Caprese Flatbread
Caprese Flatbread is a simple pizza recipe that serves 4. Using fresh tomatoes, basil, mozzarella, and balsamic glaze, it’s ready in minutes!
Perfect for a quick vegetarian dinner or a flatbread appetizer, we love that this Caprese flatbread that takes only minutes to prepare! This flatbread with balsamic glaze includes a crispy, flatbread (or pizza) crust, pizza sauce, fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced heirloom tomatoes, and fresh basil! Delish!
The simple but delicious flavors of Caprese is one of our favorites. If you’re a caprese lover like me, then you’ll love this stuffed bread, sandwich sliders, peach bites, pasta bake, or Caprese Grilled Potlenta appetizer –all recipes that we’ve enjoyed for years at Reluctant Entertainer.
Caprese Flatbread
This is such a simple recipe if you keep Trader Joe’s pizza crust (or flatbreads) in the freezer. Stop off at the local farm stand and buy fresh basil and heirloom tomatoes! You may have already tried my Summer Fruit Caprese Salad, which is a great salad to make right now, with summer produce!
Why we love this recipe
- It makes a great lunch, dinner or appetizer.
- So light and fresh for summer.
- Simple ingredients.
Gather these ingredients
- Flatbread: we buy Trader Joe’s Pizza Crust or flatbread
- Olive oil
- Fresh basil leaves
- Fresh Mozzarella cheese: we buy BelGioioso, thick slices
- Heirloom tomatoes: red and yellow, thickly sliced
- Sea salt
- Balsamic glaze: we buy DeLallo brand
Light and fresh, this Caprese flatbread is the perfect appetizer or simple Vegetarian meal!
How do you make Caprese Flatbread?
It’s simple to make flatbread pizza!
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- On a cookie sheet, lay 1 pizza crust or flatbread and spritz with olive oil. [For a crisper crust, place directly on the oven rack.]
- Lay down the whole basil leaves on top of the crust.
- Next lay down the sliced tomatoes.
- On top of tomatoes, lay down the thick slices of mozzarella cheese.
- Add sea salt and bake!
- Remove from oven and let the pizza cool. Add fresh chopped basil and balsamic glaze.
- Cut into 4 large squares and serve!
Tips and substitutions:
- Add a twist of pesto, fresh spinach or pesto!
- Make for a snack, lunch, or dinner. It’s great for a “girl dinner” too! Cut into smaller pieces to make it go further!
- Switch up the ingredients based on what you’ve got in your fridge, and add salsa, black beans, and cilantro. Or add protein like rotisserie chicken (or leftover grilled chicken), with barbecue sauce.
- You can use any store-bought naan or pizza crust for this recipe.
- If you can’t find balsamic glaze at the store, you can make your own! All you have to do to make balsamic glaze/reduction is to place balsamic vinegar in a small saucepan and simmer it over medium heat until it reduces and gets thick.
- Add sun-dried tomatoes if you can’t get your hands on any fresh tomatoes! We recommend the oil-packed sun-dried tomatoes, and drizzling the flatbread with a little of that sun-dried tomato oil on top.
- Use whole tomato slices or sliced cherry tomatoes, or you can even use sliced peaches or nectarines.
- We think heirloom tomatoes are the best though, as they add the best “summer” flavors and are a beautiful color to the dish!
We love this pizza with thick BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella cheese slices! My friend, Brenda, makes Individual Tortilla Caprese Pizzas and they are DELISH!
Top with sea salt and balsamic glaze.
Only 10 minutes to prepare, and then 10 minutes to bake the most delicious, end-of-summer treat!
The perfect summer treat!
Enjoy!
More caprese recipes to try:
Persimmon Pear Caprese Crostini
Chicken Foil Packs (for camping)
Get the Recipe:
Caprese Flatbread
Ingredients
- 1 15 oz Trader Joe’s Pizza Crust, use 1 of the 2 crusts or use flatbread
- Olive oil
- Fresh basil leaves, about 10-12 whole leaves
- ½ lb BelGioioso Fresh Mozzarella, thick slices
- 3 heirloom tomatoes, red and yellow, thickly sliced
- Sea salt
- Balsamic glaze, we buy DeLallo brand
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- On a cookie sheet, lay 1 pizza crust (or flatbread) and spritz with olive oil. [For a crisper crust, place directly on the oven rack.]
- Lay down the whole basil leaves on top of the crust.
- Next lay down the sliced tomatoes.
- On top of tomatoes, lay down the thick slices of mozzarella cheese.
- Add sea salt and bake for 9-10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let the pizza cool for 5 minutes. Add fresh chopped basil and balsamic glaze.
- Cut the pizza into 4 large squares and serve!
Notes
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Love all things caprese.
Hi Sandy,
Another winner from you. Thank you so much we loved it!
We used Trader Joe’s balsamic glaze and added TJ salami slices. Best to you, Jackie in Virginia