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SILVIO CICCHI:Male Age:54 A restaurant-trained Executive Pizza Chef, he is the author of upcoming book of pizza recepy: “PIZZA e FANTASIA“, you can download it for free registering on this site. He currently resides in Spinetoli (ITALY) with his cats and dogs. Specialized in Business start up – Pizza dove – Pizza courses – Art of pizza.

Focaccia with Tomato and Bacon Baked

Focaccia with Tomato and Bacon Baked. For the preparation of this fragrant focaccia, we must first prepare the baked bacon. A brief refresher for those who had plans to prepare it at home.

Preparation of baked bacon

Prepare a chopped rosemary salt, salvia, garlic and pepper. Meanwhile, seasoned with pepper and salt to the piece of bacon. Let briefly flavor and sprinkle with the chopped previously prepared. Roll the bacon and tie with string. Now brown it in a pan with oil, a clove of garlic and a sprig of rosemary. When it is golden, pour in the wine. Bake at 200 degrees for about one hour. After it baked, allow it to cool, then cut into slices not too thin. Our bacon is ready for use.

Focaccia with Tomato and Bacon Baked
Focaccia with Tomato and Bacon Baked

Focaccia with Tomato and Bacon Baked

The preparation of the cake that will be the basis of our pizza, It is a very important step which should not be overlooked:

Always use a strong flour and let mature the dough 3 degrees centigrade for at least 24 hours. The result is a highly digestible focaccia, fragrant to its exterior and soft inside.

At the end of the maturation, dates to the early rising. As soon as the ball will be well-leavened, lay them hand until forming disk of dough from 30 centimeters.

Focaccia with Tomato and Bacon Baked
Focaccia with Tomato and Pancetta

Focaccia with Tomato and Bacon Baked

The dressing:

Add evenly on the pizza tomatoes cut into wedges and well flavored with oil, salt and oregano. Add the baked bacon cut into strips. Season with extra virgin olive oil, salt and rosemary.

Bake at 300 degrees Celsius for a few minutes, when the board will be perfectly golden, you sfornarla. Add a few leaves of fresh basil and serve while still hot to your guests.

Below the video of the preparation of this pizza during the lessons of ongoing professional pizzaiolo at the laboratories of our school pizza.

Focaccia with Tomato and Bacon Baked

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Pizza with anchovies Tuna Onion and Mozzarella

Pizza with anchovies Tuna Onion and Mozzarella

Pizza with anchovies Tuna Onion and Mozzarella. Great pizza, perfect for those in search of strong flavors. How would an old friend: A pizza for smoking!

I love it, I love the savory breakfast in place of the classic cappuccino and croissant.

For making this pizza we have prepared a few simple ingredients:

Del well preserved tuna in extra virgin olive oil

Of anchovy fillets drained of its oil.

A red onion cut into thin slices.

A mozzarella mozzarella diced.

The classic tomato pizza.

Pizza with anchovies Tuna Onion and Mozzarella
Pizza with anchovies Tuna Onion and Mozzarella

Pizza with anchovies Tuna Onion and Mozzarella

Dough

To prepare the, we used a "strong flour" and left W300 mature in a refrigerator at a temperature of 3 degrees centigrade for 48 hours.

After the maturation phase, we left our dough rise before spread in disks of dough from the diameter of 33 cm.

Pizza with anchovies Tuna Onion and Mozzarella

The dressing:

Helping with a spoon, Spread a light layer of tomato pizza, sprinkle the slices of onion and chopped immediately after the anchovy fillets evenly over the pizza surface. At this point we can do is our crumble the tuna steak and finally the diced mozzarella.

Pizza with anchovies Tuna Onion and Mozzarella
Tuna pizza anchovies onion

Pizza with anchovies Tuna Onion and Mozzarella

Almost grab and bake the pizza oven 300 degrees for a few minutes, until the edge will be perfectly golden.

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Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes and Mozzarella Pancetta

Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes and Mozzarella Pancetta. The cherry tomato is widely used in pizzeria, to prepare delicious pizzas. Since you can find it in all seasons, now you can find it in all menus of pizzerias. in great demand, especially for those who are always on a diet like me, It contains few calories and is very refreshing. There are several varieties: Chipano, Suncherry, Rod, Lilliput, Pepe, Gold Nugget and the famous Pachino. These delicious cherry tomatoes grow their own fruits cluster that can sometimes get to also contain 25 cherry tomatoes. They are round and bright red form. They have a sweet taste, and now you can see them cultivated throughout the Mediterranean end and not missing in the gardens and orchards.

Adults and children love them.

Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes and Mozzarella Pancetta
Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes and Mozzarella Pancetta

Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes and Mozzarella Pancetta

On my pizza I make extensive use, They have a rich flavor.

Today's pizza is just one of them. I found them just picked fresh vegetables at the market and I could not help but buy them.

Preparing pizza:

To offer your guests a good pizza, I advise you to prepare a pizza dough making use of a strong flour. After the mixing phase, formed the balls, deponetele in suitable containers and let ripen in the refrigerator at a temperature of 3 degrees centigrade for 24 the 48 hours minimum. A maturation done to perfection will give you a good pizza, fragrant to its exterior and well honeycombed and soft inside.

After the slow phase of maturation, switch to faster and visible to the naked eye leavening phase.

Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes and Mozzarella Pancetta

Preparation of the ingredients:

Cut the cherry tomatoes Cherry into four segments, place them in a container and season with extra virgin olive oil, salt and oregano. Cut the bacon into strips and cut the mozzarella.

Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes and Mozzarella Pancetta
Pizza with Tomato Bacon and Mozzarella

Pizza with Cherry Tomatoes and Mozzarella Pancetta

Season the pizza:

Roll out the pizza, add the tomato evenly over the surface with a spoon helping, distributed the bacon and tomatoes and finally the mozzarella.

Bake at 300 degrees in the oven for pizza. In a few minutes the edge is golden to perfection, then baked and served piping hot to your guests.

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Pizza with mushrooms and peppers

Pizza with mushrooms and peppers. I Champignon mushrooms and the peppers are of the available ingredients all year. refreshing, pleasant, like almost all, even if this pizza is not one of the pizzas that you will find in all menus, you can always request it to the waiter when ordering.

Working with peppers and button mushrooms is easy, you can put them on your raw pizza before baking. The result is always nice to see, when you can always buy fresh peppers, colored and freshly harvested fresh mushrooms.

Pizza with mushrooms and peppers
Pizza with mushrooms and peppers

Pizza with mushrooms and peppers

We prepare together quickly this pizza. After carefully removing the stem of fungi which usually has still attached loam, clean them thoroughly with a cloth and cut into thin slices. Wash peppers, cut into aquifers and liberateli completely from the seeds inside, finished the cleaning phase cut into thin slices. Prepare the diced mozzarella and our ingredients for the preparation of our pizza is ready.

Pizza with mushrooms and peppers
Pizza mushrooms and peppers

Pizza with mushrooms and peppers

Preparation of the dough for pizza.

I never tire of repeating that to get a good pizza that is fragrant on the outside and soft and well honeycombed inside, You must use a strong flour and leave mature in a refrigerator at a temperature of 3 degrees Celsius for a minimum of 24-48 hours.

Once the ripening phase of the dough, pull it out of the refrigerator so it starts fast leavening process. When your dough is leavened can start the drafting of dough. If you are among those who use a rolling pin to roll out the pizza, I suggest reading our previous post entirely devoted to hand-writing, can be found here.

Pizza with mushrooms and peppers

Seasoning pizza.

Spread over the pizza surface a thin layer of tomato. Add the mushrooms and peppers, Finally add the mozzarella at your leisure.

Bake in oven for pizza 300 degrees for three or four minutes, You understand when it is ready when the edge has reached a perfect golden brown.

Remove from the oven, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and the leaves fresh basil inevitable that, as well as giving an aesthetic touch, They give you a pleasant scent to your pizza.

Serve piping hot to your guests.

Below the video of the preparation of this fragrant pizza a unique taste

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Focaccia dough with flour of chickpeas

Focaccia dough with flour of chickpeas

Article updated in September 2022

Focaccia with Dough of Chickpea flour. The chickpea flour is obtained by grinding the dried seeds of "Cicer arietinum”. Widely consumed in our peninsula in Liguria and Piedmont with a typical local specialty called "Farinata”. It is a kind of flatbread obtained by mixing salt water with a trickle of olive oil. It is prepared in almost every pizzeria or restaurant business, and baked in a wood oven.

In the kitchen is used for many recipes: We have all tasted the famous one at least once cream of chickpeas with prawns, the panizza Ligure covered with onions, or in the ethnic food Falafel, l'or humus.

Very suitable for celiacs because it contains no gluten.

Rich in vitamins and minerals is also used to produce special breads.

Focaccia dough with flour of chickpeas
Focaccia dough with flour of chickpeas

Focaccia dough with flour of chickpeas

Hence my idea of ​​preparing a fantastic flour with this flour cake.

The chickpea flour has a high content of protein, so you have to use it mixed with the flour usually used for pizza in quantities 80% flour 20% chickpea flour.

To get a good focaccia we have to prepare our pizza dough in advance, at least 24 hours, but I assure you 48 hours maturation in refrigerator 3 degrees makes it perfect and we will return a fragrant focaccia to its exterior and soft and well honeycombed inside.

Focaccia dough with flour of chickpeas
Focaccia dough with flour of chickpeas

The chickpea flour in the pizzeria

The preparation of this cake not require special knowledge, It fits all, even for those who decide to prepare this pizza at home the first time.

After preparing the dough and left to mature the right time, pull it out of the fridge and let it rise in a warm, moist environment.

When it perfectly leavened, roll it out manually, avoid the rolling pin which would make all the air bubbles escape (gluten network) that they have been formed during the leavening.

Roll out the balls to form disk of dough from 30 centimeters, seasoned as is usually done with a common focaccia, that is, with extra virgin olive oil, a pinch of salt and the inevitable rosemary.

Bake in oven for pizza 300 Celsius degrees to 3 the 4 minutes and the oven as soon as he reached the perfect golden brown.

Taste it very hot.

Focaccia dough with flour of chickpeas

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Focaccia With Onions Borettane

Focaccia With Onions Borettane

Focaccia With Onions Borettane. It's holiday time, the awaited vacation expectations twelve months. This year, along with some close friends I decided to do a drive by moving to the north Italy, to fresh research because I come from the heat became very oppressive. When it was lunch time we stopped to eat in a small town of just over five thousand inhabitants, the name was not new, but I could not remember why: Boretto. Said so maybe does not mean anything, but if I say "to the Onions Borettana" all, or nearly all, They understand what we're talking.

We have all had at least once in life to eat these delicious onions, They are smaller than classic onion, but full of taste. looking crushed, are cooked in sweet and sour and preserved in vinegar or olive oil. They have like the classic onion detoxifying and diuretic, perfect to fight influences, cough and cold.

They keep very well in the cellar, distant from fruit, just put them in a box covered by sheets of newspaper and stored copies a year.

Excellent as a side dish, tasty when combined with roasted and grilled.

On pizza, or as in our case the oven on a flat bread is absolutely delicious.

Focaccia With Onions Borettane

At the end of the holiday, return in our workshops School Pizza, We immediately packed our focaccia with onions Borettane.

Focaccia With Onions Borettane
Focaccia With Onions Borettane

Dough:

Those who follow often our "pizza blog" knows that always prepare our bodies with strong flour We always leave mature in the refrigerator for 24/48 hours minimum.

After the maturation phase we report the mixture to room temperature and let him rise to perfection.

Drawing up:

Always Roll out the dough with your hands, avoided the use of the rolling pin.

Add abundantly borettane onions evenly over the surface of the cake and topped with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, a pinch of salt and rosemary.

It is known that the simple things are always the most good, and this is definitely the best way to fully enjoy the Borettane onions.

Focaccia With Onions Borettane
Focaccia With Onions Borettane

Focaccia With Onions Borettane

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Focaccia With Onions Borettane

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Focaccia with Ricotta and Tomato Pesto

Focaccia with Ricotta and Tomato Pesto. This week came to visit us in our School pizzaioli il Sig. Charles to attend one of our professional courses of Pizzaiolo. Charles already holds a pizzeria in Budapest and is about to open a new one in the East, and knows very well the pizza, so during this week we had plenty of time to indulge in the preparation of different doughs, using different flours, various cereals and many other things.

We have prepared for the realization of this delicious pizza dough with flour chestnuts.

Chestnut flour has a high protein level, so we proceeded to mix it with a strong flour. The result as you can see from the video that follows below was exceptional. To highlight all the properties of chestnut flour we decided to prepare a cake with this type of dough. Exceptional, is a pity that can not be transmitted via web scents of our focaccia dough with chestnuts.

We chose the ingredients "light" by not too strong taste that would have covered the delicious aromas of our focaccia.

Focaccia with Ricotta and Tomato Pesto
Focaccia with Ricotta and Tomato Pesto

Focaccia with Ricotta and Tomato Pesto

The ingredients:

The ingredients for our focaccia are:

A fresh ricotta, succulent cherry tomatoes, and fresh pesto Genovese, freshly prepared.

Dough:

Those who regularly follow our "pizza blog" knows that to get a good pizza that is fragrant on the outside and soft and well honeycombed inside, the dough needs a long maturation in refrigerator 2/3 degrees for at least 24 hours, but even better if 48 hours. Always prepare your dough using strong flour suitable for long rising.

Focaccia with Ricotta and Tomato Pesto
Focaccia dough with chestnuts

Focaccia with Ricotta and Tomato Pesto

Preparation

When the dough will be perfectly leavened, roll out your pizza and do it with your hands, not with a rolling pin. If you are not experienced, check out our previous article that explains step by step how to be done manually writing, you'll find it who.

 After the stretched dough to form discs with a diameter of 33 cm, pass the sauce.

Spread evenly over the surface of the curd, add the cherry tomatoes cut into wedges and well seasoned.

At this point we can fire it in the pizza oven 300 degrees centigrade for 3 the 4 minutes until the edge of the cake will have reached the perfect golden brown.

Remove from the oven, add the tasty pesto, two leaves of fresh basil and serve hot to your guests.

Focaccia with Ricotta and Tomato Pesto

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Maturation of pizza dough

Maturation of pizza dough. It may seem strange, but this phase is still poorly understood by Pizzaioli insiders and who usually prepares the pizza at home. This is the process that makes our crispy pizzas and digestible, than the classic traditional operating mode with short leavening as they did many years ago with bad results in terms of quality.

How many times have you said: I ate a pizza, I now feel bloated, I'm thirsty and I can not digest. A good pizza should not be so, a good pizza should be prepared in the development and production of the dough.

A good mix is ​​the perfect base to get a good pizza.

A good mixture is obtained by leaving him alone to mature for the right time.

Maturation of pizza dough
Maturation of pizza dough

Maturation of pizza dough

The Maillard reaction

He says that in all the mixes for bakery and among which is also our pizza, greater is the waiting time before cooking and the greater will be the presence of amino acids and glucose to the inside. Amino acids are the smallest part of the protein and glucose is the smallest part of the complex sugar or starch.

The massive presence in our pizza dough of amino acids and glucose will mean that the enzymes that break down the complex sugar (Amilasi) and the enzymes that break down the proteins (Protease) They have worked long hours for many.

For a good maturation of the pizza we need 24/36 hours at slow leavening, ideal temperature is 2/3 Celsius degrees.

Maturation of pizza dough

Now for the cooking, and see what he says the reaction of Maillard

It tells us that if our dough is ripe to perfection, that is rich in simple sugars and amino acids, and is put into cooking at high temperatures that we usually use to cook our pizzas, we will obtain a lighter product, more digestible and more fragrant. "Perfect"

Maturation of pizza dough

Results

When we go to a pizzeria and order a pizza prepared with a long maturation dough, our stomach will have no trouble digesting the pizza, a large part of the digestion work has occurred during the ripening in the refrigerator at 2/3 degrees.

Maturation of pizza dough
Maturation of pizza dough

Did you know that during the ripening in the refrigerator are activated over 300 process?

The best known is the rising, which it is also the fastest. Many wonder how to control the rising process? Nothing could be simpler, only through the temperature.

Maintaining the mixture at a temperature of 2/3 Celsius degrees, We will slow down the rising until his full maturity.

After the maturation phase, we can bring our dough at room temperature to start rising. When our dough is leavened we will pass at the right point in the drafting, the seasoning and cooking.

41 Years ago, When I started doing the first pizzas, there were not all these types of flour, neither was available Professional cold rooms like today, then the processing methods were completely different, but today, saw low production costs for the purchase of professional equipment, cold stores have become indispensable to provide a highly digestible product.

Maturation of pizza dough

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Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes

Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes

Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes. In these hot summer nights, there's nothing better than a cake. Just last night, during the individual lessons of our professional pizza maker courses at our school pizza was on duty the dear Rogerio. Rogerio is Brazilian and is about to open a local pizzeria just in Spain in Valencia with your family. As you know, Our professional pizzaiolo courses prepare you to open your own business!

Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes
Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes

Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes

Our buns as you will have seen from previous recipes, They are very simple to prepare, also suitable for anyone who is not an expert in the preparation of the pizza.

They do not have the classic tomato based and mostly have no mozzarella melted over, making it suitable for these evenings since warm weather.

Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes

Preparing the mix

To get a good focaccia, it is fragrant on the outside and soft and well honeycombed inside it is necessary to use a strong flour. A W300 would be recommended.

This type of flour requires a long aging in refrigerator 3 degrees centigrade for at least 24 hours, but also 48 hours are perfect.

Roll out hand the balls of dough, formed of dough disks with a diameter of 30 cm.

Once stretched, practiced pressure with the pads of your fingers along the surface of the pizza to avoid bulges while cooking.

Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes
Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes

Seasoning:

Add the cherry tomatoes evenly cut into wedges, white onion into thin slices and tuna in extra virgin olive oil.

Season with salt and rosemary and bake at 300 degrees for 4 minutes.

Remove from the oven as soon as the edge of our cake will be perfectly golden and serve while still hot.

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Onion Focaccia with tuna and tomatoes

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Focaccia With Mortadella Philadelphia and Ricotta Salata

Focaccia With Mortadella Philadelphia and Ricotta Salata. We have already spoken in the past given by pairing delicious cake with cream cheese Philadelphia, or the delicious focaccia with mortadella. Today with this tasty recipe will try to combine all these delights.

Miss Lois who is attending our ongoing professional pizzaiolo at our school, It decided to prepare this delicious pizza.

The ingredients for the preparation are few and easy to find. Mortadella quality, finely sliced, the delicious cheese Philadelphia and a good grated ricotta.

L’impasto:

For good focaccia used our proven recipe for homemade pizza. I recommend, Always use a strong flour and let it mature at least 24 hours in the refrigerator.

Focaccia With Mortadella Philadelphia and Ricotta Salata
Focaccia With Mortadella Philadelphia and Ricotta Salata

Focaccia With Mortadella Philadelphia and Ricotta Salata

At this point there remains only prepare our tasty focaccia.

Drawing up:

Roll your ball well leavened dough, Hand writing. If you are not an expert to roll out the pizza with your hands, for sure will be useful to our previous post that explains step by step how to draw by hand the pizza in a professional manner.

Focaccia With Mortadella Philadelphia and Ricotta Salata

Here we are, preparation of classic focaccia.

After having stretched the dough add a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, a pinch of salt and some rosemary needles. Bake at 300 degrees centigrade for 3 the 4 minutes, until the perfect browning of the edge.

Focaccia With Mortadella Philadelphia and Ricotta Salata
Focaccia With Mortadella Philadelphia and Ricotta Salata

Focaccia With Mortadella Philadelphia and Ricotta Salata

After baked focaccia pass to the addition of the ingredients.

Spread the cream in Philadelphia over the entire surface of the cake, add the mortadella and finally an abundant layer of ricotta grated.

Two leaves of fresh basil and serve while still hot.

Bon Appetite.

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