pizza: Is tomato sauce an absolute requirement to a pizza? What if the flat bread has cheese, mushrooms, pineapples, sausage, onions, bell peppers, and all the others common toppings but without the tomato sauce, is it still a pizza, or is there another name to it?|||That's called White Pizza. Yes, it's very common to make pizza with no tomato products. You need to use a little oil to get your cheese to melt, but I have White Pie all the time. Good question. My favorite pizza has not tomato sauce. Mozzerella cheese, olive oil, shrimp and garlic (plus some seasonings like oregano, salt and pepper).|||I would call that brushetta as opposed to pizza, but you can make pizza with sauces other than tomato. You could use barbecue sauce or alfredo sauce or even cream of mushroom soup.|||Its called a white pizza.|||There are pizzas without tomato sauce. Some use fresh tomatoes. One is a white pizza with Parmesan, sauteed garlic and olive oil and it is delicious. Bruschetta are small bread rounds, very crispy.|||I've seen pizza made out of soy sauce, add chicken and it's a teriyaki chicken pizza........tasty at first, but two to three slices of it, and it will leave you with a bad tummy ache.|||Use an olive oil base (brush it on lightly). This is great for veggie pizzas. You could also use an alfredo sauce as your base as well. These two go great with spinach, broccoli, zucchini, squash, onion, etc.|||Sure. I make grilled pizza all the time and use pesto instead of tomato sauce. I've also seen pizzas with BBQ sauce, refried black beans, all sorts of things instead of tomato sauce.|||White Pizza Pesto Pizza here is a site that lists the different types of Pizza. http://student.delta.edu/marykochaney/pr鈥?/a>|||PIzza is a pizza if you have dough, cheese and any of your favorite ingredients! Some alternatives to tomato sauce are alfredo sauce, olive oil, salsa, barbeque sauce (my personal favorite)..anything!|||YOU can make pizza any way YOU want. I make a Prime Rib pizza with cream cheese as the sauce layer. I also make a Chicken pizza with Alfredo sauce. There is NO limit to pizza with your imagination. Remember that cooking/baking is almost all opinion. What one person makes may not be tasty to another. Experiment and find YOUR likes and dislikes. Happy Friday !! : )|||I have heard this type of pizza is called "white pizza." Here's the recipe: White Pizza (Old Forge style) 1 double-crust rectangular pie, about 10" x 16" (six slices about 4" x 5") Crust Notes: This crust is different from the "standard" crust recipe I usually use, which is found in Pizza Basics.This is the recipe actually tested. 2-1/4 tsp instant yeast 3 C flour 1-1/2 tsp salt 1 C + 2 T warm water (about 105潞) 1-1/2 T olive oil Filling 2 C fontina cheese, shredded 2 C aged provolone cheese, shredded 2 C Cooper sharp American cheese, shredded (see the Comments attached to the post for discussion of alternatives) 1 T fresh rosemary (whole leaves, removed from stems - but see Addendum, below) Kosher salt Olive oil Preheat the oven to 400潞. Place all the crust ingredients in the bowl of a food processor with the steel blade and process until the dough clumps together and starts to ride around on the blade. Place dough in a bowl, coat it with 1 tablespoon olive oil, cover with clear plastic and allow to rise 'til doubled, about an hour and a half. Punch down the dough, knead it for a few seconds and then cut in half. Wrap one half tightly in plastic wrap. Roll the other half into a thin rectangular sheet, about the same size as the pan, with edges the same thickness as the center. (Use a dark-colored metal jelly roll pan.) Oil the pan with about 1-1/2 tablespoon olive oil and lay the crust in the pan. Roll out the other piece of dough to about the same size and shape. Cover the dough sheets with clean towels and allow to rise 30 minutes. Spread 1 tablespoon olive oil over the bottom crust, stopping half an inch from the pan edge. Mix the three cheeses and spread over the crust, again stopping half an inch from the pan edge. Salt lightly and drizzle 1 tablespoon olive oil over the cheese. Lay the top crust over the bottom crust and filling. Stretch the edges of the lower crust up and over the upper crust and crimp together to form a seal. Brush the top of the pizza liberally with water, then bake 15 minutes, or until just starting to brown. Brush the top liberally with olive oil and scatter on the rosemary. Bake an additional 10 minutes. Allow the pizza to rest 5-10 minutes before slicing.|||I have made and eaten Pierogie Pizza Crust of choice top with about 1/4 inch of mashed potatoes fried onions(fry in butter) put on top of potatoes(as many as you like) then add mozarella and/or provolone cheese. bake till golden crust and slightly brown on top(light) ALSO Barbecue Chicken Pizza: Use favorite BBQ sauce instead of tomatoe sauce then add small pieces of COOKED chicken then top with cheese. I also put some onions and green peppers on mine plus bacon bits(or fry and crumble some on is better) This is yummy and my family can't get enough of it. Bake as usual till done here is something TOTALLY DIFFERENT too: Vegetable Pizza (read on) 2 cans Pillsbury Crescent rolls 1 8 oz. cream cheese(room temp) 1 cup Hellman's mayo 1 pkg. (dry) ranch dressing TOPPING(s) 1/2 head caulif(broken into small flowerettes 1 green pepper(diced small) 1-2 carrots (THINLY sliced) 1/2 stalk broccoli(small flowerettes) All veggies are RAW 8 oz. mozarella and or provolone shredded Spread crescent rolls on a cookie sheet to form crust.Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes or till golden brown. COOL COMPLETELY Mix dressing, mayo, and cr. cheese. Spread on crust. Top evenly with rest of ing. Cut into squares and enjoy (cut with pizza cutter) *Hint: Easier to cut if chilled about an hr. first Keep refrigerated You can use any combo of veggies you like.|||The folks in Western New York (and I mean Buffalo/Niagara Falls areas NOT NYC) make great pizza! Lots of Italians around here. A standard on the menus is chicken finger pizza... buffalo style chicken fingers, hot sauce, blue cheese on a white pizza type sauce/olive oil. One local place has an awesome pizza they call a stinger... blue cheese sauce, purple onions, banana peppers, steak, chicken fingers (sauced how you like em), chunks of blue cheese and mozzarella. Sort of a combination if you can't decide on chicken fingers, a steak and cheese sub and pizza.|||Make a white pizza. Ricotta, mozzerella, fresh garlic. Really good!