Pizza: Classification

Pizza - Italian national dish, a round flan covered tomatoes

and the molten cheese (usually mozzarella), which can vpekatsya (depending on the recipe and taste) different fillings (meat, ham, salami, seafood, vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, herbs and others.).

Preparation

Knife for cutting pizza

Unrolling pizza dough

Classical pizza dough is made from flour special (a mixture of flour and flour durum), yeast, sugar, salt and water. The dough was hand kneaded and rolled after proofing thin layer (usually up polusantimetrovoy thickness). The dough is covered tomato sauce. Thereafter, possible to add virtually any fillings. The classic pizza is baked in a special wood-fired oven is very fast at very high temperatures (in normal circumstances - in a preheated 200 пїЅ C oven for about 10 minutes).

Known varieties of pizza

• Pizza aglio e olio - with hot olive oil, lightly fried in garlic and it oregano
• Pizza aglio, olio e pomodoro - olive oil, garlic, oregano and tomatoes
• Pizza alla marinara (marinara) - with tomato, garlic, olive oil and oregano (optional anchovies, capers and black green olives)
• Pizza con le cozze - with mussels, garlic, olive oil and parsley
• Pizza alle vongole - with clams (Bivalves), tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, parsley and oregano
• Pizza Margherita (Margarita) - with tomato, mozzarella cheese (sometimes additionally sprinkled with parmesan cheese), olive oil and basil. Variety Margarita Margherita bianca without tomatoes
• Pizza Neapolitano / Napoli (пїЅNeapolitan") - with tomato, mozzarella, parmesan, anchovies, olive oil, oregano and basil
• Pizza Regina - with tomato, mozzarella, mushrooms, ham, oregano (sometimes even with black olives)

Cooking Pizza Four Cheese

• Pizza capricciosa (Kaprichiozza) - with tomato, mozzarella, mushrooms, artichokes, green and black olives
• Pizza ai quattro formaggi (four cheese) - with four different cheeses
• Pizza quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons) - a common ingredient is tomatoes. Pizza is divided into four parts, each of which is one of the seasons:

• Spring: olives and artichokes
• Summer: salami and black pepper
• Autumn: tomato and mozzarella (as Margaret)
• Winter: mushrooms and boiled eggs

Pizza ai funghi e salsicce (or boscaiola) (Fungi) - with mozzarella, mushrooms, sausages, with or without tomatoes

Pizza Diavola (diabolo) - with pepperoni and other ingredients

Pizza Tonno - with tuna

Pizza frutti di mare - with seafood

Pizza Hawaii (Hawaiian) - with ham and pineapple, presumably American origin

Pizza Calzone

Varies the filling depending on the recipe. Neapolitan pizza is very thin and baked at high temperatures (500 пїЅ C) for two minutes. It can be eaten without using cutlery, previously turning it a libro (пїЅlike a book").

One of the varieties of pizza is calzone (calzone, пїЅenvelope stuffed"), which is folded in half and baked in this form. Traditional fillings are ricotta, ham, mushrooms, mozzarella, parmesan and oregano. Originally baked calzone on fat not in the furnace / oven, and plate in a frying pan.

American pizza with pepperoni, peppers, olives and gribamiTakzhe became popular "American" version of the pizza with a thick layer of dough and generously sprinkle with cheese. B USA this kind of pizza called Chicago style, deep dish or Sicilian. This pizza has become known in Europe, largely due to a network of pizzerias Pizza Hut. "European" version of the pizza with a thin batter is called in America Manhattan style or New York style.

History

Prototypes pizza existed more ancient Greeks and Romans. In connection with imported tomatoes to Europe 1522 in Naples there was the prototype of Italian pizza. In the XVII century. there were special people (пїЅpizzaioliпїЅ, pizzaiolo), Ready for pizza Italian peasants.

Pizza loved wife of King Ferdinand IV of Naples, Maria Carolina Lorena (1752-1814), And later - the Italian King Umberto I and his wife Margherita of Savoy, in whose honor and was named one of the recipes. B USA pizza came late in the second half of the XIX century and first appeared apparently in Chicago. B 1957 there was pizza, semi-finished products.

American branch network Pizza Hut pizza in Moscow

Distribution of pizza in the world

Pizza spread mainly in the US and Europe, where there are developed networks pizzerias, most of which offer free delivery to a specified address.

In Russia, a simplified version of pizza - hot sandwich, where instead of a slice of bread dough is used.

Okonomiyaki with cheese and shrimp

The first part of kosher pizza managed to make the Israeli network of pizzerias "Pizza maestro" for Passover. The Japanese version of pizza ("okonomiyaki") is a fried pastry with seafood and vegetables, well-lubricated with special sauce and sprinkle of dried chips Tuna. When applying this pizza is divided into a flat spatula "Kote".

Pizza is also often referred to in modern culture. (Example: pizza - favorite food Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters of popular comic books and cartoon series).

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