What sauce for a Bratwurst Pizza?

[Attjack]

The wife and I are debating which sauce to use tonight. We want to use leftover hatch chili brats from last night on the pizza. She is adamant that we don't use a tomato-based pizza sauce. The other options we are considering are a white garlic sauce we already have in the fridge from our pickle pizza experiment, a mustard-based sauce like we had with a Cubano pizza we once had, we are also considering no sauce except for a carmelized onion concoction possibly made from black shallots my neighbors offered us. What does The Pit think we should do?

[Steve R.]

My first thought was some kind of mustard-based sauce, and then I saw you had the same idea. I'd go with that.

[MBMorgan]

Mustard-based sounds good. You could also do a half-and-half pizza so you can try a couple of sauces.

[jfmorris]

I can see the brats sliced up doing well on pizza, but don't see why a regular sauce wouldn't work. We often use a garlic/parmesan Alfredo type sauce, or even a ranch based sauce, if we don't want tomato sauce on our pizzas. Not sure I ever thought of mustard sauce on a pizza though! Watching with interest!

[Attjack]

Well, as I mentioned in my OP she is diametrically opposed to red sauce. I'm with you though I don't see why it wouldn't work but at this point, it's not happening!

[smokenoob]

Mustard!

[Spinaker]

Garlic sauce would be my vote. However, anything with garlic in it is a go for me!

I am looking forward to seeing this pizza. That sounds awesome.

[barelfly]

Mustard as you and others say. Could you add mustard to the white sauce, or a small little taste test to see how that changes it?

The other thing you could do, is amp it up a bit with a little red wine vinegar - I say this thinking of the German Potato Salad I make, as it’s a mustard based sauce with caramelized onion, bacon, s/p, and then the red wine vinegar. It’s loose enough to be able to coat the cut up potato but not wet, so should work with the pizza.

are you also looking at sauerkraut on the pizza? Can’t wait to see what you come up with!

[Starsky]

I'd go with a mustard-based sauce, caramelized onions and sauerkraut

[shify]

Was initially thinking that a mustard sauce would work best but given more thought, I'm thinking no sauce and the caramelized onion concoction (maybe with some olive oil drizzled on the dough first) would work great

[Bkhuna]

Hatch green chili brats? How about a mild salsa verde.

[Attjack]

Maybe next time. I buy these hatch chili brats from my butcher frequently.

[Attjack]

I think we have a plan. I'm taking @MBMorgan's advice and doing a half-and-half so we can try 2 variations. I'll make a mustard sauce and that side will have brats and sauerkraut. On the other side, it will be the creamy garlic sauce, brats, and black shallots. The shallots are very interesting. They are soft, almost garlicky on the nose, but sweet with a hint of cherry.

[Skip]

Sounds great! I'd probably go with the mustard based and serve something else on the side. I'm waiting patiently to see this pizza!

[DeusDingo]

cheddar jalapeno

[Richard Chrz]

Vodka sauce

[texastweeter]

Caramelized onion jam