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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.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice. I am always constantly increasing the pizzerias in Italy and around the world that have introduced in their menu this delicious Sicilian specialties.

Arancini are often served as an aperitif, waiting for the arrival pizza, or as a real dish.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Today we will prepare this delicious Sicilian specialties in a simple and rapid.

We begin by clarifying once and for all that are arancini “male” although in Sicily all the call to “female”….arancine.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Ingredients for 12 arancini:

For rice

500 grammi riso (Vialone Nano)

1 onion

100 grams of butter

1/2 glass of white wine

vegetable broth

saffron

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pepe

 

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

For the filling

200 grams of meat sauce

 

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

For breading:

2 album

bread crumbs
For frying:

Sunflower oil

 

Not remember how to prepare the meat sauce? No problem, here is a simple guide:

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Prepare the sauce with celery, carrots and onions in a little oil, let it brown and then add the ground meat.

Add the peas and tomato sauce and cook on low heat and season with salt and pepper.

The preparation of the rice:

Prepare the vegetable broth put in a pot with water celery, carrots and onion.

In a pan with 50 grams of butter, we're going to toast the rice, when it's perfectly toasted and color abrato, add white wine.

Gradually add the vegetable stock, When lacking 2 minutes cooking, Dissolve the saffron in a glass with broth and add to rice.

When cooked, the rice in a bowl and let it cool.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Arrange all the ingredients on the table. With one hand, grab a handful of rice, paid the center a spoonful of sauce and cover with more rice sauce giving it the classic round shape of arancini.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice
How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

Past arancini in the album, followed in breadcrumbs.

Fry in hot oil.

How To Make The Arancini Siciliani Rice

If you want to learn more about Arancini have a look at wikipedia.

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Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon

Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon. The pizza is the undisputed symbol of our culinary tradition. To all of you will ever definitely turning between the various regions of Italy to taste the many and different cakes that are produced in different places, the Apulian, the Tuscan, the cacciannanze, the white one, cakes with different fillings ranging from tuna to pickles, the artichokes, stuffed with various meats or with green and black olives, Nutella or even fried.

Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.
Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.

The cake has a long tradition and do not forget that "it is a simple dish". Today we are going to prepare a very simple recipe, but that will charm you with its softness and the combination of ingredients that compose it strictly "poor": Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.

My grandparents told me often that the war in the middle of "poverty" when it was possible prepared together with homemade bread every week even this simple focaccia adding some potatoes blanched and some cubes of bacon jealously guarded in the pantry.

Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.
Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.

Preparation of Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon

Prepare the dough for homemade pizza. If you are not a pizza expert and you are looking for how to properly prepare the dough, I invite you to click this link to our previous post "dough for homemade pizza" which is clearly explained step by step how to prepare a perfect dough.

Once the preparation of the dough, proceed to cut it into balls 250 grams, place them in a container with a lid and let rise for about two hours until it will be doubled of its volume.

Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.
Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.

Preparation of Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon

The drafting of pizzas: On this topic we have been given much space in our website, It will be of help to all beginners click this link for more information, and watch videos of the writing of our pizzas school pizza.

Blanch the potatoes a few minutes in boiling salted water and cut your pleasure cubed or sliced. Instead I would suggest as regards the bacon a more careful selection. Okay "poor pizza", but not tasteless. Do not use common bacons easily obtained commercially diced, but direct your choice towards a seasoned bacon not too thin, asking your trusted butcher to cut it into slices about one centimeter thick which later cut into small cubes.

Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.
Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.

 

Roll out the balls of dough to form discs of dough by the diameter of 30 cm, add the potatoes, bacon, extra virgin olive oil, salt and fresh rosemary.

Bake in your oven preheated to a temperature of 250/300 degrees for 10 minutes, until the edge of the pizzas will prove to be perfectly golden.

It 'delicious food hot, but let a few pieces for the next day, you will be surprised by the quality of this pizza even if eaten cold.

Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.
Focaccia Potatoes and Bacon.

If you want to know more about the bacon, Have a look at wikipedia.

Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza

Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza

Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza. During my travels in Brianza, I could not help but notice how popular is this pizza in this part situated to the north of the peninsula. All the pizzerias offer in their menu. A pizza very easy to do even at home, made with very simple ingredients and tasty, gorgonzola in Brianza is simply called “zola” and so this delicious pizza became “speck e zola”.

Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza
Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza

I must admit that the bacon and gorgonzola associated with the harsh climate and the haze that here is at home, It is really good.

Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza

To buy the ingredients to prepare at home pizza bacon and gorgonzola are speck, gorgonzola sweet, grated Parmesan, tomato and mozzarella.

Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza
Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza

Prepare the pizza dough as mentioned in our previous post: “dough for homemade pizza

Let stand a few hours for rising, if you want to learn more about the art of levitation, you can go into that reading our article explaining clearly step by step stages of leavening, by clicking this link.

Once the rising phase, the balls roll out of the pizza to form discs of dough by the diameter of 30 centimeters. For those less experienced, I should mention that in our website we have devoted considerable space to the drawing up of balls of pizza, you will find all the information related to video by clicking this link.

Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza

After lying on the balls of pizza, add a thin layer of tomato pizza, mozzarella, good sweet gorgonzola cheese and a generous sprinkling of grated Parmesan cheese.

Bake your pizza in an oven pre-heated to a temperature of 250/300 degrees for a few minutes, until the edge of the pizzas will prove to be golden at the right point.

Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza
Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza

As we have already explained at length in our previous post dedicated to cooking, You can not dictate a precise time for cooking, since each type of furnace responds in a different way, cooking the pizza with times varying.

Bacon and Gorgonzola pizza

A tip that is good for all kinds of oven is to not open the oven door NEVER during cooking of pizzas. you end up with great regret eating a product with elastic and rubbery. If you can not help but open the oven door to check for doneness, do it only after 8/10 minutes.

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For more information about the blue cheese and bacon, I invite you to visit these links:

wikipedia speck

wikipedia gorgonzola.

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How to Properly Use the Oven

How to Properly Use the Oven

Our kitchens for several years were filled with accessories and appliances, many are worthless, like the food processor that we have been given away, or equipment purchased in some teleshopping. One tool that is mostly used together with stoves that for obvious reasons we use everyday, It is definitely the oven in our kitchen.

For this reason I decided to explain in this article how to best use correctly “the oven” to obtain a perfect cooking of any food.

How to Properly Use the Oven

Know your oven! As already mentioned earlier in one of my posts, “Each furnace is different from others”, so it would not sound trite to repeat that in the first ever to do is read the instruction manual of your oven.

Main types of oven:

How to Properly Use the Oven
How to Properly Use the Oven

The oven:

By means of the resistors which transform the electricity into heat which are usually positioned on the top and bottom of the oven, the electric oven can be of two types: static or ventilated.

Oven to Gas:

Until a few years ago it was definitely the best selling model, now slowly it is replaced by the electric. It has many advantages, the gas is cheaper than electric, It is much more simple to use, just turn on the burner with a match and…done, unlike that electrical it reaches the set temperature very quickly,. Among the negative aspects of this type of oven, there is the fact that has a tendency to bake more and less in the lower part of the upper one of the foods that bake.

How to Properly Use the Oven
How to Properly Use the Oven

The microwave:

More than for cooking, This type of oven you use it to warm or thaw food quickly. In this type of oven you remember that you should not include certain foods: Whole eggs in their shells, foods that contain large quantities of oil, drinks with high alcoholic content, metals or metal alloys, wood or glass.

The wood oven:

How to Properly Use the Oven
How to Properly Use the Oven

The oldest and most traditional ovens, perfect to cook our pizza or bread, but also very suitable for the preparation of meat, vegetables, fish and sweets. It should be turned on at least a couple of hours before using, always leave the door open during use, without oxygen the flame is extinguished immediately compromising cooking the same food. The wood stove should be cleaned from the ashes and embers, It reaches very high temperatures. The maximum temperature can bake pizzas and focaccia, meat, fish and vegetables at an average temperature and when the temperature starts to drop, We can bake bread and cakes.

How to Properly Use the Oven

The ovens of the new generation electrical have already pre-set different cooking modes, confectionery, pizza, fish, meat. Often they are ventilated. What does it mean?

Static

The static oven is particularly suitable for baking leavened products, then this is precisely the most suitable type of oven to bake a pizza or our favorite dessert. The classic gas oven is considered static.

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The convection oven cooks faster our foods, It has an internal fan that distributes the heat evenly. Beware, This is not always an advantage, in fact, it is not suitable for leavened products.

Tips that apply to all types of furnace:

The oven should always be pre-heated before introducing the food to be cooked.

Never open the oven while cooking, this could compromise the rise, if it is really necessary to open it, do it only in the last few minutes of cooking.

After cooking food, Always clean your oven to avoid leaving smells of what you have been previously cooked.

To learn more about the wood oven, click this link that will lead you to the Wikipedia page dedicated to this oven.

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pizza ham and melon recipe

Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe

Pizza ham and melon comes from one of the starters Italians now famous all over the world. A perfect match gave the ham and a good ripe melon slices is unmatched!!

Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe
Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe

Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe

Pizza ham and melon, actually it has many variations more or less good according to taste. The most popular seems to be the simple focaccia with oil, salt and rosemary served with slices of melon and prosciutto. Even the version that includes the addition of the rocket is in high demand. Finally, with many more calories holding forth the classic margherita with the addition of ham and a few thin slice of melon.

Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe
Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe

Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe

Today in our recipe we prepare the most classic of this pizza: pizza "focaccia" with prosciutto slices added cooked along with melon slices or cubes.

Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe
Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe

Preparation of pizza with ham and melon:

Prepare the dough classic pizza as described in our previous post: Pizza dough.

Leavening: Let the dough rest for rising.

After the rising phase roll out the balls well-leavened dough to form the disks of dough the diameter of about 30 cm.

Dress your discs of pasta with extra virgin olive oil, a pinch of salt and rosemary and bake in your oven preheated to 250/300 degrees for a few minutes, until the edge will prove to be perfectly golden. Once baked pizzas, add the ham sliced ​​and diced melon.

Combine the bread with ham and melon in a good white wine.

Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe
Pizza Prosciutto and Melon Recipe

The parma ham on wikipedia

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Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe

Pizza hot dogs and chips delicious recipe. It may seem strange, but the pizza with sausage and chips is without any doubt one of the most popular pizzas in the pizza parlors around the world.

Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe
Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe

At first sight, the ingredients that make this pizza seem to belong to the cultures of other countries, but their popularity is also used in the preparation of other dishes, makes this pizza a pizza most appreciated.

Economical and easy to prepare pizza with sausage and chips is particularly welcome by both children and adults and is ideal to serve pizza for the buffet and birthdays.

Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe
Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe

Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe

The preparation:

Fast to prepare, this recipe is really for everyone, both for beginners as well as pizza makers hands alike. The first thing to do is to fry the chips in extra virgin olive oil being careful not to completely finish cooking but to leave them just golden, their cooking will be finished in the oven when added over the pizza, residual oil drain well and add salt to your taste.

We prepare the dough for our pizza, for beginners suggest you follow the advice set out in our previous post: how to make pizza at home.

Once the mixing phase, let stand the balls until they are at least doubled in volume. For any questions on the rise, you can read our post dedicated to the rise.

After the rising phase, roll out your pizza up to a diameter of about 30 cm as shown accurately in this post with pictures and video.

Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe
Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe

Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe

Seasoning:

After having laid the disks of dough, add the tomato and a generous layer of mozzarella. Arrange on the surface of the sausage pizza cut into slices and chips previously.

Bring your oven at a temperature of 300 about degrees and bake your pizzas for about 10 minutes, until the edge will prove to be perfectly golden.

Remove from the oven, add a few leaves of fresh basil and a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

Match: The best drink to combine with all our pizzas is definitely the wine as it has the same pH of our stomach, so in addition to the pleasure of drinking a good product, we will have a fast digestion.

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Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe
Frankfurters and Chips Delicious Pizza Recipe

 

Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe

Pizza Switzerland, The perfect recipe!! Certainly interesting is this statistic that represents the interest PIZZA between the various countries of the world. Below are the top ten: The source is provided by reliable data from Analytics from our site that deals exclusively with pizza.

Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe
Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe

Obviously Italy ranks first with the 43,73%. Incredible interest in the pizza with Brazil 11,38% second place.

Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe
Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe

Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe

The Swiss even if with a percentage of 2% Figure ninth in this world ranking. Much of the credit goes to the many Italians living in Switzerland and to its proximity to Italy. Among the many things that have made famous this small country in the world, cheeses occupy a position of some importance.

Today's recipe is Switzerland, it is a pizza with a delicious combination of 4 the most famous Swiss cheese: Emmenthal, Gruviera, Gotthard and Sbrinz.

Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe
Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe

You can make this recipe with any other type of Swiss cheese, now readily available at any supremercato.

The recipe is part of pizzas "white" without tomatoes, palatable, yet light, to which we are going to add the tomatoes into wedges.

Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe

Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe
Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe

Prepare the dough for pizza.

Let rise until doubled in volume.

The drafting of the balls.

After lying your pizzas with a diameter of about 30 cm, Add the mozzarella and mix of Swiss cheese that you have prepared. Now add the tomatoes into wedges.

Bake your pizzas in an oven pre-heated to a temperature of about 250/300 degrees. They will be ready in about 15 minutes, until the edge of your pizzas turn out to be perfectly golden. Before serving at the table, add a few leaves of fresh basil and a sprinkling of pepper.

Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe
Switzerland Perfect Pizza Recipe

If you want to know more about Swiss cheeses, consultation wikipedia.

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Peppers and Chicken Pizza Delicious

Today I propose a pizza that we can easily classify in the category of "light", The pepperoni pizza and chicken, delicious pizza, He loved both by adults and children, pizza for those who are always on a diet. In fact this pizza has a low calorie content thanks to the white meat of chicken which as is known are low in fat and the lightness of the peppers.

Peppers and Chicken Pizza Delicious
Peppers and Chicken Pizza Delicious

This pizza has a base topped with tomato, chicken and peppers cut into strips previously tantalizingly. At this pizza is not added mozzarella not excessively increase the intake of calories, but only the parmesan shavings on the surface of the pizza once baked.

We begin browning the chicken with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, add the peppers into strips, some odor, aggiustiamo di sale, Once ready let him cool.

Peppers and Chicken Pizza Delicious
Peppers and Chicken Pizza Delicious

We prepare the dough to make pizza.

Let dough rise

We prepare the pizzas.

Roll out the balls of your leavened dough until the dough disks with a diameter of about 30 cm, Add the tomatoes with a spoon, chicken and peppers that you prepared earlier and our pizzas are ready to fire.

Preheat your oven at home to the maximum temperature (220/250 degrees), When it is hot, bake your pizzas for about fifteen minutes or until the board it will prove to be perfectly golden.

Indescribable pleasure that you can try, combining this delicious pizza with an excellent white wine "Passerina"Territories Offidani.

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Pizza recipe Tropea onions and Nduja

Pizza recipe red onions and nduja. As you can easily guess from the name, this pizza is clear origins Calabresi. Nduja and red onion, They are in fact 2 among the products that best represent this wonderful land in the extreme south of the peninsula.

The red onion have now become famous all over the world, They are among the main features that you do not leave to those who consumed the annoying “breath of onion”. For Nduja instead it is worth spending a few more words:

pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja
pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja

E’ a sausage of soft texture taste particularly spicy.

His name nduja or prefer duja originates from Latin “introduction”. E’ a simple dish, born to utilize the production waste of the processing of meat of pork: spleen, stomach, intestine, lungs, esophagus, heart, trachea, and other soft parts. To this mix of ingredients is added to the Calabrian hot pepper and stuffed into the blind alley (orba) and it is subsequently smoked.

Nduja wears spalmandola on slices of toasted bread, how to fry sauce, and it is often used as a filling for the realization of pizzas spicy.

pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja
pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja

Preparing pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja:

To prepare the pizza, you can follow the detailed description and the ingredients mentioned in our previous post: Dough for homemade pizza.

If you are not an expert pizza makers and want to read up more on the rising phase, you can consult our post that explains step by step how to get a perfect leavening.

Drawing up of balls of pizza: In help to all those who want to learn to roll out the balls of pizza as a pizza maker professional, We recommend reading this post careful preparation of the balls, where you will find the video to show you how to write correctly your pizzas.

pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja
pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja

pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja

Roll the pellets until obtaining of pizza dough disks of a diameter of about 30 cm. Add the tomato, nduja sliced ​​or spread, the red onion into thin slices and cover with a generous layer of mozzarella.

Bake in your oven previously heated to a temperature of 250/300 degrees for 15 minutes, until the edge will prove to be perfectly golden.

Remove from the oven and serve hot.

pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja
pizza recipe onions of Tropea and nduja

If you want to know more about nduja, you can click this link.

pizza bacon and dried tomatoes

Pizza Pancetta and Dried Tomatoes

Pizza Pancetta and Dried Tomatoes. Tired of the usual pizzas? Today we offer a delicious recipe for lovers of strong flavors and unmistakable, The tasty Pizza Pancetta and Dried Tomatoes.

Pizza Pancetta and Dried Tomatoes

pizza bacon and dried tomatoes
pizza bacon and dried tomatoes

One of the specialties most successful among the derivatives of tomato processing in Italy, is definitely dried tomato. I Tomatoes dried They are obtained by firm, ripe tomatoes (S. Marzano, Ciliegina, Datterino), cut in two in the length, sun-dried after being sprinkled with a little’ salt. Dried or preserved in extra virgin olive oil.

For the preparation of this very simple recipe, in addition to dried tomatoes we will use the bacon, after having cut it into cubes, we're going to cook over medium heat in a skillet.

pizza bacon and dried tomatoes
pizza bacon and dried tomatoes

Pizza Pancetta and Dried Tomatoes

We prepare the dough for pizza as shown in this link.

We let our dough to rest for a few hours for the rising process as described in this link.

The drafting of the balls.

Pizza Pancetta e Pomodori Secchi
pizza bacon and dried tomatoes

Preparation:

Roll out the balls of dough to form the disks of dough of a diameter of 30 centimeters. Add the tomato, a generous layer of mozzarella, dried tomatoes and bacon. Bake in your oven previously heated to a temperature of 200/250 degrees for about 15 minutes, until the edge of your pizzas will prove to be perfectly golden.

Pizza Pancetta e Pomodori Secchi
pizza bacon and dried tomatoes

After baked pizzas, add a few leaves of fresh basil, cut into wedges and serve hot.

You do not know the sun-dried tomatoes? Click on the link to See wikipedia.

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Pizza Pancetta e Pomodori Secchi
pizza bacon and dried tomatoes