Easy Pizza in Bread with Salami

Bread base

1. Choose the bread: buy soft yeast bread of any shape. Its crust shouldn’t be too hard, and you should be able to scoop out the crumb with your fingers to make a hollow. Preheat the oven to 180°C right away.

   

   Since pizza in bread isn’t baked but only heated to melt the cheese, put the base into a suitable pan greased with a little olive oil right away, and arrange the filling in it.

2. Scoop out the crumb. Cut through the top crust along the edge of the bread with a knife, either straight or in zigzags, then carefully scoop out the crumb down to the bottom crust, leaving a 5-6 mm layer of crumb. Also scoop out the crumb carefully under the overhanging rim. Dry and grind all the leftover bread to make breadcrumbs.

   

Filling

3. Brush the inside of the bread with tomato sauce and add the mozzarella. If you can, chop the pulp of 1-2 ripe tomatoes and simmer it in 1 tbsp of vegetable oil with spices until thick. Or, more simply, use ready-made tomato sauce, ketchup or salsa. By the way, a spicy sauce gives the pizza a pleasantly piquant taste.

   Slice the mozzarella into thin plates and lay it over the sauce, and also right under the overhanging rim of the bread. Sprinkle the cheese with a pinch of dried oregano.

   

4. Lay the salami and tomato over the cheese. Simple pizza with sausage is easy to make with vacuum-packed salami. You don’t need much sausage, literally 6-7 slices. Lay it over the cheese and add a thinly sliced ripe tomato.

   

5. Add the green onion, olives and blue cheese, drizzle with oil and sprinkle with Parmesan. Chop the green onion and scatter it over the filling. If you like, add 8-10 pitted olives. For a better flavor, dice any blue cheese, such as Danablu, Gorgonzola or Roquefort, and put it in the center of the filling.

   Drizzle the filling with 1 tsp of olive oil and brush the edges of the bread with olive oil too. Sprinkle the filling and the rim with 1 tbsp of grated Parmesan (7 g). It will stick to the crust of the bread.

   

Baking

6. Bake the pizza in an oven preheated to 180°C for 10-15 mins, until the cheese melts. Since the dough is already cooked, this time is only needed to heat the filling and melt the cheese. It may take longer, and you can only judge that by eye. As soon as the cheese on top starts to melt and lose its shape, the pizza is done and can come out of the oven.

   

Serving

7. Transfer the pizza to a board, scatter a handful of fresh basil leaves over the filling and cut into 6 pieces. Use a sharp knife and cut through the rim first. In the oven the bread dries out a little. It stays soft and crunches very pleasantly, a completely unusual kind of baked dish. Serve the pizza right away, on the same board. It goes especially well with tomato juice.

   

   If you like, you can buy ready-made pizza crusts, which are sold in packs of several. Or bake the crusts ahead from yeast dough , a recipe I have published. Such crusts keep for several days in the fridge in an airtight container. If you like, use other easy-to-find ingredients for the filling too.