White Pizza From Heaven

Judy Mayberry · May 2014

I just downed a Pizza Bianca from "Mozza," a pizzeria that started in Los Angeles and has worked its way down to San Diego. The owner and James Beard Award-winning chef Nancy Silverton wrote the cookbook Mozza that tells how to make the awesome crusts and pizzas plus other dishes they serve. I stood at the Pizza Bar and watched them make it, and knew I had to find out what was in it.

I found the directions at Serious Eats:

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/07/top-this-pizza-bianca-a-la-pizzeria-mozza.html

AND you have to watch the slideshow too for complete directions:

http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/07/top-this-pizza-bianca-a-la-pizzeria-mozza-slideshow.ht ml#show-173055

The sottocenere cheese with truffles in it is sold at a high-end cheese shop here. Absolutely delicious. I got a little to grate over omelets.

The big surprise ingredient in a white pie? Read it for yourself!

RRP · May 2014

Thank you, Judy! Looks like a new addition to my "To Do list"!

Serial Griller · May 2014

Thanks for sharing!

The latest issue of Food & Wine ( the ultimate guide to grilling0 has one of Nancy's easy ( tomato oregano ) snack pizzas featured.

NPHuskerFL · May 2014

This brings me back to when SWMBO and I were stationed in Sicily. They would make a white pie in their pizza ovens (all wood burning) with fresh herbs etc. I miss their culture and the food (SWMBO has got the Bruschetta down to a T like they make it. I get the pies real close but I feel they still missing something). Eventually I'll get it down pat like I want :-). Thanks for sharing Ms. Judy.

Judy Mayberry · May 2014

NPHuskerFL said:

This brings me back to when SWMBO and I were stationed in Sicily. They would make a white pie in their pizza ovens (all wood burning) with fresh herbs etc. I miss their culture and the food (SWMBO has got the Bruschetta down to a T like they make it. I get the pies real close but I feel they still missing something). Eventually I'll get it down pat like I want :-). Thanks for sharing Ms. Judy.

So tell us how to make the almost-Sician white pies. I like white pies better than any other kind of pizza--"Less is More". Did it have garlic on it?

NPHuskerFL · May 2014

The only recipe I have is from a book we purchased while there (but, it is for the traditional pies). There were only 2 pizza locations I can recall that made a "white" pie the others were more traditional(both places I recall us having the white pies were located toward Taormina). I was simply saying my pies were close to theirs (but, I should've prefaced that with to their traditional pie).
The milk we got there was never cows milk it was either Geep milk or Parmalat (so I never was quite sure if their cheeses used dairy from Geep or if the cheese was imported because they mostly used fresh ingredients). I've always believed the pie as a whole the type of flour, the water in the dough, dairy products, type of tomatoes used for the sauce, type of wood used in their oven would all contribute to the flavor. And it has been almost 18 yrs since we were there (some memories fade). Yes, garlic was on the "traditional" pies. The white pies I've got nothin' (there isn't anything in my book either). So I would like to attempt the recipe you have so kindly shared. Sorry I wasn't able to share.

White Pizza From Heaven

Comments

Categories