Are you in the mood for pizza without tomato sauce? You're in the right place!
When it comes to pizza, tomato sauce is a classic option. But not everyone likes or can eat tomato-based sauces (looking at you, my friends with GERD), and everyone deserves to enjoy eating pizza if they want to!
This collection of pizza recipes without tomato sauce just goes to show how creative you can get when it comes to pizza sauce and toppings. Don't limit yourself to tomato sauce when so many unique pizzas without tomato sauce exist!
And it's not just white pizzas either!
Here you'll find everything from barbecue sauce pizzas to, yes, a variety of white pizzas and even a chicken marsala pizza. The best part? These sauces and toppings work whether you're making thin crust pizza or thick crust pizza recipes!
It's probably no surprise to hear that as a trained pastry chef with a home cook mentality, I love using pizza to get creative with flavor pairings and toppings. Pizza is a great way to use up leftovers and turn them into something new, unique, and special!
While I'll never turn down a classic red sauce pizza moment, I love developing homemade pizza recipes without tomato sauces, because a whole new world of flavor options opens up. There’s no bland pizza pies around here— I promise.
1. Arugula and Prosciutto Pizza
Don't love arugula? Try this pizza with mâche, watercress, frisée or baby kale instead!
2. Breakfast Pizza Recipe with White Sauce & Baked Egg
Making the white sauce takes just under 10 minutes and the bacon and potatoes can cook in a toaster oven or on the stove while the oven preheats. Easy peasy!
3. Poutine Pizza (with Frozen French Fries)
Don't knock this one until you've tried it. Fries on a pizza might seem weird, but it's so good — the mozzarella and cheese curds with the rich dark brown gravy are a true cheese lovers dream!
4. Four Cheese White Pizza with Goat Cheese
5. South Carolina BBQ Pulled Pork Pizza
I often use leftover sous vide carnitas when I make this pizza, but the recipe does include instructions for making a small batch of pulled pork if you're working from scratch.
You can also use store bought pulled pork — just make sure it's fully cooked before it goes on the pizza!
6. Cheeseburger Pizza
For a truly tomato-free pizza, leave the tomatoes off this cheeseburger pizza!
7. Charcuterie Board Pizza
I promise you've never had a pizza like this before! It's so unique and the sweet-salty-crispy textures are so good.
8. Thick Crust Chicken Marsala Pizza (Cast Iron Skillet)
You can also use a half batch of my focaccia pizza dough for this chicken marasala pizza recipe!
9. Homemade Nutella Pizza for Dessert (Pizza Steel Recipe)
And finally, I'll finish off this list with my go-to olive oil white pizza sauce that I use 90% of the time when I make pizzas without tomato sauce.
I know it's not a whole pizza recipe, but it's a super versatile base for a pizza sauce that you can use when you dream up your own unique pizza creations without using tomato sauce!
10. Olive Oil Pizza Sauce for White Pizza
Phyllis Benvin
I love these ideas! I don’t always like tomato sauce. I live in the Detroit area and a pizzeria in my town makes a Greek pizza with feta, black olives, onions and peppers and a Detroit coney dog pizza with hot dogs, chili, onions and mustard. They are both quite popular.
Tomato-less
I'll admit, I got excited by this article title as I have a tomato allergy... little disappointed that 3 out of the 9 recipes still involved tomato as an ingredient, and the last recipe is just a repeat of the sauce from #4.
Rebecca Eisenberg
You can skip the tomato as an ingredient in any recipe that calls for it. And the final sauce is a base sauce that I use in several of the pizzas on this list, sometimes with minor changes or adjustments, I wanted to include it here so you can use it with any of your own personal favorite pizza toppings. I didn’t say this was a post specifically for people with tomato allergies. Just that none of the pizzas have a tomato based sauce. I’m sorry you couldn’t find what you were looking for here.
CarolTheArtist
I can’t do tomatoes either. So have made that sauce no. 4 but use it lightly, and then put mushrooms, pre-cooked Spicy sausage and sometimes zucchini; then I do a light sprinkle of grated Manchengo (I also can’t have cow dairy). This pizza is so good!