Pizza bread a.k.a. Zapiekanka
Pizza bread a.k.a. Zapiekanka

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, pizza bread a.k.a. zapiekanka. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Zapiekanka's base is a baguette, cut in half lengthwise. Traditionally, it's topped with mushrooms, melted cheese and on the very top, a squirt of ketchup. Zapiekanka This is a popular way to make something delicious from leftovers in Poland.

Pizza bread a.k.a. Zapiekanka is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Pizza bread a.k.a. Zapiekanka is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pizza bread a.k.a. zapiekanka using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pizza bread a.k.a. Zapiekanka:
  1. Take Bread, rolls or baguette
  2. Prepare Base
  3. Take 300 g mushrooms
  4. Prepare 350 g tomatoes
  5. Make ready Toppings
  6. Get 250 g Mozzarella
  7. Prepare Ham or salami
  8. Take Ketchup
  9. Get Spices
  10. Make ready Salt
  11. Make ready Pepper
  12. Get Garlic
  13. Take Oregano
  14. Make ready Basil
  15. Make ready Tools
  16. Take 2 frying pans
  17. Get Oven

Most zapiekanki sandwiches start with French bread, sautéed mushrooms, cheese, and ketchup, but there are Hawaiian-style zapiekanki with pineapple, Greek-style with olives and feta cheese , Italian style, and many more. A typical zapiekanka is made from one half of a baguette, or any other long roll of white bread, cut lengthwise, as for a submarine sandwich. The bread is topped with sliced, sautéed white mushrooms and grated cheese to form an open-face sandwich, which is then toasted until the bread becomes crisp and the cheese melts. Zapiekanka is basically the Polish pizza.

Steps to make Pizza bread a.k.a. Zapiekanka:
  1. Prepare ingredients.
  2. Chop tomatoes to very small pieces. Then add salt, pepper, basil and garlic. Mix everything well.
  3. Chop mushrooms to form you like. Add salt, pepper and garlic.
  4. Heat two frying pans and add butter. Then put tomatoes to one and mushrooms to another.
  5. Fry tomatoes until they will lose a water and sauce will get thick. After that you can blend it if you want but you don’t have to.
  6. Also fry mushrooms until the will turn dark and they will lose water.
  7. Heat the oven to 180°C with fan turned on.
  8. Cut baguette in half and put tomatoes base and mushrooms on it
  9. Finish with the toppings you like. I used grated mozzarella and salami.
  10. Put everything to oven for 7-10 min.
  11. Sprinkle with oregano. We serve this with ketchup. Enjoy!
  12. Left a comment and photo of your version of zapiekanka.

Cheap, crusty, yummy, and sold on every street corner, especially at night, its ingredients and variations are endless. Though the open-face sandwich is really popular and trendy today, it was originally the only fast food solution during the poor and austere times of the Communist Era. And just like pizza, you can get a zapiekanka with almost any topping imaginable. Vegetables, thinly sliced meats, even themed zapiekanka such as "hawaiian" with ham and pineapple, Mexican and Greek adaptations are available. The appeal of zapiekanka for college students is two-fold.

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