White Pizza By Littlesponger I Made It

White Pizza by Littlesponger

chuckieb 13 years ago
I made Littlesponger's
White Pizza With Fresh Tomatoes And Basil
for lunch today. I had a blast. I haven't made a homemade pizza in forever. And this was the first time I'd ever used the food processor to make up the dough. How fun and easy was that?
Littlesponger says "Once you see how simple pizzas are to make, you will never order one to be delivered again.", and she's absolutely right. I'm sold.
The dough makes enough for three pizzas so I froze two dough balls for future use.
The "Garlic Oil" smells like heaven while it's cooking. WOW! I actually used the entire amount on the one pizza. That did turn out to be a mistake as I had some excess oil running off the pizza and causing a little flare up in the BBQ, but it wasn't bad.
Was really disappointed to find that the grocery store was out of basil so I was missing a key ingredient.
I decided today was the day I also wanted to christen my new pizza stone and cook the pizza out on the BBQ. So I spread my dough out on the stone, loaded on the toppings and then cooked the pizza on the BBQ which was set to 350F for about 18 minutes. The crust was gorgeous. Just gorgeous. Nice and thin and crunchy and a lovely golden brown. I was quite proud of myself! :)
Although the white sauce was good, the next time we make it we're going to try a traditional Margherita pizza with the tomato sauce, cheese and basil.
Thank you Littlesponger for a most excellent recipe and for proving to me that making homemade pizza is very much worth the effort. Kudos! :)
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Good4U 13 years ago said:

Oh Wow! That looks just delicious, Janet! I have never done one on the BBQ yet and I really don't know why? I am going to make a point of trying it now. Thanks for the thumbs up on this post:-)

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sparow64 13 years ago said:

That looks fabulous Janet!!!! MMMM!!! I gotta try this.

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frankieanne 13 years ago said:

Oh, wow, that looks so good! Another one here who has never bbq'd a pizza. Nice job!

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cherylnail 13 years ago said:

That looks delicious, i have been wanting to make homemade pizza, and you just inspired me!

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mrpiggy 13 years ago said:

That looks awesome Chuckie. Not only have I never BBQ'd a pizza. I have never made one from scratch. And I LOVE pizza. I just havent gone there yet. I need to get a pizza stone. Thanks for the heads up : )

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gourmetana 13 years ago said:

This sounds amazing! I had BBQ'd pizza before. It is so goooooooooood! Great review Chuckieb!

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chuckieb 13 years ago said:

I remember when I was a kid and we used to make up those Kraft pizza mixes that came in a box with the sauce and the crust ingredients and such. :)
Thanks everyone for such nice comments. It truly was a lot of fun to do this and when it turned out so well it was really rewarding. Littlesponger's step-by-step instructions were excellent and I really think the pizza stone helped give it that 'wood fired oven' look/texture.

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chuckieb 13 years ago said:

Just wanted to add a bit more info as I made this recipe for the second time last night. This time I made two pizzas up and since I only own one pizza stone I did one on a regular non-stick metal pizza pan so I was able to compare the results. Hands down the Pizza stone does a nicer job on the crust. Because the stone is thicker the crust cooks slower. The crust on the metal pan cooked quite a bit quicker and infact I slightly scorched the bottom. I also used fresh mozzarella/bococcini on one pizza and just regular grated mozzarella from a block on the other. The Bococcini was the winner. It melts more evenly and we found the regular mozzarella tasted a lot more processed and formed an elastic type layer on the top. This time I also forgot to spread a little bit of olive oil on the top of the crust before I added the tomato sauce and the crust doesn't brown up as nicely on the edges if you forget to do that. I'm learning, I'm learning! :)

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Good4U 11 years ago said:

Another review
White Pizza With Fresh Tomatoes And Basil

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