Do you really need tomatoes to make pizza?

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mountaindewslave said:

StokedUp said:
You need tomatoes, that's the ingredients that makes pizza, pizza. I completely agree that pic looks delicious but it's just a glorified cheese on toast. The fact is pizza is bread tomatoe and cheese, then with your own toppings.

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the reality is that 99% of pizzas have cheese and tomato sauce on them. obviously there are going to be exceptions for anything but in general a pizza is thought of as a food that does in fact have tomato

posting a picture of essentially a sort of cheese bread that looks appetizing does not change the general consensus of what pizza is and always has been

Pizza was created centuries before tomatoes reached Europe, so it has always been made without them.

While the pic from the OP does look like a big piece of bread or toast and would probably benefit from tomatoe sauce, a pizza without tomatoes can be done in a much better way. I advice everyone to try out a pizza according to the recipe I gave earlier. The ingredients complement each other so well there, the sweetness of pancetta and aceto balsamico is truely a treat for the palate. When I ate it first I didn't even notice there was no tomatoe sauce on it, my girlfriend told me afterwards that she was shocked a pizza without them can taste so good and I was like "whaaat? There were no tomatoes?". Everything goes together so well there, that I didn't even notice