Ciabatta Bread Pizza Recipe

I’ve made this beautiful and very quick vegetarian pizza for brunch today as we were all pretty hungry (not sure why, as we are hardly doing anything!). I have never seen my family so sedentary before.

In an effort to keep moving and bring a little exercise in, I did plan some spring clean after my WFH morning session. For that, some fuel was needed hence this nice and packed with carbs but totally meat-free pizza.

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We do live extraordinary and very strange times currently and I really cannot bear to be listening to news any longer. At the same time, I want to hear what’s going on. Sadly, it’s not good news and today our PM has been admitted to ICU (intensive care unit).

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My heart really goes out to poor Italy and the Italians, and all the families everywhere that lost loved ones to this nasty, nasty COVID-19. It is all overwhelmingly sad and I felt quite emotional today.

Dreadful news, yet I’m positive the sun will shine again, hopefully soon. It’s so heart-rending to see and hear the news all across the world currently.

I need cheering food these days, food to comfort me. It is amazing how food plays such a pivotal role in our life, yes for some more than others but ultimately to all of us. It is not just to feed our hunger, it has a much wider range of meanings:

Ciabatta Bread Pizza

I believe this lockdown has such an impact on us in so many ways but the social aspect it's what hits me most. I am very social and I have to say that I am missing the social aspect so much! I like to interact with people, friends and extended family, to feed them to cheer around the table, to chat. It is all so sinister now. I wish I was an introvert or I could just switch to one whenever suits me.

Coming back to my cheering vegetarian pizza, and the days we are living at the moment when not all ingredients are easy to find. The flour, yeast and toilet paper are luxury. Crazy! If we were told this was going to be the case as early as two weeks back we would laugh out loud.

Using ingredients that we really, really proves to be a bit of a luxury these days when online shopping it’s a little stuck with hundreds of thousands in a virtual queue.

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I have managed to have a delivery already (nothing spectacular but just a little more stuff than usual (no toilet paper, I promise)and I have managed to place another delivery for 2 weeks time.

We are eating and using whatever it’s there in the pantry. I always believe we can make a nice meal out of anything with just a little imagination.

I have used a jarred tomato sauce this time, one of these used for adding to a pasta dish. Whenever I don’t have this I make my own tomato sauce by adding some plain tomato sauce to previously cooked chopped garlic, onion and herbs. Simple and delicious. Of course hiding some extra vegetables (gems as we call them) would not hurt.

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To make this vegetarian pizza I have used a blend of grated hard mozzarella and mild cheddar cheese but you can use whatever cheese you like or have. It has to be any cheese that melts well. Cannot be too fussy, can we?

Artichoke, ham, chicken, bacon, chorizo, any salami, eggs, mushrooms, any pepper, asparagus or any ingredient you may love. Please let me know what else you put on your pizza that I have not covered here. I would be really interested to hear.

Yes, you certainly can. Whenever needed just take out of the freezer, place on a baking tray and bake for a little longer by approximately 10 min.

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A quick vegetarian pizza using only a few ingredients like tomato sauce, cheese herbs, olives and ciabatta bread. Ready in no time and so tasty too.

If you are using plain tomato sauce I always like to cook this with some chopped garlic and herbs and had a bit of salt and pepper. But if you are using pasta tomato sauce ready mate/food but then I want add anything to it

I enjoy this with some sriracha sauce or my totally irresistible chilli and ginger jam which I have to say it's a must have in the fridge at all time.

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Of corse if you fancy adding some chorizo, salami, ham or any other meats feel absolutely free to add as another layer over the tomato sauce.

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I mean… it’s a PIZZA LOAF. It will take you 30 minutes, tops. Cover your bread with cheese and call it a day.

Ciabatta Pizza Recipe

Tell me why why why I never thought to make a quick little pizza on ciabatta bread? I’ve done French bread, pita bread, bagels, tortillas and even naan – but never a ciabatta bread. Also, I haven’t even made one of these breads recently. I almost always make my own dough and it becomes a production – albeit a delicious one – and the cleanup is insane because I essentially throw flour everywhere.

French bread pizzas were one of the first recipes I shared on the site. They are so easy and versatile and I’m not too proud to admit that we used to throw back a Stouffer’s French bread pizza every now and then when I was a kid. And the mac and cheese too. The burnt and bubbly cheese parts. I caaaaan’t.

There are a few things I love about the ciabatta pizza loaf though. First, the loaf of bread is wider than the French bread so it can serve more people. It makes dinner seem more substantial in this millennial world where it’s all about how we FEEL. You know?

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Second, the bread is so wonderfully chewy and when the outside toasts in the oven, it’s a texture lover’s dream. Even though bread would never be my drug of choice, if I had to pick one bread to eat on it’s own, it would certainly be a ciabatta if for the chewiness alone.

Every time I share a pizza photo on Instagram, I get lots of questions about what sauce I use, what cheese is my favorite and where the mini pepperonis come from! The toppings on this bread are exactly what I’m doing now for homemade pizza dough too.

When it comes to sauce, well… you guys know I don’t love tomato sauce. On pizza it’s fine because hello, it’s PIZZA. But I have zero desire to make my own. Back in the day, I used Mids. Then I started using this DeLallo’s sauce and just last month, moved to the cherry tomato sauce from DeLallo’s because it’s sort of sweet and perfect for margherita pizzas, which usually have my favorite sauce.

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Cheese? Oh hi, you’re talking to the queeeen. I like a mixture of three cheeses, plus finely grated parmesan for topping. I tend to go with provolone, mozzarella and fontina, all freshly grated (this makes a ha-yuge different in melt quality!) and if I only have two on hand, that’s fine too. But definitely a mix.

I love to brush my dough or bread with olive oil and sprinkle it with garlic powder. Yes, I know fresh garlic reigns supreme, but unless I’m mincing ten cloves, I won’t get the even flavor. So garlic powder it is.

Also! A sprinkle of dried basil and oregano IN the toppings makes for so much flavor. Sometimes I’ll sprinkle it over the sauce and sometimes over the cheese – whenever I remember.

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I used to be a super plain pizza gal – cheese only and lots of it – but when I was pregnant with Max I stopped loathing pepperoni. So weird. I don’t like huge slabs of meat though (save your jokes please), so the tiny pepperoni are key! This way, I can put a ton of it on Eddie’s side of the pizza and be a bit more sporadic on my side. I find the mini pepperoni by Hormel at my grocery store.

I finish the whole thing off with a sprinkle of fresh basil and oregano and a touch more cheese. Of course. I mean, who do you think I am? But for REAL, this is my perfect pepperoni pizza method and it gets rave reviews. It’s so easy but the little things like the

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