Puff Pastry Pizza
This Puff Pastry Pizza Bread recipe is easy to make and makes a great appetizer, side dish or a meal on its own. This puff pastry pizza uses frozen puff pastry dough to make a puff pastry crust or pizza strudel.
An easy recipe using store bought puff pastry adding in your favorite pizza toppings like mozzarella, olive oil, tomato, pizza sauce, fresh basil.
What make the instructions to this easy puff pastry pizza recipe different from the Pioneer Woman puff pastry pizza is that the puff pastry is wrapped like a strudel and the center of the pastry is stuffed with the pizza ingredients.
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You can shape and roll out the puff pastry into pizza dough square or fold it over like a pizza strudel for a homemade pizza that's ready in less than 30 minutes. The choice is yours.
This recipe was inspired by a vacation we took with the family. When we arrived home from our vacation, I looked around to find something I could make quickly. In the freezer I found puff pastry, as well as tomatoes, mozzarella and some anchovies in the fridge.
What to Make with a Puff Pastry Pizza
This puff pastry pizza bread would go well with chicken wings, coconut shrimp and dipping sauce or (air) fried crispy calamari. Lentil soup is also a great option to have with pizza.
Other puff pastry recipes like this easy Strawberry Sfoglia Cake, Nutella Turnovers and easy homemade Mille Feuille are absolutely delicious and make great desserts.
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Ingredients Needed to make Puff Pastry Pizza
- Puff Pastry
- All Purpose Flour
- Mozzarella cheese
- Tomato
- Butter
- Parmesan cheese
- Parsley
- Oregano
See recipe card for quantities.
How to Make Puff Pastry Pizza
Preheat. Roll out puff pastry. Section the puff pastry into three sections lengthwise.
See the following picture on how I divided the puff pastry into three sections.
On the outer panels make slits diagonally all the way to the outer edges. Layer mozzarella and tomato in center of pastry.
Layer additional toppings.
Fold sides to enclose mozzarella tomato layer making a crisscross design.
Combine glaze ingredients and brush on top of pastry.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
Top Tip
When you are working with puff pastry, you need to work quickly. The longer the dough stays at room temperature the less it will rise when cooked.
Know what you are going to do and work quickly. Have the oven preheated and ready to go so that you can get it in the oven quickly.
Variations and Substitutions
Some of the Pizza's you can make include the following:
- Pesto
basil, pine nuts, parmiggiano cheese, olive oil - Hawaiian
black forest ham, pineapple, black olives, onions, pizza sauce, mozzarella - Mediterranean
calamata olives, feta cheese, red peppers, red onions, oregano - Potato and Pancetta
thin potato slices, thinly slice pancetta or bacon, mozzarella, oregano - Sausage and Rapini
thinly slice pork sausage, rapini, mozzarella, fennel seed, oregano, mozzarella
Use your imagination to come up with unique pizza flavor combinations or your favorite toppings. The great part of using puff pastry is that you don't have to wait for it to rise. You can thaw it out and use it right away.
Equipment Recommended
Equipment plays and important role int he outcome of your recipes. For best results, use parchment paper and good baking sheets.
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Storing your Puff Pastry Pizza
Store leftover pizza in the refrigerator in an air tight container or wrapped in foil.
You can also freeze pizza slices in the freezer wrapped in foil or stored in an air tight container. You can take them from freezer to toaster oven and warm for 10 minutes at 350F.
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Recipe Details
Puff Pastry Pizza Bread
Ingredients
- 1 pkg Puff Pastry
- ½ cups flour to roll pastry
- ½ cups mozzarella
- 1 large tomato
- 2 tbsp butter melted
- 2 tbsp grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 tbsp fresh parsley
- 1 tbsp dried oregano
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Roll out puff pastry. Section the puff pastry into three sections lengthwise.
- On the outer panels make slits diagonally all the way to the outer edges. (see Image 1). Layer mozzarella and tomato in centre of pastry.
- Layer any other ingredients. Fold sides to enclose mozzarella tomato layer making a crisscross design. Combine glaze ingredients and brush on top of pastry.
- If you have been working with the puff pastry for a while, place in fridge for 30 minutes until it hardens up again. Place in 425 degree pre-heated oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until golden brown.
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