White Sauce Pizza Recipe

Closeup on a slice of white sauce pizza.

4.84 from 6 votes

This White Sauce Pizza Recipe is a creamy, indulgent twist on pizza night, loaded with your favorite toppings like sausage, bacon, peppers, and onions on a perfectly crispy homemade crust. Skip the red sauce and give this delicious white sauce recipe a try instead!

Course Appetizer, Main Dish

Cuisine American, Italian

Keyword white pizza with bacon and mushrooms, white sauce pizza recipe

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 15

For the homemade dough 1 15

Total Time 1 50

Servings slices

Calories 216kcal

Author Sue Ringsdorf

Ingredients

1 pizza crust - I used my homemade pizza dough
1 cup mozzarella cheese - shredded
your choice of toppings

For the white sauce:

1 ½ Tablespoons unsalted butter
1 ½ Tablespoons all-purpose flour
2/3 cup 2% milk
1/4 cup parmesan cheese - freshly shredded
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper - to taste

Instructions

Follow my simple recipe for Homemade Pizza Dough. This dough is pretty quick, and you can mix it up about an hour before you start the pizza assembly. It really does make the BEST pizza! (You can also purchase dough for this recipe.)
1 pizza crust
Make white sauce. In a small saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add flour and whisk for a minute to let the flour fully absorb into the butter. Then add the milk and turn up heat slightly to bring it to a simmer. Let it thicken. Add the parmesan cheese, salt, and pepper – and stir until melted. Remove from heat.
1 ½ Tablespoons unsalted butter, 1 ½ Tablespoons all-purpose flour, 2/3 cup 2% milk, 1/4 cup parmesan cheese, kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
Prepare toppings. Here is where you can get creative. We like to use whatever we have on hand. Try sausage, bacon, mushrooms, peppers, onions, etc.
your choice of toppings
Assemble pizza. Arrange the dough on stone or pan. You can roll it out thin or keep it thicker. Add the white sauce and smooth to all sides of the dough. Then add prepared toppings and mozzarella cheese. You can also add some extra parmesan cheese to the top.
1 cup mozzarella cheese
Bake or grill pizza at a high temperature. We use at least 475-500 degrees in the oven or at least 500 degrees on the grill. Pizza is done when the bottom of the pizza is nice and golden brown.

Notes

For all of my pizza recipes, you can choose to bake them 1) in cast iron skillets in the oven or on a grill, 2) on baking sheets in the oven, or 3) on pizza stones in either the oven, grill, or smoker. We tend to rotate how we cook them based on the weather outside and how many people we are feeding.

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