Pizza Toast with Basil & Garlic Sauce BLW [7-8m] Toddler & Family

Pizza toast is one of my favourite afternoon / after school snack as as kid! The topping for this dish is endless, you can’t go wrong! This is suitable for vegetarian and vegan if you omit goat cheese. 🙂

Whenever we have guests over, I sometimes make these as starters or bruschetta and they were a hit every time! 👍👍👍

I have only used 1.5 rye bread roll as lilbro C wanted and screaming for the other half! 🙈. He then deconstructed the whole piece and ate all of it! Yeah!  Toddler J had 2 pieces and mami the left over. 😂. They were so yummy!

Ingredients

• 1 heap cup of fresh basil leaves
• 3 tbsp olive oil
• 1 garlic (roughly chopped)
• cherry tomatoes (sliced)
• bread (I used rye bread rolls, you use any type of bread. ciabatta is great too then you’ll get a bruschetta type)
• goat cheese (grated)
• pinch of salt

Method

Slice the bread rolks in slices approximately 2cm thick. You can use bread rolls, toast bread or ciabbatta bread.

Prepare the basil.

Preheat oven to 200°C with the pizza stone inside. Place basil, chopped garlic, oil and salt in a blender.

Blend until you reach a saucy consistency. Add more oil to make it more saucy, if needed. Can be made ahead, put it in a sealed jar/container and refrigerate up to 2 days.

Spread the basil sauce over the bread slices evenly. Place the bread slices on a hot pizza stone if you have one, if not on baking tray covered with a baking sheet. Spread the basil mixture over the bread slices and bake for 5 mins. This is to cook the garlic.

Take out and sprinkle with goat cheese and cover with slices of tomatoes.  Put them back in the oven and bake for another 5-7 minutes.

Serve warm. For adults sprinkle with salt & pepper.