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#1 ·
How do you make your white pizza?  I'm making pizza today and due to some dietary restrictions I can't eat tomatoes.  So I need some ideas for white pizza.

I have some pesto, I have basil, mozzarella, cream cheese, ricotta and parmesan.  Where do I go from here?

Has anyone ever made pizza with mornay?
 
#2 ·
The easiest way to make a white pizza is to just make it without the sauce.

Use all the toppings you want without any sauce. If you feel you need to have a sauce an ALFREO sauce works best.
 
#4 · (Edited)
Onion pizza is really good. Caramelized onions (not too much), mozzarella, parmesan, oregano, pepper flakes.

We make an outstanding "fugazzeta" -onion on top, mozzarella filled pizza- in Argentina:


but is rather complicated for first timers.
 
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This one is a little "out of the box" but bare with me.  One of my favorite pizzas is a BBQ chicken pizza, but not the kind you find at most places that use their standard pizza sauce then put BBQ chicken on top or use BBQ sauce as the pizza sauce-both are nasty in my opinion.  Instead, I juice corn kernals.  I then slowly cook that juice until it thickens, which it does on it's own due to all the starch in the juice.  I then use that as the base sauce for my BBQ Chicken Pizza.  I bet it would also be great topped with plain grilled chicken and drizzled with pesto.
 
#7 ·
The alfredo sounds nice, can't eat onions though, have to avoid.

We'll see what happens.  Because it's evening now the creamy sauces are unappealing because they're heavy.  I have to keep it light.  I'm going to wing it and I think I'll make a few different kinds.
 
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#10 ·
I should think there are plenty options.

With the ingredients you mentioned you can make a nice pizza, Pesto, basil & cheeses sounds good to me.

How about just some tapenade or tapenade and cheese?

Fried onion and anchovies will work a dream as well.

Mushroom & cheese

Don't forget the garlic!
 
#12 · (Edited)
White pizza in many places is called "" Margaritta""     I use a very light Alfredo type sauce with ,  3 Cheeses, fresh Basil, Parsley  and ,White Mushrooms, on a thin crust  only. I cut it smaller then regular slices as it is richer.
 
#14 ·
@French Fries wow, that looks so good!

@GeneMachine my first thought was Flammkuchen but I don't have sourdough starter. I need to find or make. This was done with basic dough.

So I made a basil pesto pizza with mozzarella


And a white pizza with just mozzarella, cream cheese, parmesan and then pepperoni, orange peppers and mushrooms.


I may never want a red pizza again!
 
#19 ·
Alfredo is good, an aiolli pesto blend isn't bad either. For a total shift, go Chinese. At about the half way point, Yan starts on the pizza.



He sauces with a hoisin base. In this episode he blends in some tomato sauce but you can skip that and he has in other variations I've seen him do. I usually do this with some commercially prepared Char Sui pork, mushrooms, green onion and a very thin layer of plain hoisin sauce. Some garlic chili sauce or sambal oelek would be good in the sauce base too. Or just serve with some sriracha sauce.

http://www.grillpower.com/images/yan.pdf has another variation of his pizza.
 
#20 ·
And here in the NY, Florida and Georgia its called just plain pizza
 
#21 ·
For the sauce, mix a head of mashed roasted garlic with a touch of olive oil to make a paste.  Leave it as thick as possible or the excess oil runs all over.  Top the dough lightly with each of the following; Parmesan, Asiago, Provolone, and Mozzarella.   Delicious and your breath keeps vampires away for hours.  Enjoy.
 
#24 ·
@chefedb in and around upstate NY a white pizza is not just called pizza, nor margarita, it's more along the line of what @eastshores is describing and includes an oiled crust with fresh motz, ricotta and either parm or romano or a combo of the 2, usually includes roasted onions and garlic, and fresh basil some include tomato slices and black olives. Have had them with white anchovies embedded into the crust, portabello shrooms and even white truffle, it's a beautiful thing. chefed, I'm in Ft. Lauderdale area, any places you know of?
 
#25 ·
I sometimes use garlic and the olive oil it poached in. Then drizzle with honey and top with cheese.

I had an amazing fig and raisin jam, with fontina, prosciutto and goat cheese the other day. Stealing that!

Pesto.

Mushroom, spinach or broccoli in a white sauce.

My favorite pizza to make is Pax Romana. Divided into 3 wedges like a peace sign. Pesto (green) alfredo or garlic honey(white) and tomato (red) Something for everyone, it keeps the peace.
 
#26 ·
I'm a little late chiming in but the best pizza I ever had, period, was in a recent trip to France.  I don't think there was anything particularly special about the crust of the basic white sauce they usd, but they put in few bits of carmalized onion, and this absolutely amazing smoked pork, the name of which I forgot to get.  Anyways, white pizza just seems to be made for smoked pork and onion.

Rick
 
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