[koukouvagia]

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?

 

[berndy]

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.

 

[berndy]

ALFREDO

 

[ordo]

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:

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• ordo
• Jan 10, 2015

but is rather complicated for first timers.

 

[pete]

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.

 

[brianshaw]

Potato and onion.  Google "Sullivan Street"

 

[koukouvagia]

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.

 

[seanne]

I like to make a cream of broccoli sauce for my girlfriend, who also can't have tomatoes.

 

[french fries]

I make a sans-tomatoes pizza, not sure if that qualifies for white pizza... I just brush the pizza dough lightly with olive oil, then sprinkle sliced red onions and bake. Meanwhile I prepare a creme fraiche+ dill+white pepper and put smoke salmon on it. Sprinkle with chives. A Wolfgang Puck recipe.

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• french fries
• Jan 11, 2015

In fact you may want to revisit that thread: http://www.cheftalk.com/t/44415/what-are-some-good-non-tomato-based-pizza-sauces

 

[butzy]

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!

 

[genemachine]

By all means go with the Flammkuchen I recently posted in the "dinner" thread. Cream cheese instead of the sour cream should work nicely, too. Not particularly authentic, but certainly good.

 

[chefedb]

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.

 

[genemachine]

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.

In Europe, a pizza margarita is definitely tomato based. Tomatoes, basil, mozzarella, pecorino, olive oil, salt pepper

 

[koukouvagia]

@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

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• koukouvagia
• Jan 11, 2015

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

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• koukouvagia
• Jan 11, 2015

I may never want a red pizza again!

 

[butzy]

@Koukouvagia:

Those are looking very nice !!!!

And I agree with @GeneMachine: to me a pizza marguarita is tomato, basil and cheese. But then, I am a European as well /img/vbsmilies/smilies/cool.gif

 

[pete]

Those look tasty!!!!

 

[koukouvagia]

I urge people to try cream cheese on a pizza.  Nobody listens to me.

 

[ordo]

Good looking pizzas.  Among the many variations, there's also a classic Roman Pizza Bianca, made with mortadella.

In Italy, sometimes Pizza Bianca means just a Focaccia.

 

[phatch]

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.

 

[chefedb]

And here in the NY, Florida and Georgia its called just plain pizza