The Secret to the Best French Bread Pizza
simplyrecipes.com · 2025 · Original
French Bread Pizzainferred from the title
DietVegetarian. Not vegan: fresh mozzarella cheese, unsalted butter.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
French Bread Pizza style, one of 45 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.
French Bread Pizza (United States): split baguette or French loaf topped and baked; Stouffer's lineage, no dough
Tradition: 375 to 425°F bake (this recipe: 450°F)
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Dough not parsable from the source, so baker's percentages are not available.
Process
Bake temp
450°F / 232°C
Bake time
8 to 10 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Ingredients (4)
- oilolive oil3 tbsp · 40.8g
- sauce tomatocanned crushed tomatoes1 cup · 245g
- saltKosher saltn/a
- cheese mozzarellafresh mozzarella cheese4 1/2 oz · 128g
Toppings (5)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheeseunsalted butter4 tbsp · 72g
- over cheese2 cloves garlic
- over cheesedried oregano1 tsp · 0.5g
- over cheesechili flakes1/2 tsp · 2.1g
- over cheese1 sprig fresh Italian basil
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