Grown Up Pizza Bread
A Delicious Meal For Busy Nights
Grown Up Pizza Bread is an easy dinner you can make for one or two in the air fryer. It has my favorite ingredients and it hits the spot after a busy day and saves you from ordering take out.
You’ll love these crispy french rolls topped with pizza sauce, sausage, olive oil, creamy mozzarella cheese. They’re toasted in the air fryer or oven and then topped with some salad greens tossed in black pepper and a delicious garlic vinaigrette.
Shaved parmesan is also an added delicious touch!
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My Favorite Sauce
My favorite pizza sauce of all time is Pastorelli Pizza Sauce. I have always kept a few cans of this in my pantry for busy meal ideas.
I have also been known to eat this cold with string cheese dipped into it when I am looking for a quick snack!
Pastorelli pizza sauce is usually quite easy to find. It is sometimes in a jar but I mostly find it in small cans. I like the small cans so that you do not have to open a whole big can for the small amount that this recipe calls for.
This is not sponsored, I just love sharing my favorite pantry staples.
Cooked Or Raw
I put raw sausage raw right on top before adding the cheese, but you can easily cook your sausage beforehand. I personally like to cook it this way because the sausage juices cook right up into the bread.
Either way you feel comfortable making this is how you should make it for yourself.
Mozzarella Cheese
My recipe says to use freshly shredded cheese or fresh mozzarella. There are also times I use thinly sliced mozzarella for this recipe.
I think these three cheeses melt better than the already shredded cheese. Now I know SOMEONE is going to lecture me that they think there’s sawdust in the shredded cheese.
There isn’t!
They do add a plant cellulose to the shredded cheese that keeps it from sticking but it is not sawdust. It is the same plant cellulose found in veggies or nuts.
That being said, it does prevent the cheese from melting like freshly shredded mozzarella.
After all have you ever tried to melt plant cellulose? Not easy!
Garlic Expressions
I go on and on about this dressing. Garlic Expressions is not paying me, but I wish they were.
I just love it! I got a 3 pack at Costco but they sell this in lots of places.
One of the other recipes I use this dressing in is my Best Ever Tomato Bruschetta. I also find the Aldi brand of Garlic Vinaigrette is a good sub for the garlic dressing if you cannot find this brand.
Pizza Salad is also a VERY POPULAR recipe that uses the Garlic Expression Dressing.
Grown Up Pizza Bread
This is an easy dinner. you can make for one or two in the air fryer. It has my favorite ingredients. This hits the spot after a busy day and saves you from ordering take out. Cripsy french rolls topped with pizza sauce, sausage, olive oil, creamy mozzarella cheese. This is toasted in the air fryer or oven and then topped with some salad greens tossed in black pepper and a delicious garlic vinaigrette. Shaved parmesan is also an added delicious touch.
Ingredients
- French Rolls *the ones I prefer are pictured in the post
- Pastorelli Pizza Sauce *pictured in post
- 2 links of Italian Sausage, casings removed
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil *approximately
- Sprinkle of garlic salt
- Sprinkle of onion powder
- Sprinkle of dried oregano
- Mozzarella cheese *you can use fresh or buy the chunk and grate this yourself
- 2 cups of mixed salad greens, I used the spinach, arugula mix
- 3 tablespoons of garlic vinaigrette *the ones I use are linked and pictured in the post
- Cracked Black Pepper
- Shaved Parmesan *optional
Instructions
- Split your rolls in half so that you have two open faced pieces.
- Drizzle with the olive oil and then season with the dried oregano, the garlic salt and the onion powder. I then toast these in the air fryer for a couple of minutes at a higher temp or in the oven at 375 degrees. These should be toasted just until they are slightly crispy.
- Remove carefully and spread with the pizza sauce. Then add small pieces of the uncooked Italian sausage. *I cook the sausage right on the rolls raw. If you are not comfortable with this, you can brown your sausage ahead of time.
- Add the breads back to the oven or air fryer and cook until the sausage is fully cooked. Then top with the shredded or fresh mozzarella. Drizzle the top again with some olive oil and a sprinkle of dried oregano and bake or air fry until the cheese is melted and golden brown.
- In a bowl toss the greens with the garlic vinaigrette and a decent amount of black pepper.
- When the pizza bread is ready, top with the greens and serve.
My Air Fryer
Everyone always asks me about an air fryer. There are many out there that are awesome.
The one I use is a brand called Go Wise. This Go Wise Air Fryer is available on Amazon. I linked it there on my Amazon storefront.
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