White Pizza
This white pizza is a simple recipe with all the delight of your favorite pie without the red sauce. Made with just seven ingredients, it can be on the table in 20 minutes.
Ingredients
- 16 oz plain pizza dough (I like Trader Joe’s)
- 1 ½ cup fresh mozzarella cheese shredded
- 1 TB Parmesan cheese grated
- 3 cloves garlic minced
- 1 TB olive oil
- 5 tsp ricotta cheese
- ½ tsp ½ tsp Oregano or Italian seasoning
- ¼ tsp kosher salt
- 1 TB semolina or cornmeal
Instructions
- With a pizza stone in the oven, preheat oven to 400℉.
- Whisk together the olive oil, garlic, Parmesan cheese and salt.
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough so that it’s about ⅛ “ thick.
- Sprinkle pizza peel with semolina or cornmeal (to help the dough slide off the peel and onto the pizza stone).
- Place dough on pizza peel. Using your fingers or a pastry brush, spread the olive oil mixture on the dough.
- Sprinkle dough with mozzarella cheese.
- Evenly spoon dollops of ricotta across the pie.
- Sprinkle pizza with oregano.
- Transfer the pizza to the pizza stone. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until the cheese is lightly browned on top. Serve with a sprinkling of crushed red pepper flakes.
- (Alternatively, you can bake this without a pizza stone and pizza peel using a ¼ sheet pan.)