New Recipe Review: Pizza Without the Red Sauce

We tried this Pizza Without the Red Sauce for dinner tonight and it is absolutely going to be one that we'll try again.

The Verdict: Keeper! The sauce combination is super good with lots of flavor. We were a little worried that there was too much garlic, but it cooks out and really isn't too overpowering.  I'm also a little hesitant to have veggies like tomatoes and spinach on my pizza.  Sometimes either the texture of the tomatoes or flavor of the spinach is too much for me to handle.  But I'm glad to say that the depth of this pizza had everything and I wouldn't say that anything was overpowering the other, but complimenting it nicely.

Changes: Instead of the sweet onion, we did green onion instead.  It turned out really nice.  The only reason I didn't do sweet onion is because we didn't have one on hand.  Not an onion that we use really ever.  We also didn't really get much heat from the jalapeno. So because they don't seem to stay fresh for very long, I think we would bypass the jalapeno in the future and just add either a little cayenne pepper or red pepper flakes to add some heat.

I would definitely try this if you haven't.  It is definitely another great recipe to add to our pizza collection.

Some other of our favorite pizza recipes:  Garlic Chicken Pizza, Barbecue Chicken Pizza and the classic Pepperoni Pizza.

Garlic Chicken Pizza

Pizza is a definite favorite in our household.  We eat it on a pretty regular basis and of course I try to do mostly homemade.  Well I had listed on our menu pizza and I wanted to branch out of our normal red sauce pepperoni pizza.  So if any of you have been to Papa Murphy's you probably know they have a fabulous Garlic Chicken Pizza with white sauce.  So here is my recreated version.

Garlic Chicken Pizza

Ingredients

For the Sauce:
2 Tablespoons butter
3 Tablespoons flour
1 cup warm milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 minced garlic clove
1/2 Tablespoon dried basil
1/2 cup pizza cheese (just use whatever you are putting on the pizza.  I like to get the Great Value Italian Style shredded cheese)

For the pizza:
Pizza Dough (I recommend this one)
Pizza Cheese
2 chicken breasts, cooked
1 1/2 - 2 Roma Tomatoes, diced
1/2 - 3/4 cup green onions, diced

For the sauce:
Heat butter on medium-high heat in small sauce pan.  Add flour and stir until thoroughly mixed.  Let butter/flour cook for 1 minute, stir constantly to avoid burning.

Slowly whisk in milk, adding gradually.  You want to be sure milk is warm.   It will help in thickening process.  Stir in remaining ingredients and keep on heat until it's to desired thickness, stirring constantly.

For the pizza:
Par-bake pizza dough.  (I would recommend on a pizza stone, at 450 for about 3-4 minutes).  This will help with sogginess from the sauce.  Once par-baked, spread a little olive oil on crust.  Add sauce, cheese, chicken, tomatoes and green onions.  Cook for another 5-10 minutes until done.