Alfredo Pizza Sauce

Today, we're going to do something a little different. Pizza made with a tomato pizza sauce recipe is great, but we want something a little more...savory. Alfredo pizza is less "dormy" than a tomato-sauce pizza, and will often feature large chunks of chicken and garlic--sometimes even artichoke hearts. It's a good opportunity to experiment with other veggies as toppings, and it's quite hearty. Today, we're going to make an alfredo pizza. And an alfredo pizza starts with an alfredo pizza sauce recipe.

Here's what we need:

Breakfast Pizza

4 tablespoons of butter
1/2 teaspoon of salt
4 tablespoons flour
1 cup of cream
3/4 cup of fresh Parmesan cheese grated from a block

Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. Add the flour, salt, milk and cheese. It's important to stir fairly rapidly--cream, when heated, has a tendency to curdle. Once the ingredients have fairly well homogenized, turn the heat up to medium and stir constantly until the sauce has thickened. Turn the heat down and cover the sauce; you may choose to refrigerate it as well. Add more or less cheese depending on taste, remembering that adding too much will cause your sauce to thicken and bind.

I like to make my alfredo pizzas with chicken. You can use fresh chicken breasts, or frozen--that's my preference. Season as desired, pop them in the oven, and then section into morsels to spread on your pizza.

Veggie wise--some people like to put artichoke hearts on their pizza. I'm not really a fan of artichoke, so instead I feature purple onions, small pieces of kale, and largish pieces of garlic. It all depends on your taste. Just remember, because you used alfredo instead of tomato-based pizza sauce, you've painted with an entirely different palette.

Enjoy!

Alfredo Pizza Sauce

Brian Fain wants to share his pizza sauce recipe with the internet. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his cat, Reece, in an apartment he likes to keep refreshingly cold, and is a graduate of Western Washington University.

See more articles about pizza sauce recipes at his website.

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