White pizza may be less common than its tomato-sauce counterpart, but it's no less delicious if done correctly. A great white pizza features the flavors of the cheese and crust, isn't too greasy and will please a variety of palates. Although it's sometimes most convenient to just pick up a tray of white pizza at a restaurant, you can make your own at home if you have the right ingredients on hand. To simplify the process, use premade foods and make extra pizza so you can enjoy leftovers.
Step 1
Buy a prebaked pizza crust or ready-made pizza dough. Pat raw dough out into a circle that's the size of the pizza you need.
Step 2
Transfer your crust or dough circle onto a pizza pan. You can also use a pizza stone if you have no pan. To make it easy to slide the pizza onto the stone when you're ready to bake, place the crust on a generously floured pizza peel or a sheet of parchment paper.
Step 3
Sprinkle packaged, grated cheese evenly onto your pizza crust. Mozzarella is a classic choice, but you can mix it with other varieties, such as cheddar or Swiss, for purposes of varying the texture and flavor of the finished pie. If you like, add dried herbs or Italian seasoning to the top of the pie at the same time you put on the cheese. To reduce fat and calories, use part-skim mozzarella, as "Cooking Light" magazine recommends in a recipe for white pizza from its March 2004 issue.
Step 4
Preheat the oven to the temperature specified in your pizza recipe.
Step 5
Add toppings to your pizza. Any conventional toppings, such as pepperoni, mushrooms, sausage, olives and peppers work well, but so do less conventional options, including broccoli, spinach, ham or cooked ground beef.
Step 6
Place the pizza pan in the oven or slide the pizza onto the hot pizza stone.
Step 7
Bake the pizza as directed in your recipe, stopping a few minutes before it's supposed to be done to check its progress.
Step 8
Remove the pizza from the oven, let it cool and serve.
Tips and Warnings
- If you're using a pre-baked crust for your white pizza, there's no need to bake the pie for a long time. Instead, try placing it under the broiler or very high heat until the toppings soften and the cheese melts and begins to brown around the edges. You can make sauce for your white pizza by mixing dried herbs with ricotta or cottage cheese and spreading it on the pie before you top with more cheese, as OChef.com suggests.
Things You'll Need
- Pizza pan
- Pizza crust
- Cheese
- Oven
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