for all craving pizza try pizza without tomato sauce!

[butterfly79]

I know for those who have never tried pizza without tomato sauce you are saying
oh please what's the point,
without the sauce it's not pizza anymore
well I have news
it is! (you can add friendly non tomato sauce to it like a light cream sauce)
I tried it, just crust from the store, frozen pizza kind, and some mozorella cheese and mushrooms and
spinich
and baked it and although it is not the best pizza , it satifies my craving for pizza!
I would suggest to try this
add everything that is IC friendly
HOLd off on the tomato sauce!!
let me know if anyone else likes it this way!
it actually still tastes pretty good

[blue]

Boo Hoo! I love tomato sauce!

[kadi]

Hey, I found whole wheat pizza crust dough at Trader Joe's! (Don't get the TJ's regular pizza crust dough because it has acid in it, but the whole wheat doesn't!)

I'm wondering if I could use it to make calzones?
I'm thinking of cooking some frozen spinach & mixing it with mushrooms, ricotta & mozzarella, dried basil, oregano, garlic, salt, and putting that like a filling inside the pizza dough. Could be good or really gross? Anybody got any ideas?

Back to the pizza question - what can you use for a cream sauce? Store bought Alfredo sauce does not agree with bladder:( Rats! Ideas anybody?

[ICNDonna]

We used to have pizza every Friday evening --- and I always ordered a small one without sauce --- then one day my family decided to taste mine and they liked it better that way so when we order a pizza, we order it without sauce.

It's been a long, long time since I tasted tomato, but I do like pizza without sauce.

Donna

[Sharon]

I use a mix of olive oil, butter and garlic in place of the tomato sauce, and then add chopped fresh basil on top of the cheese.

[cookie707]

I make "white" pizza all the time and my bladder does not rebel. I coat the dough in a bit of olive oil, then spread ricotta cheese (as much or little as you'd like) evenly over the crust, then sprinkle mozzarella cheese, then parm cheese and bake it till it's all hot and bubbly. It's SOOOOO good...my family even eats it with me. I often bring white pizza to parties as an appetizer so that there will be something for me to eat!

I usually go to my grocery store's bakery and buy a one-pound loaf of their uncooked bread dough...bring it home, let it rise in a plastic bag a couple hours, then coat it in olive oil (lightly) before spreading out on my pizza stone. I do bake the crust (400 degrees) for about 10 minutes prior to putting the ricotta/mozz/parm on top...keeps the crust from being mushy in the middle!

[kadi]

Sounds great, Cookie. I'll definitely try it. Trader Joe's makes a whole wheat pizza dough without acid preservatives. (Their regular dough does have acid in it, so make sure to get the whole wheat dough).

[lindy lou]

There is hope for pizza again! Will Boboli work for crust?

[cookie707]

Yes...Boboli crust will do fine...no need to pre-cook it first! Enjoy!

[~*~Christine~*~]

Boo Hoo! I love tomato sauce!
lol! Ditto to that. I know it's bad for me but I'll take the pain to eat tomato sauce pizza. For me, it's worth it :)

[KEC]

Has anyone tried alfredo sauce? Then add spinach, mushrooms. Kathy

[PikkuMyy]

We're vegan so we don't do the white pizza thing. My husband brushes the crusts with olive oil and they soak in while we saute onions, mushrooms, eggplant, red peppers, and garlic with herbs; and make a meat substitute (like seitan) fried up to put on top. We make the veggies minced so that they make a very thick sauce to spread on top and put the meat on top with olives. It is really good - I like it better than when we made them with less veggies and sauce.

[Derby]

My husband and I go out for pizza about once a week to a local pub. They know about my special diet and are great about accommodating for me. We have been enjoying pizza without the sauce since I was diagnosed in the spring of 2002. I don't think I could eat it with suace again.

Jeni

[VickiB]

The first time someone mentioned pizza without the sauce I thought, sure!,..that's like a three legged donkey in a field of tall grass! -Looks like a donkey from a distance, but when you hitch it up, it ain't about to pull the cart! Eventually, (out of desperation for the taste of pizza) I gave it a try, and was quite surprised at how good it is!

Like others, my family has even taken a liking to it. So now we just order 1 large pizza, -no sauce!

Vicki

[kadi]

Do you have them do anything special to the cheese?? Or just use mozzarella???

[VickiB]

Just plain old mozzarella for me. They keep offering to put alfredo sauce on the pizza instead of tomato. They tell me others order it that way,...could there possibly be someone besides me with IC up here? Anyway, I've not had the courage to try that yet!

Vicki

[Derby]

We order no sauce and just mozzarella cheese...

Jeni

[talksick]

I was looking at the papa johns website and it says that they dont use any MSG in anything and that their veggies dont have preservatives. So I wonder if their white pizza with alfredo sauce would be ok for us. I didn't see anything listing the ingredients for their pizzas but I'm gonna go back and take a closer look at the site. Hmmm but I guess alfredo sauce usually has bad cheese in it.
Probably the best thing to do for pizza is go to a local pizza place and tell them you just want mozzarella. I think there is a local place near me that makes one with ricotta, mozzarella, and parmesan. But people usually have problems with parmesan huh? Maybe I'll go there and ask for just ricotta and mozzarella.

Kim

[mom_in_ma]

I'm with the others, I actually prefer it without the sauce! Yum. Give me bread and cheese and I'm a happy camper.

[lindy lou]

We used to get fund raiser kits from Little Caesars called Italian Cheese Bread. You would get 3 frozen squares of dough, the cheese in individual pks and the butter garlic sauce for about $12. Keep it in the freezer, make it up and in 7 minutes, heaven! I suppose you could even top it off with some veggies and stuff. You may be able to order it at a Little Caesars Pizza if you have them near you. If you have the desire to sponsor a fund raiser for some favorite group or see one at a church or a school, it's a great deal. I organized them a couple of times for our church youth group. I may even be able to find the info to contact them if anyone is interested.
Linda

[RedLione]

What most of you are suggesting sounds like Focaccia bread. I make it, or pizza, with a Pesto sauce, diced mushrooms and black olives, with a bit of Parmesean and Mozarella. Garlic doesn't bother me, nor does cheese, so Pesto sauce makes an excellent pizza sauce. I make my own dough, though. Thanks everyone for the recipe ideas! Now I know what to get at the grocery store tomorrow!

[Lily Chip]

Hey, I found whole wheat pizza crust dough at Trader Joe's! (Don't get the TJ's regular pizza crust dough because it has acid in it, but the whole wheat doesn't!)

I'm wondering if I could use it to make calzones?
I'm thinking of cooking some frozen spinach & mixing it with mushrooms, ricotta & mozzarella, dried basil, oregano, garlic, salt, and putting that like a filling inside the pizza dough. Could be good or really gross? Anybody got any ideas?

Back to the pizza question - what can you use for a cream sauce? Store bought Alfredo sauce does not agree with bladder:( Rats! Ideas anybody?
try chopping up fresh organic basil & oregano very fine and adding a few tablespoons of olive oil (make a "paste")--smear this all over the pizza crust instead of tomato sauce. Of course you gotta like basil...

[iclubbock]

i have found that eating pizza is like playing rushin rulett cause most places serve pineapple and they do not care rather or not they change gloves after using their hand to spread the pineapple on someonelses pizza; so we usually go to the store and I will purchase a piece from there because the deli doesnt use anything with pineapple. uness we make it at home, but there are some days I just chance it but those are few and far between anymore since i had the pineapple thing happen to me and ended up in the hospital lol. but I really love the ideas for some on here they are great i will try them.

[chloe's mom]

Note from Diet Forum moderator Kadi:
Some IC patients are ok with low acid home grown tomatoes, many IC patients are not. If you are currently symptomatic & do not yet know if you are ok with these kinds of tomatoes, you may not wish to try this...Also beware of onion powder, it is on the "ok to try if you are feeling better list" which means some IC patients are ok with it, others are not.

Hello! I also get a craving for a good slice of pizza every now and then! Last night was one of those nights so I made an IC-friendly version myself and have to share it with you!! (I have tried in the past the "alfredo" sauce pizza, the "pesto" sauce pizza and did not really care for them. TRY THIS RECIPE if you can get to some fresh garden tomatoes!! We grew our own tomatoes and herbs this summer, but lots of farmers are selling theirs off this time of year so they are available all over! Even in the city it is possible to grow them in a pot! I noticed that grocery store tomatoes are a no-no (I can only imagine the chemicals that are put into them that irritate our IC) but the list my dr. gave me said garden tomatoes are OK!! So:

1. Get out a bowl and combine 3 1/2 cups flour, 2 teaspoons active dry yeast, 3 tablespoons olive oil, 1 1/4 teaspoons salt. Add 1 1/3 cup warm water. (105-115 degrees, or I microwave mine for a minute and twenty seconds.) Mix into a dough. If too sticky, add a bit more flour. Cover with a damp cloth and let it rise 45 min to an hour. After that divide the dough in half. You can put the other half into the fridge in an airtight container overnight or freeze it up to a week.

2. I peeled the skin off of a few garden tomatoes, then diced them small and put them into a pan with seasonings to taste. I used oregano, sea salt, pepper, onion powder and garlic powder. (Maybe fresh garlic would have been even better?) Let simmer and get rid of extra liquid.

3. I bought a STONE for pizza at the grocery store. This needs to be preheated at 500-degrees for thirty minutes. (You could also use a baking sheet lined with parchment paper to make clean-up easier.)

4. When dough is ready, I like to put sesame seeds around the crust, then add the "sauce". To that I top with FRESH GARDEN BASIL, Parmesan cheese (we can have the kind that comes from the green can at the grocery store.) and to that added the very freshest water-packed mozzerella available. How long it cooks depends on how light or dark you like your crust. It can be doughy if you cook it at 500-degrees for 12 minutes, I cooked ours 17 minutes and thought it was just right, but if you like it dark you can cook it longer. I did not have ANY IC symptoms with this and I am quite sensitive. If in doubt, you could enjoy this with a glass of Evian and 2 Prelief! Bon Appetit!

[neoitvaluocsol]

I only like the pesto sauce pizza if the pesto is salty, otherwise it doesn't taste right to me.

I like to use the garlic-herb dough from trader joes, a salty pesto sauce with pan fried chicken pieces and broccoli, covered with mozzerella. That tastes pretty good to me. If you can eat grounded parm, I like to put that in the pesto.

Also something else really great is roasting garlic and smearing the soft garlic on the dough and eating that with cheese + basil or other toppings, like a Margherita pizza w/o the tomato sauce.

[Goldfinch]

The subject of substitutes for sauce on pizza has been discussed on many, many threads. I'm not wild about white pizza, and unfortunately I don't care for pesto. For me, the best suggestions for sauce have been the use of red bell peppers, which seem to be well tolerated by many ICers. They can be either steamed or roasted, and then, with the addition of salt and olive oil and garlic or onion (if those are okay for you) put in the blender until smooth. They can be roasted on a grill or under the broiler, and if you put them in a plastic bag for a few minutes after roasting, it's very easy to pull off the charred peel. Personally I leave a bit of blackened peel in the mix, and it gives the sauce a smoky flavor. The resulting sauce is a bit sweeter than tomato sauce, but it has its own charms and it tends to grow on you. If you use some bitter greens such as swiss chard as a topping that can balance out the sweetness a bit.

[baaaby11]

I've made the no-mato sauce from the recipe I found on here. Its not too bad. I mean, I LOVE acidity in food so naturally, I tasted it and automatically thought "it's too heavy. It needs some acid to brighten it."
So, really, it is no substitute for tomatoes but it's definitely not a bad sauce at all. I made some last night and froze some. It's so easy to do and here's a nice little tip. When freezing a sauce, put them into freezer bags and then lay them horizontally on a baking sheet. Put the baking sheet in the freezer until the packages are frozen. Then you can remove the sheet and you have nice, flat bags instead of weird bulky ones. It saves a lot of room in the freezer.

I have tried pesto many different ways. The other day, I made up two pizza crusts and made a pesto from kale. I also used sunflower seeds in the pesto so that might be something different for you to try if you can tolerate sunflower seeds. Then I topped my pizza with the pesto, mushrooms, and just a tiny bit of cheese. (I'm not a big cheese eater!) It came out really good. In fact, I liked it just as much as basil pesto. I wish I could give you the recipe for my pizza crust but that's where I fail on this forum because I can never give anyone measurements because it's very rare that I measure anything! haha