Photo: Super Stuffed French Bread Pizza Rustica Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 (2 foot long) loaf French bread
- 1 pound sweet Italian sausage
- 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 small red bell pepper, seeded and chopped
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 2 large cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 package frozen chopped spinach defrosted and squeezed dry
- Salt and pepper
- 1 1/2 cups part skim ricotta
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan
- 1/2 pound sweet sopressata, from the deli, sliced thick, chopped
- 1/2 stick pepperoni, chopped
- 1 sack (10 ounces) shredded mozzarella
- 1 sack (10 ounces) shredded provolone
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
Directions
Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
Split bread lengthwise and hollow it out. Cut in half across, making 4 shells for pizzas.
Heat a skillet over medium high flame and brown sausage in extra-virgin olive oil. Brown and crumble sausage. Add red bell pepper, onion and garlic. Cook 3 to 5 minutes, add spinach. Remove mixture from heat and season with a pinch of salt and black pepper, to your taste.
Transfer to a bowl. Combine sausage and veggies with ricotta, Parmesan, sopressata and pepperoni. Fill bread shells and top with mounded mozzarella and provolone cheeses. Place in hot oven on cookie sheet and bake until cheese melts and bubbles and bread is super crisp, about 10 to 12 minutes. Top pizzas with oregano and hot pepper flakes. Serve immediately, or snack all night!
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By buffettgal2
Hayes, VA
on January 01, 2012
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Wonderful!! Can use hot sausage if you like the heat. I used ham and not so much red/green pepper. Also use some Ragu to dip in.
By jenhoward
on August 23, 2011
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I added a thin layer of sauce to mine and hot sausage.
By nycmuse
Newtown, 45
on October 29, 2010
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This was OUTSTANDING! Accidentally used hot sausage, but it just added to the flavor. This is a HUGELY SATISFYING DISH ~ you definitely don't need ALL the ingredients (kind of pricey to use all of them, as well. I just used sausage, one pepper, mushrooms, an onion, garlic, the ricotta - totally not necessary, imho - and one bag of shredded Italian mixed cheeses. Oh, and pepperoni on my roomie's pieces.
INCREDIBLY YUMMY...we both were making our happy noises as we muched away! And I didn't even finish mine - there is one section left over.
DEFINITELY MAKE THESE ~ sooo delicious! Just tweak the recipe to your liking and it will still turn out fantastic! Thanks, Rachel! :
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