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11 Best Sauces To Dip Your Pizza In 

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Pizza is a classic combination of three essential ingredients: a bready, chewy crust, gooey, fatty cheese, and decadent toppings like meats, vegetables, mushrooms, and fruits. This succulent combination often begs for a delicious dipping sauce to provide relief to this heavy handheld meal. Dipping sauces taste great on pizza, no matter how you eat it. Some people reserve dipping sauce only for the crust. Other pizza lovers prefer to dip on every bite, dragging their pizza toppings through their choice of tangy, sweet, spicy, or creamy sauce. Because there is a nearly endless variety of pizzas, many different dipping sauces make some of the best sauces to dip pizza in. Read on to learn about the top 11 sauces to dip pizza in.


Barbecue Sauce

Barbecue Sauce
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Sweet, tangy, and even sometimes spicy barbecue sauce provides a zesty counterpart to the rich flavors of pizza. The zip of barbecue sauce cuts through the bready crust, fatty cheese, and heavy toppings. Dip a white-sauce pizza like a chicken alfredo pizza in barbecue sauce for a delicious flavor counterpart, or create a BBQ chicken pizza by drizzling it right on top.


Honey

Honey
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Artisanal pizzas taste great when dipped in honey. Consider a side of honey the next time you are eating a fig and goat cheese pizza or arugula and prosciutto pizza. The trendy condiment hot honey lends a spicy and sweet note to rich pizzas like a five-cheese pie.


Marinara Sauce

Marinara Sauce
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It’s no secret marinara sauce makes one of the best sauces to dip pizza in. In fact, this is such a good idea most pizza delivery restaurants sell a side of breadsticks – which is basically just dipping pizza crust in pizza or marinara sauce! If it’s up to me, I dip every crust in a side of marinara sauce. You can ask your favorite pizza place for a side, or check out our favorite jarred marinaras to keep at home.


Ranch Dressing

Ranch Dressing
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Midwesterners, this one is for you! Ranch dressing is a ubiquitous condiment to dip pizza into in some parts of the United States. This creamy and thick dressing clings to the pizza and provides a cooling complement to spicy taco pizza. Check out our favorite grocery store ranch dressings and try it yourself.


Hot Sauces

Hot Sauces
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Hot sauce remains one of the most popular condiments worldwide. Hot sauce aficionados have their favorites, but even some of the famous brands taste great on pizza. Take your breakfast pizza to a new level when you dip it in hot sauce. Or add extra spice to a chicken bacon ranch pizza with hot sauce. If you’re brave, check out the hottest hot sauces to try!

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Blue Cheese Dressing

Blue Cheese Dressing
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If you like a little funk with your creamy dressing, upgrade from ranch dressing to blue cheese. This dressing, made from a strong, funky cheese, adds a thick, creamy, and salty sauce to dip pizza in. If you ordered a spicy buffalo chicken pizza, blue cheese dressing is one of the best sauces to dip pizza in.


Garlic Butter

Garlic Butter
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Most pizzas feature a foundational flavor of garlic throughout their recipe. Pump up that irresistible garlic flavor by dipping your pizza in garlic butter. Easily make garlic butter at home for a decadent dipping sauce for any variety of meat, cheese, and seafood pizzas.


Sriracha 

Sriracha 
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Sriracha, a trendy chile sauce, remains one of the most popular condiments for food today. Pizza does not escape the influence of sriracha, with many delicious pizzas benefiting from this spicy and smoky condiment. Top vegetarian pizzas with sriracha to boost the complex flavors of a plant-based recipe. Beware – a little sriracha goes a long way!


Mayonnaise

Mayonnaise
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While not a popular dipping condiment in the United States as in other nations, mayonnaise tastes delicious when paired with certain pizzas. The BLT pizza features a mayo-based pizza sauce, making mayonnaise a natural choice for one of the best sauces to dip pizza in. While this isn’t my first choice, to each his own.


Pesto Sauce

Pesto Sauce
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Pesto sauce packs a flavorful punch that can boost the taste of a one-dimensional slice of pizza. Consider topping a slice of cheese pizza with a side of pesto sauce for dipping. Margherita pizzas commonly feature basil, which makes the basil-heavy pesto sauce a great pairing.


Tomato Ketchup

Tomato Ketchup
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Ketchup is a classic condiment for many American comfort foods. Even pizza can be one of the best sauces to dip pizza in. Bacon cheeseburger pizzas feature many of the flavors of a cheeseburger, making it a classic pairing for a ketchup dipping sauce. Ketchup is also often popular among children, so this one might help the kids eat if they’re feeling stubborn at dinner time.

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Written by Brian Nagele

Brian attended West Virginia University, then started his career in the IT industry before following his passion for marketing and hospitality. He has over 20 years experience in the restaurant and bar industry.

As a former restaurant owner, he knows about running a food business and loves to eat and enjoy cocktails on a regular basis. He constantly travels to new cities tasting and reviewing the most popular spots.

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