Grilled French Bread Pizza Supreme
Get ready to fire up the grill for this Grilled French Bread Pizza, a quick and delicious pizza on the grill. With a crispy crust, gooey cheese, and your favorite toppings, this easy recipe is perfect for summer cookouts and family dinners.
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I love the ease of this golden brown Grilled Pizza recipe, using a loaf of ready-made bread makes this such an easy weeknight meal that you don’t have to think too much about. If you’re more of a true homemade pizza type person, homemade pizza dough, you must try my Cast Iron Skillet Pizza recipe!
Why this french bread pizza works
With just a few minutes of prep and a handful of common ingredients (no extra trip to the grocery store needed), you can make a super tasty pizza for dinner. Grilled pizzas add a delicious smoky flavor. Plus, the grill helps crisp up the bottoms of the bread loaves. Making your own pizzas is very easy and simple to customize.
Let's Gather the Ingredients
- Bread: I used a loaf of soft French bread but I don’t see why you can’t use other loaves like a French baguette.
- Pizza sauce: Use your favorite brand or make some homemade pizza sauce
- Cheese: shredded mozzarella cheese. I have found that shredded fresh mozzarella melts better, but the bagged shredded cheese can work too. I also used grated Parmesan cheese.
- Toppings: I used pepperoni slices, Italian sausage, sliced olives, diced green pepper, red pepper, and diced onions
- Herbs and Spices: minced garlic cloves and chopped fresh basil
How to Grill French Bread Pizza
- Step 1: Slice a loaf of French bread lengthwise.
- Step 2: Spread pizza sauce evenly over each slice of bread. Add fresh minced garlic over the sauce and top with shredded cheese.
- Step 3: Add pepperoni slices.
- Step 4: Add cooked ground sausage and sliced black olives.
- Step 5: Add diced bell peppers and onions.
- Step 6: Lay uncooked pizzas each on a piece of aluminum foil and wrap it loosely around the edges. Place pizzas in foil over indirect heat on the grill and grill until cheese is melted. Garnish with basil and grated Parmesan cheese. Serve and enjoy.
Recipe Tips
- Try Different Sauces – Swap classic marinara for pesto, BBQ sauce, or buffalo sauce.
- Switch Up the Cheese – Try a different melty cheese. Mozzarella is great, but try provolone, gouda, or feta for extra flavor.
- Keep an Eye on the Heat – Grill over low indirect heat to avoid burning the bottom before the cheese melts.
- Use the Right Knife. When cutting bread, use a bread knife or a nicely serrated knife to help cut through your loaf easily..
- Serve sides. This delicious pizza goes great with any of your favorite salads or a side of steamed veggies.
Recipe Faq's
Yes, I believe you could assemble these a day in advance then wrap them tightly with plastic wrap and aluminum foil before storing in the fridge. Remove the plastic and foil before grilling.
Grilling easiest way to make these pizzas, but the best part is that they do well when you bake them in a preheated oven too. Assemble the pizzas as normal then bake at 400F for 15 minutes, or until the pizza cheese has melted. I like to still wrap them with foil and place them on a baking sheet to catch any melting cheese or overflowing toppings. But these could be baked directly on the oven rack in the foil.
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Grilled French Bread Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 loaf soft french bread
- 3 cups of pizza sauce
- 2-3 garlic cloves minced
- 2-3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1 pkg pepperoni 40-50 pepperoni
- 2 cups cooked Italian sausage
- 1 cup olives sliced
- 1/2 cup green pepper diced
- 1/2 cup red pepper diced
- 1/2 cup onion diced
- Parmesan cheese
Instructions
- Heat grill to lowest flame
- Cut your french bread in half lengthwise, spread the pizza sauce evenly over the french bread. sprinkle fresh garlic over sauce and then sprinkle cheese. Add the pepperoni, sausage, olives, peppers and onions.
- Place each half french bread onto a large piece of foil and loosely wrap around edges.
- Grill over indirect heat for 8-10 minutes, or until cheese is melted. (keep an eye on it so it doesn't burn).
- Garnish with Parmesan cheese and serve!
Yes they can be prepped a few days before or even frozen for up to 3 months.
Can you get them ready the day before? To cook the next day?
Yes, Oven directions are in the recipe card.
Can it be baked in oven?
I've never made it with a smoker. There are oven directions at the bottom.
Can this be made on a smoker? My BBQ isn’t working right now.
Yay Amanda! Just a easy versatile quick meal!
Yummy! It’s getting hot here in Texas, so I’m ready to take our cooking outside! These are going on the meal plan this week 😃