Olive Garden Caprese Flatbread Recipe

If You enjoy Olive Garden's Caprese Flatbread, You will LOVE making it at Home with our Easy Recipe.

This simple Caprese Flatbread appetizer features mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and basil on a flatbread crust with a savory garlic aioli.

This recipe for Caprese Flatbread comes straight from Olive Garden. So you know that it will taste just like the real thing. Because it is the Real Thing!

Olive Garden Caprese Flatbread Recipe

Photo by Sean Svadilfari

           

Olive Garden Caprese Flatbread Recipe

Olive Garden Caprese Flatbread Recipe

If You enjoy Olive Garden's Caprese Flatbread, You will LOVE making it at Home with our Easy Recipe.

Ingredients
  • 8 Roma or Rlum Tomatoes, diced
  • 3 cloves Garlic, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground Black Pepper, to taste
  • 20 medium fresh Basil Leaves, stemmed and chopped (about 1/2 cup)
  • 14 tablespoons Extra Virgin Olive Oil, divided
  • One 11-ounce container Refrigerated Thin Crust Pizza Dough
  • 1 clove Garlic
  • 1 1/2 cups Mayonnaise
  • 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder
  • 4 cups shredded Mozzarella cheese
  • 1/2 cup Parmesan Cheese, grated
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Dice tomatoes into small pieces. Transfer to a mixing bowl.
  3. To tomatoes add chopped garlic, salt, pepper, 1/2 of chopped basil (about 1/4 cup), and 4 tablespoons olive oil. Set aside and allow mixture to marinate for about 10 minutes.
  4. Flatten pizza dough into rectangle pan as indicated on package, reaching to pan edges. Drizzle dough with olive oil and brush it over dough.
  5. Bake dough at 350°F for 10 minutes on center rack. Remove from oven and allow to cool slightly, about 2 minutes.
  6. Cut garlic clove in half and rub, cut side down, onto the surface of the bread. The slight warmth of the bread will help extract the garlic flavor. Allow bread to cool completely, about 10 more minutes.
  7. Increase oven temperature to 450°F.
  8. In a small mixing bowl, combine mayonnaise and garlic powder. Evenly spread mixture onto the bread’s surface.
  9. Top with shredded mozzarella to evenly cover surface.
  10. Drain tomato mixture. Spread evenly over the bread.
  11. Sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese.
  12. Return flatbread to oven for 5 - 7 more minutes or until golden, crisp and bubbly.
  13. Garnish with remaining chopped basil and serve.  
 
       

Photo of Caprese Flatbread is by Sean Svadilfari and is used by permission under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) License. Thank you, Sean. Great Picture. Photos may be "representative" of the recipe and not the actual finished dish. All photo licenses listed were correct at the time of the posting of the page. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission. Recipe from Olive Garden's Website, circa 2009, "Recipes" Page by way of the Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive. From the Olive Garden's Website Recipes Page - "At Olive Garden we are passionate about Italian cooking. We are pleased to share with you a collection of our Featured Recipes over the years that you can prepare at home—and share with your friends and family."