you do not cut through to the base of the loaf), or make vertical cuts 3/4’s down along the entire loaf.
- Mix the butter and garlic together until soft and easy to spread. Crack a little salt and pepper into the butter-garlic mixture and mix through.
- Open up each little bread slice, and butter the inside of the slices, follow this with the pizza sauce. Follow this with the onion, salami and cheese.
- Sprinkle the top with parsley.
- Wrap in tin foil and bake at 180C for 15 minutes and then remove the foil and grill for 5 minutes until the top of the loaf has browned nicely.
Enjoy as an entree or a delicious side dish.
