This is not your typical pizza recipe. There is no marinara sauce to be found. I think that’s a nice deviation from the norm. Instead, the red sauce is replaced with ricotta cheese, toppings, mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses. So this white pizza doesn’t have an actual “sauce” on it. The toppings are all it needs.
How to make Homemade Pizza Dough:
Active dry yeast and warm water are combined with warm water briefly until the yeast is activated. Then it’s mixed with flour and salt to create a dough. That dough is kneaded out until a smooth and elastic texture is achieved. Then the pizza dough is placed into a bowl and set aside to rest and rise for about an hour. At that point, the pizza dough will be ready to punch down and roll out to make your white pizza.
How to make White Pizza:
The first thing you’ll do is pre-bake the dough on a pizza pan or baking sheet. Then you’ll cook the bacon, onion and mushrooms in a skillet. A lot of white pizza recipes call for using some type of Alfredo sauce. This white pizza is a lighter version. No Alfredo is necessary. Instead, you’ll spread skim ricotta cheese on the pre-baked crust, and then top the ricotta with arugula, bacon, onion and mushrooms. Mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses are sprinkled on top. Then the pizza is ready for its 15 minutes in the oven.
After baking, you can slide your white pizza onto a good-sized cutting board and use a pizza cutter to cut slices.
If you happen to be following the Weight Watchers program, this pizza should be divided into 6 equal slices. Each slice will count as 6 points on any color WW program. And if you’re not following any kind of diet, you will just appreciate that this white pizza isn’t quite as heavy as the usual pizzeria pizza. Enjoy!
Here are a few more pizza recipes you might like to try:
Weight Watchers Pizza Sausage and Scrambled Egg Pizza Bertucci’s Nolio Pizza French Bread Pizza Cast Iron Pizza Meatball Pizza Mushroom Pizza with Fresh Herbs Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza
