pizza bianca

Sauceless Italian bread

Pizza bianca is Italian flatbread brushed with olive oil and sprinkled with salt, baked without tomato sauce or cheese.

The name means "white pizza," distinguishing it from the red-sauced standard.

Roman bakeries sell it by weight, often split and filled like a sandwich.

In American pizzerias, pizza bianca may include toppings like garlic, rosemary, or ricotta—anything but red sauce.

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sauce presence

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color/appearance

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topping complexity

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Fully topped pizza variety

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Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Rated G