These are an insanely quick & easy lunch, coming together in less than 5 minutes start to finish. And so delicious, you will be amazed!
I was craving pizza but didn’t want to deal with rising dough or a hot oven on a sweaty summer day, so I came up with these when I spied the tostada shells on my counter. You only need your broiler on in the oven for a couple minutes and you’ve got hot, melty, crispy pepperoni pizzas. I bet these would be a huge hit with the kiddos, too. Bonus for those with gluten sensitivity: they’re gluten-free! Score.
Tostada Pizzas
Printable recipe
Printable recipe with picture
You will need:
Tostada shells
Pizza sauce (here‘s a quick and easy recipe that requires no cooking)
Mozzarella cheese, shredded
Pepperoni
Other toppings of choice*
Line a baking sheet with foil and set aside. Spread a tablespoon of pizza sauce over each tostada shell, then sprinkle with cheese and toppings. Broil on high for 1-2 minutes, keeping the oven light on so you can remove them before they burn. They cook quickly so do keep an eye on them-mine took just a little over a minute to get melty and hot. Serve immediately.
*Be careful with adding too many veggies as they could water out and make the crispy tostada shells soggy.
A Veronica’s Cornucopia original
Wow, this is great, perfect for me while I’m in school, especially since I can make single servings.
Totally!
Love mini pizzas! Your pizza sauce link is not highlighted…just an FYI :)
Thanks, Suzie, I totally forgot to link to it–I fixed it!
Nice! I need to keep an archive of these easy recipes somewhere. I have a sense that come October it may be all I can handle. =)
For sure. Or maybe start having your friends sign up on a list to make you food every day of the week for three months. :)
How creative! A perfect simple snack. I know I’d love the crunch from the tostadas!
The crunch is fab! I was surprised how much I liked it b/c I prefer thick, soft crust and never get thin crust. But I just loved these.
These are the cutest and delicious Italian-mex mix up :D
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Hehe, I love fusion foods! So fun. :)
Ooooh…where’s the pizza sauce recipe? I love making pizzas but have yet to find the perfect sauce. :)
Thanks for catching my omission, I updated the recipe with the link to the sauce recipe. I hope you like this one, it’s so easy and very tasty.
We make little pizzas like this too, so simple and quick. When it is 100+ outside all summer you find ways to use the heck out of your toaster oven, and these fit nicely.
Totally, I wish I had one of those flat toasters! All we have is the vertical slot kind, which so doesn’t help with summer baking. Boohoo. :(
My family will love these. They look and sounddelicious. Have a great day. Blessings…Mary
Thanks Mary!
It surprised me how good these were.
Oh! YUM!
Another smack in the head of: Now why didn’t I think of such a brilliant idea?
We do this with soft tortilla but I never thought of the tostadas before. I just saw them yesterday at the store and thought to buy them. I think I’ll pick some up next time, you’re right, the kids will love them!
What a great, quick lunch idea. My teenage boys would especially love it.
Very creative idea! I love it. I sometime wish I had a little counter top toaster oven so I could “bake” a single serving something and not feel like I am waisting energy.
Great lunchtime idea!
gracias por compartirnos esta brillante idea!!!!!