Suggestions for Béchamel-based Pizza Sauces
May 9, 2018 7:41 AM Subscribe
I've successfully done 1+1 with tomato sauce, blended with blanched kale/spinach and basil.
What are other herbs or ideas that I can use to up my pizza game?
Best answer: Blend in some sage and use (pre-cooked) butternut squash as a topping (maybe also some thin potato slices).
Blend in basil + parsley + garlic, then top with pre-roasted, super garlic-y zucchini slices.
Breakfast pizza - I'd do sauteed spinach, veggie sausage, and fresh tomato slices. Make your bechamel smokey (add a little smoked paprika).
posted by snaw at 8:44 AM on May 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Blend in basil + parsley + garlic, then top with pre-roasted, super garlic-y zucchini slices.
Breakfast pizza - I'd do sauteed spinach, veggie sausage, and fresh tomato slices. Make your bechamel smokey (add a little smoked paprika).
posted by snaw at 8:44 AM on May 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Best answer: A little dill in the bechamel is fantastic with any kind of fish, I bet it'd be amazing with anchovies, or to make a less traditional choice, teeny shrimps. Shrimp and asparagus bechamel pizza?
If you did bechamel with roasted garlic blended into it you would have some magical flavor paste that would pair beautifully with a roasted vegetable pizza, like roasted eggplant and peppers done first (same time as the garlic) and cooked a second fast time on the pizza. (Let's be honest, roasted garlic bechamel would go with pretty much anything.)
The way I was first introduced to bechamel was as a mushroom sauce my grandma would do for a fancy dinner thing, I think it was roasted mushrooms and shallot and maybe some mustard stirred into a bechamel that had been thinned with a little stock that was appropriate to the main protein. I've done this a few times and have tweaked it every time but it's always tasty. I bet a mushroom bechamel sauce would be a great base to an olive pizza, or a chicken pizza, or you could intensify the mushroom experience and do different kinds of mushrooms on top of the sauce. I think parmesan is the cheese to do with mushrooms.
posted by Mizu at 8:49 AM on May 9, 2018
If you did bechamel with roasted garlic blended into it you would have some magical flavor paste that would pair beautifully with a roasted vegetable pizza, like roasted eggplant and peppers done first (same time as the garlic) and cooked a second fast time on the pizza. (Let's be honest, roasted garlic bechamel would go with pretty much anything.)
The way I was first introduced to bechamel was as a mushroom sauce my grandma would do for a fancy dinner thing, I think it was roasted mushrooms and shallot and maybe some mustard stirred into a bechamel that had been thinned with a little stock that was appropriate to the main protein. I've done this a few times and have tweaked it every time but it's always tasty. I bet a mushroom bechamel sauce would be a great base to an olive pizza, or a chicken pizza, or you could intensify the mushroom experience and do different kinds of mushrooms on top of the sauce. I think parmesan is the cheese to do with mushrooms.
posted by Mizu at 8:49 AM on May 9, 2018
oh yes sage + cream + butternut squash is amazing. Some nutmeg in there is always a plus too.
Consider lemon zest (not juice) as a flavoring for the bechamel. Deep-roasted veg, like squash or cauliflower, on top.
posted by fingersandtoes at 10:02 AM on May 9, 2018
Consider lemon zest (not juice) as a flavoring for the bechamel. Deep-roasted veg, like squash or cauliflower, on top.
posted by fingersandtoes at 10:02 AM on May 9, 2018
I would do a spinach and artichoke combo.
posted by Neely O'Hara at 4:59 PM on May 9, 2018
posted by Neely O'Hara at 4:59 PM on May 9, 2018
Best answer: Asparagus, prosciutto and mushroom.
posted by the duck by the oboe at 7:41 PM on May 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by the duck by the oboe at 7:41 PM on May 9, 2018 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: I just dug up two packs of frozen marjoram and tarragon. How to use?
posted by tedious at 2:10 AM on May 10, 2018
posted by tedious at 2:10 AM on May 10, 2018
Best answer: You could do a béarnaise sauce and put it on a pizza with thin slices of beef and mushrooms.
posted by the duck by the oboe at 1:40 AM on May 11, 2018
posted by the duck by the oboe at 1:40 AM on May 11, 2018
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posted by fingersandtoes at 8:25 AM on May 9, 2018