A white pizza with no tomato. A clam pie is also white, with clams instead of a cheese blanket

White, charred, no blanket of cheese

New Haven clam pizza

New Haven white clam pizza at home: chopped clams, garlic, oregano, olive oil, and pecorino on a thin dough. Not a mozzarella pie with seafood on it.

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The clam pie is the reason people fly to New Haven. It is not a cheese pizza with a can of clams dropped on it. The photo is a white cheese pie, so you can see a pie with no tomato. Take the cheese blanket off. That is the difference.

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Drain the clams. Clam juice on dough is the same failure as wet mozzarella. Garlic in the oil, not a pile of raw slices that burn. Oregano. Locatelli Pecorino Romano instead of a layer of mozzarella. A few small pieces of cheese are a home compromise. A full layer is a different pizza.

Heat is the other half. Coal ovens on Wooster Street run hotter than a kitchen. A steel that has preheated for an hour is as close as a home oven gets. Stretch it thin. The style notes live with the other regional pies. Classic Cheese Pizza is the red New Haven cousin if you do not have clams.

Common questions

What is New Haven clam pizza?
A thin, charred pie from New Haven, often called apizza. The white clam has no tomato and little or no mozzarella. Chopped clams, garlic, oregano, olive oil, and pecorino. Frank Pepe’s is the pie people mean.
How do you make clam pizza at home?
Stretch New York Pizza Dough thin. Brush with Filippo Berio Extra Virgin Olive Oil and garlic. Add drained chopped clams, oregano, and Locatelli Pecorino Romano. Do not cover it in cheese. Bake on a Baking Steel Original at 290°C (550°F) until the rim spots and the clams are just cooked.

Then bake

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High-gluten, overnight cold ferment. The dough behind a foldable slice.

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Sauce, mozzarella, that’s it. The pie Google still looks for every night.

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