Bread Pizza is a quick, instant and tasty variation of pizza recipe made on griddle or tawa or pan. The bread base mimics the pizza base with veggie toppings. Of course the taste of bread pizza is different than the original Veg Pizza. In this post I am sharing two super easy ways to make bread pizza.
- Bread Pizza made on a skillet, pan or tawa (with pizza sauce)
- Veggie Bread Pizza made in the oven (without pizza sauce)
The recipes are easy to make for a brunch or evening snack. In fact you can easily double or triple the recipes and make for small get togethers or parties.
Bread Pizza on a Skillet, Pan or Tawa
This recipe is one of those snacks that you can make when you get pizza cravings. You just need a fresh loaf of bread, a really good pizza sauce (I would definitely recommend a homemade Pizza Sauce) and some veggies.
Bread: You can use any variety of bread to make bread pizza like whole wheat flour bread or white bread or multi-grain bread or brown bread or wheat sandwich bread. You can even use a couple of days old bread.
Heating: Also do use a heavy tawa or pan. If you use a tawa or skillet that is not heavy, then the bread can get burnt from the bottom. Low heating is the key here as it slowly creates a nice golden crust on the base of the bread.
Base sauce: Generally pizza sauce is used to make a pizza. But in this recipe, you can use white sauce and even pesto sauce as the base sauce. The recipe uses pizza sauce. You can easily make the tomato pizza sauce at home. I have shared the recipe here – Pizza Sauce.
Toppings: For the toppings, you can use veggies of your choice. I always stick to onions, tomatoes and capsicum (bell pepper). I also like to add some olives. Sometimes I add steamed sweet corn too. You can even use baby corn, sautéed mushrooms or sautéed spinach.
Serving Suggestions: Serve bread pizza plain or accompanied with pizza sauce or tomato ketchup.
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How to make Bread Pizza on Tawa
Toasting Bread
1. Heat a heavy tawa or pan or griddle. Spread about ½ to 1 teaspoon olive oil on it. You can even use butter instead of olive oil. Keep the flame to its lowest. Do use a heavy tawa or pan or else the bread can get too much browned or burnt from the bottom. Also, keep the flame to its lowest when making the entire recipe.
2. Place bread slice on it. You can keep 1 to 2 bread slices at a time depending on the size of the tawa or pan. You can use any variety of bread like white bread, whole wheat or brown bread or multi grain bread.
3. Lightly toast the bread from the base and then flip it.
Making Bread Pizza
4. Now quickly spread some pizza sauce on the lightly toasted side. For pizza sauce recipe, you can check here – Pizza sauce.
5. Quickly top with small onion cubes. Chop all the veggies and keep it ready before you start preparing the pizza.
6. Then quickly place capsicum cubes. Keep the cubes small. While adding the topping keep the flame to its lowest. you can also switch off the flame when you add toppings on the pizza.
7. Now top quickly with small tomato cubes. Also, add some sliced olives. Both tomatoes and olives are optional and you can skip them. You can even add steamed corn kernels or sautéed mushrooms. Sautéed spinach can also be added.
8. Sprinkle dried herbs like oregano, basil. Also add some crushed black pepper or black pepper powder. You can even add fresh basil leaves instead of dried basil. The addition of black pepper is optional. You can even use pizza seasoning instead of adding dried herbs separately.
9. Now quickly top with grated mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese.
10. Keep the flame to its lowest. Place a lid on the bread pizza.
11. Cook till cheese melts and the bread is toasted.
12. Remove with a spatula and place it on a serving plate. Sprinkle some red chili flakes or oregano if you want. Red chili flakes can be skipped also.
12. Serve bread pizza hot plain or accompanied with tomato sauce or pizza sauce.
This recipe post is from the archives and has been republished and updated on 26 May 2020.
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Bread Pizza (Easy 15 Minutes)
Ingredients
for light toasting bread
- 6 large bread slices or sandwich bread slices - whole wheat, white, multi grain or brown bread
- olive oil or butter as required
toppings for bread pizza
- pizza sauce - as required
- 1 medium onion - cut in small cubes
- 1 medium capsicum - cut in small cubes
- 1 medium tomato - cut in small cubes, optional
- 5 to 6 olives - sliced, optional
- oregano as required
- dried basil as required
- crushed black pepper or black pepper powder, as required - optional
- 1 to 1.25 cups grated mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese - add as required
- red chilli flakes as required - optional
Instructions
Toasting Bread
- Heat a heavy tawa or pan or griddle. Spread about ½ to 1 teaspoon olive oil on it. You can even use butter instead of olive oil. Keep the flame to its lowest.
- Place bread slice on it. You can keep 1 to 2 bread slices at a time depending on the size of the griddle or tawa or pan.
- Lightly toast the bread from the base and then flip it.
Making Bread Pizza
- Now quickly spread some pizza sauce on the lightly toasted side.
- Top with small onion cubes. Chop all the veggies and keep it ready before you start preparing the pizza.
- Then place capsicum cubes. Keep the capsicum cubes small. While adding the topping keep the flame to its lowest.
- Now top with small tomato cubes. Also add some sliced olives. Both tomatoes and olives are optional and you can skip them.
- Sprinkle dried herbs like oregano, basil. Also add some crushed black pepper or black pepper powder. Addition of black pepper is optional.
- While adding the toppings, you can also switch off the flame if you want.
- Now top with grated mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese.
- Keep the flame to its lowest. Place a lid on the bread pizza.
- Cook till cheese melts and the bread is toasted.
- Remove with a spatula and place it on a serving plate. Sprinkle some red chili flakes or oregano if you want.
- Serve Bread Pizza hot plain or accompanied with tomato ketchup or pizza sauce.
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Notes
- Veggie Options: You can add your choice of veggies. Steamed corn kernels or sautéed mushrooms or sautéed spinach can also be added.
- Herbs: You can even add fresh basil leaves instead of dried basil. You can also add your choice of herbs. You can even use pizza seasoning instead of adding dried herbs separately.
- Heating: Do use a heavy tawa or pan. If you use a tawa or skillet which is not heavy, then the bread can get burnt from bottom.
- Sauces: For the base sauce, you can use red pizza sauce, white sauce or pesto.
- Bread: You can use any bread be it white, multi-grain or whole wheat.
Nutrition Info (Approximate Values)
Recipe 2 – Veggie Bread Pizza in Oven
This is also a quick and easy recipe to make delicious vegetable bread pizza.
When you have leftover bread slices, there are many snacks you can make from them. This recipe is one of them.
The recipe is fairly easy to prepare and makes for a healthy snack if you use wheat flour bread or brown bread. It took me about 30 minutes to make these crisp veg bread pizza. The bread slices are toasted twice. So when the bread slices are getting toasted initially, you can chop the veggies and prepare the toppings.
For this recipe, you don’t need ready pizza sauce. But if you have, then you can use it.
Veggie bread pizza can be had plain or with tomato ketchup. The recipe also makes for a good snack or brunch. Skip the red chili flakes while serving to small kids.
How to make Veggie Bread Pizza in Oven
1. Slice the bread into two and place them in a baking tray. You can also cover the tray with aluminium foil and place the bread slices on it. Toast the bread in a preheated oven at 200 degrees celsius for about 5 to 7 minutes or more, till they are lightly toasted and golden.
You can also easily toast the bread slices in an electric toaster or on a tawa or skillet. However, remember they have to be lightly toasted and browned as we will be baking them again in the oven for the cheese to melt.
2. Heat 1 tablespoons olive oil in a pan.
3. Add finely chopped garlic and sauté for half a minute on a low flame. No need to brown the garlic.
4. Add finely chopped tomatoes and sauté till the tomatoes soften.
5. Add black pepper, dry oregano and basil. Season with salt.
6. Stir well.
7. Then add sliced onions, steamed corn kernels and bell peppers. At this step, you can also add veggies like sautéed mushrooms, baby corn, steamed potatoes, cherry tomatoes, olives.
8. Stir and sauté for 3 to 4 minutes. We don’t need to cook the veggies completely. Just a light sautéing.
9. Keep the veggies aside.
9. When the bread slices are lightly toasted, remove them from the oven.
10. Top the veggies on the bread slices. If you want you can also spread some butter or olive oil on the bread first and then top the prepared veggies. You can also dot the veggies with pizza sauce or tomato ketchup.
11. Sprinkle grated cheese. Here I used amul brand processed cheese and it does not melt. But will get golden and browned. For a melted and gooey option, better to add cheddar cheese. For a stringy melted option, add mozzarella cheese.
12. Place the tray back in the oven and bake at 200 degrees celsius for 5 to 7 minutes or till the cheese melts or gets light brown.
Serve veggie bread pizza with red chili flakes, oregano or tomato ketchup.
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Veggie Bread Pizza in Oven
Ingredients
- 8 to 10 bread slices - brown or whole wheat or white bread
- 3 to 4 medium garlic cloves - finely chopped
- 1 medium to large capsicum (bell pepper) - sliced or chopped (red or green or yellow bell pepper)
- 1 medium onion, sliced or chopped
- 1/3 cup steamed corn kernels or tinned corn
- 1 teaspoon dry oregano
- 1 teaspoon dry basil
- ¼ to ½ teaspoon black pepper powder or add as per your taste
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 large tomato, finely chopped or ½ cup finely chopped tomato
- salt as required
- processed cheese or cheddar cheese or mozzarella cheese as required
- chili flakes as required for sprinkling
- oregano as required for sprinkling
Instructions
Toasting Bread
- Slice the bread into two and place them in a baking tray. You can also cover the tray with aluminium foil and place the bread slices on it.
- Toast the bread in a preheated oven at 200 degrees celsius for 5 to 7 minutes or more, till they are lightly toasted and golden.
- You can also easily toast the bread slices in an electric toaster or on a tava/griddle. When the bread slices are lightly toasted, remove them from the oven.
Making Veggie Bread Pizza in Oven
- Heat the olive in a pan.
- Add finely chopped garlic and saute for half a minute on a low flame. No need to brown the garlic.
- Add tomatoes and saute till the tomatoes soften on a low flame.
- When the tomatoes are softened and you see oil releasing from the mixture, add black pepper, dry oregano and basil. Also add salt stir well.
- Then add sliced onions. Steamed corn kernels and bell peppers. Here you can also add veggies like sauteed mushrooms, baby corn, steamed potatoes, cherry tomatoes, olives.
- Stir and saute for 3 to 4 minutes on a low flame. We don't need to cook the veggies. Just a light sauteing.
- Keep the veggies aside.
- Top the veggies on the lightly toasted bread slices.
- If you want you can also spread some butter/olive oil on the bread first and then top the prepared veggies. You can also dot the veggies with tomato sauce.
- Sprinkle grated cheese. Here I used the regular indian cheese like amul cheese. This cheese does not melt. But will get golden and browned.
- For a melted and gooey option, better to add cheddar cheese.
- For a stringy melted option, add mozzarella cheese
- Place the tray back in the oven and bake at 200 degrees celsius for 5 to 7 minutes or till the cheese melts or gets light browned.
- Serve veggie bread pizza with red chili flakes, oregano and tomato ketchup.
Nice recipe. Tried it for mine mid-night hunger, it came out very tasty and yummy. Thanks.
welcome and thanks for sharing this lovely feedback.
Very simple way to and fill our life with happiness
Tried your BREAD PIZZA.
Came out very well.
Thanks Rejni for your positive feedback.