Lazy Pizza

Picture of hot pizza, bread pizza

For whenever you want pizza, but don’t have time or the energy to make sauce or crust. It’s still tastes great!

Lazy Pizza

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

4 servings

  • 1 loaf of nice bread. In this recipe I use garlic bread
  • 1 jar tomato sauce
  • 1/4 cup minced garlic
  • 1/4 cup olive oil
  • 4 sprigs fresh rosemary
  • 1 can sliced olives
  • 1 can sliced mushrooms
  • 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (minimum, I like cheese)
  • Half jar sundried tomatoes
  • Salt
  • Ground black pepper

The key ingredients in this recipe are: The bread, the sauce, and the cheese. Everything else in this is toppings.

Essential garlic bread. A great brand to use for this recipe. I like to buy 3 and freeze them. 1 can of tomato sauce contains about 3 recipes worth

Step 1: bake your bread.

Note, this is only necessary if using a “take and bake”. Skip if using regular bread. You want your bread to have a large surface for toppings.

Step 2: Toppings

Canned sliced mushrooms, canned sliced olives, jar of sundried tomatoes.
Canned goods ready to go.

This recipe uses (canned) garlic, and fresh rosemary, so you want to cook them first.

Remove the rosemary leaves by pinching, and slide fingers down. Discard stems.

Add the garlic, olive oil, and rosemary to a small pan. Finish with pinch of salt and a couple grinds black pepper. Simmer on low for 7 minutes. The last photo is what to look for. Drain the cooking oil, and set aside. This is now an infused oil.

Step 3: Assemble

Cut bread in half (if using unsliced bread). Spread tomato sauce in an even layer.

Add the cooked garlic and rosemary on top of the sauce layer. Spread evenly. I add this now to ensure consistent flavor.

Add half the cheese, then one at a time layer the olives, mushrooms, and sundried tomatoes to the tomato sauce bread.

Add half the cheese, then one at a time layer the olives, mushrooms, and sundried tomatoes.

Add the rest of the cheese.

Step 4: bake at 375 F for 25 minutes

Or until the internal temperature is 165 degrees F when checked with a thermometer.

The finished pizza.

Allow to cool for 5 minutes… (The hardest part)


Thanks for reading! If you made this, tell me what you think!

14 responses to “Lazy Pizza”

  1. Easy pizza alternative, not lazy and looks delicious. Lazy would be calling a pizza delivery and having one show up at your door:)

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    1. That’s a very good point about the “lazy” part, haha.

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      1. I have learned a lot from a therapist about reframing what you say to be more accurate and not putting yourself down in any way and it works and is so great in your mental health. But it’s also true what I said:) Not lazy. But dang that looks good.

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      2. Thanks! I certainly didn’t mean to have this as a put down. The name is a nod to a pizza dish my mom made when I was in highschool. Now thinking it could use a new name. 🤔 Appreciate the wisdom!

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      3. Oh not at all I misunderstood, my bad. I thought your were referring like lazy pizza calling yourself lazy so I was responding thinking that 🤦🏼‍♀️

        I am special 🧠. Don’t mind me!

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  2. High Maintenance Pizza because I’m exhausted reading how to make it 🤣 Nice work:)

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  3. And what if I’m both lazy AND busy? 😛
    Oh my goodness! Reilly! It is 7:20am here, and all I want is this pizza!!!! Ha ha ha ha!
    Thank you for sharing this delicious masterpiece!!!!
    Well done, you! 🙂

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    1. Lazy and busy? 😅 How? Lol. Pizza is good any time! Thanks!

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  4. Hey Reilly! I hope all is okay with you?
    I just wanted to let you know I was thinking of you, and…
    MERRY CHRISTMAS!
    Meg

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    1. Hey Meg, sorry for disappearing. I’m doing okay, lot has happened the past 3 months… I burned out. Thank you for checking in!

      MERRY CHRISTMAS!
      Reilly.

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      1. Oh Reilly! How awful! I hope that you are resting and on the road to recovery. Burnout is horrible.
        Take time to catch up with yourself ❤
        Thinking of you.

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