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My take on the classic white pizza (pizza bianca)! This white pizza is made without ricotta cheese, loads of mozzarella cheese and olive oil, an abundance of garlic, and the easiest thin crust for a restaurant-quality pizza right at home!
Homemade White Pizza (Pizza Bianca)
Every time I go to a pizzeria, I’m always so torn as to what to order. I tend to go with the classics – a plain cheese pizza or an extra-loaded pepperoni pizza. However, years ago, I tried a white pizza, also known as a pizza bianca on some menus, and my goodness. I fell in love with the absence of red sauce. Give me all the cheese and garlic, please! Some high quality extra virgin olive oil on top and for dipping, too!
Usually white pizzas have ricotta but when I made this homemade version, I omitted it as I didn’t have it on hand at the time and trust me – it’s still just as good! It still has all the garlicky and cheesy flavors.
What Is White Pizza?
If you’re wondering what the heck white pizza is, white pizza is a pizza that is made without red sauce (tomato sauce). It’s topped with white cheeses and typically has an olive oil and garlic base. It is often times called white pizza on menus but can also be called pizza bianca, pizza bianco, or pizza blanco.
How to Make White Pizza
Making white pizza at home is super easy. You can either use store-bought pizza dough or make your own thin crust pizza dough with this recipe! Then, all you really need are basic ingredients like olive oil, garlic, and cheese!
Tips for Making White Pizza at Home
- Grate your own cheese! It helps it melt so much more beautifully and smoothly. Store-bought cheese contains a bunch of add-ins to prevent clumping, and that can make your pizza topping starchy and chalky.
- Just the right amount of cheese and not more! We love cheese, but if you load on too many toppings, your pizza is going to get soggy.
- Invest in a pizza stone or pizza steel. It makes the pizza crust turn out SO much better and crispier. The ability to retain high heat really helps when making pizzas at home.
Storage and Reheating Instructions
Allow leftovers to cool then individually wrap pizza slices in plastic wrap or foil and refrigerate for up to 3 days. To reheat, use an air fryer (preferred method) until warmed through or use a toaster oven until warmed through. A microwave can work but the air fryer and toaster oven keeps the pizza nice and crispy!
White Pizza
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 recipe for pizza dough
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 ½ teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 cups (224 g) shredded whole-milk mozzarella cheese
- 1 ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
- Salt, to taste
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees Fahrenheit and lightly flour a 13-inch pizza pan.
- Using your hands, gently stretch the dough in the pizza pan.1 recipe for pizza dough
- Leaving a 1-inch border from the edge, brush olive oil and minced garlic all over the dough. It's okay if the minced garlic doesn't cover all the space. Sprinkle garlic powder evenly over the oil and garlic.3 tablespoons olive oil, 3 cloves garlic, 1 ½ teaspoons garlic powder
- Sprinkle mozzarella cheese all over top then the Italian seasoning and salt.2 cups (224 g) shredded whole-milk mozzarella cheese, 1 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning, Salt
- Bake for 12-13 minutes or until cheese is bubbling and the crust has browned around the edges.
- Allow to cool for about 5-10 minutes before slicing and serving.
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Photographs by Meg McKeehan Photography
You nailed the dilemma…white pizza or meat?! Love that you ended up with both!
Really wish my husband was not lactose intolerant… but then again we would eat things like this every day then, and weight 500lbs! Looks fab!
Love a good white pizza! Yours looks perfect!
it breaks my heart with those sad commercials, i feel helpless with those pets :( on a different note, the pizza looks delicious, i crave for white sauce every now and then,,
Oh my! YUM. I love this pizza :)
I’ve never had a white pizza before but you’ve certainly got me craving one now!
This looks like SUCH a good idea. I think the kids and I will be making pizza this week.
Both of our kitties are rescue animals. It IS heartbreaking to see where they come from. :(
We don’t always have a choice when it comes to our pets. I had two wonderful cocketiels that I dearly loved but I became allergic to the dander, and was sick for 5 months before I was diagnosed with an offshoot of bird flu. I had to give them up, bird cage, toys, birds, and all. It took me a good 6 months to get completely over the symptoms after countless hours of cleaning and re-cleaning the house. It was a beautiful sunny day when I brought them to a shelter, but the tears coming down made it rain all the way home, and for days after. Months later I would still find myself whistling to them to get an answer, go check to see why they were not answering, just to find the empty spot where the cage had been. It really is heartbreaking to SOME of us when we have to give up our feathered or furred babies like that.
Pizza looks yummy! If I didn’t already have the chicken out for cordon bleu for dinner, I know what I would be making instead!
So sorry that happened to you! :( hope you get to try this pizza sometime!
I feel the same; I can’t stand to think about people abandoning their pets. It seems so immature; did they think they would also be little puppies/kittens?
Anyways, on a not-so-angry note, this pizza looks delicious! A few nights ago my family and I were talking about how we needed to make a white pizza; I think this just might be the little nudge I needed to make it for dinner tomorrow :)
Sometimes seniors have to give up their pets when they can no longer look after them or they have to move into assisted living and they have no one to take them. It’s not always done willingly.
I didn’t think about that aspect of it – thanks for giving me another perspective :)