Bruno's Brunch Pizza
Author: Pizza Today
Recipe type: Pizza
Ingredients
- Béchamel Sauce
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup milk
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- The Rest
- 1 teaspoon unsalted butter
- 3 large eggs, lightly beaten
- One 12-inch pizza shell
- Four 3-inch-diameter slices Canadian bacon
- ½ pound mild cheddar cheese, shredded (about 1 cup)
Instructions
- Make the béchamel sauce following the steps in the base recipe.
- Set aside.
- In a small non-stick skillet, melt the butter over medium heat until it just starts to foam.
- Stir in the eggs and scramble just until the eggs are set.
- Set aside.
- Spread the béchamel sauce evenly over the pizza shell up to the border (leave about ¼ inch of border).
- Arrange the Canadian bacon slices evenly over the pizza.
- Spread the eggs evenly over the bacon.
- Sprinkle on the cheese.
- Bake.
Bruno's Brunch Pizza
Author: Pizza Today
Recipe type: pizza
Instructions
- Other Ideas
- Use either the béchamel sauce or the Mornay sauce to make a white pizza.
- Spread either sauce over a pizza shell.
- Top the sauce with grilled vegetables and bake.
- Also, fresh spinach that has been sautéed in garlic and olive oil (that would be the prep) work well on a pie featuring béchamel sauce. Make sure that the spinach is not too oily, though.
- Chop the spinach, then sprinkle it over the sauce.
- Finish the pizza off with a shower of grated Parmesan before sending it through the oven.
- Seafood, such as grilled or cooked shrimp, works fine with a béchamel sauce, since one of the offshoots of a béchamel is a sauce Nantua. By thinning out the basic béchamel sauce with clam juice, for example, you have a version of sauce Nantua. This approach gives the sauce and the overall goodness of the pizza a good kick in flavor.
- The flavor profile of the béchamel sauce can be increased by simmering chopped onion in lightly salted water for about 8 minutes.
- Drain.
- Saute the onion in butter.
- Now puree the onion/butter mixture.
- Then incorporate it into the béchamel sauce.
- This is a modified sauce soubise, and would work particularly well with a veggie pizza.
