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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.
Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe

Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe

The pizza bresaola with arugula and Parmesan cheese flakes is a pizza light yet rich in flavor. E’ the ideal solution for all those who want to eat a pizza nourishing yet light. We know that the bresaola is among the meats, the one with a lower fat content and can be added to all the pizzas in substitution of other types of meats such as cured ham, salami or other types of sausages. Arugula and some fresh parmesan cheese give this pizza a unique taste. They are many pizza makers who add to this already delicious blend of ingredients the cherry tomatoes that give a touch of freshness to this delicious pizza.

Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe
Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe

Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe

The pizza bresaola with rocket and parmesan can be prepared both on a white base with mozzarella and be on a basis of a daisy.

All the ingredients that make up this pizza topping, namely bresaola cheese parmesan shavings and fresh arugula are strictly added after cooking.

For the preparation of this delicious pizza we will only use the recommended doses in our previous post:

Dough for homemade pizza

The rising pizza

The drafting of the balls of pizza.

Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe
Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe

Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe

After having spread the balls of the pizza to form discs of dough by the diameter of 30 centimeters, add the tomato and a generous layer of mozzarella.

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

Remove from the oven and add the slices of bresaola, the fresh rocket, dressed with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and a pinch of salt, Finally, add the parmesan cheese and serve while still hot.

Pizza perfect to combine with a light white wine.

How do you prepare at home pizza with bresaola? Give your recipe on this page.

If you want to know better bresaola, please click this link on wikipedia.

Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe

Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe
Pizza bresaola Arugula Grana Recipe
Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts

Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts

One of the best sauces that have been handed down by the cousins ​​over the Alps is certainly one prepared with Gorgonzola cheese and walnuts. This perfect combination has created a tasty pizza: Pizza with gorgonzola and walnuts. In this post I will show you how to prepare this easy recipe in your own home. The pizza gorgonzola and walnuts can be prepared on a base with tomato or white.

Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts
Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts

E’ undoubtedly a pizza for strong palates, the ingredients that make this pizza are the gorgonzola flavor bursting and strong, and dry walnuts with their delicacy.

Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts

For all those who have no experience with the preparation of the dough for the pizza to be prepared at home, for doses and ingredients to use, we suggest you read our previous post: dough for homemade pizza.

Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts
Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts

To perfectly perform the step of leavening of the dough, follow the step by step instructions in Our article on the rise.

To learn exactly how to do at home drawing up balls of pizza as an expert pizza maker, see our post previously published showing step by step how to perform at home the drafting of the balls as a professional pizza chef.

Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts
Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts

Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts

The preparation:

Roll out the balls of dough to form the disks of dough the diameter of about 30 cm. If you want to add tomatoes to your pizza, this is the time to do it. Add to your pizza a generous layer of mozzarella, gorgonzola and walnuts previously shelled. A pinch of salt and bake in the oven pre-heated to 250 degrees. Cook for 15 minutes, until the edge will prove to be perfectly golden.

Remove from the oven and add a few leaves of fresh basil.

If you have a recipe with gorgonzola and walnuts do you want to know our readers, you can insert it in the comments section of this page.

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Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts
Perfect Pizza Recipe of Gorgonzola and Walnuts
The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe

The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe

One of the most popular dishes in the world of Italian cuisine is definitely the Bruschetta. Both in its classic version with oil and salt, and in the more elaborate and stuffed with various ingredients, the bruschetta is a dish easy to prepare, fresh and tasty, served as an aperitif / appetizer or as a side dish to accompany our dishes.

The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe
The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe

The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe

In this post, we suggest you the recipe to prepare in your own home this delicious pizza.
Unlike the common bruschetta prepared with slice of bread, this recipe provides a base of a pizza focaccia that, is stuffed with cooked ingredients fresh and simple to turn it into a dish.

The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe
The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe
The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe

In this link you will find described the preparation phase of the dough for pizza.
The step of rising dough.
The drafting of the balls Pizza.
Roll out the balls of dough to form the disks of dough the diameter of about 30 cm.
Season with oil, salt and fresh rosemary and bake in your oven preheated to a temperature of 250 degrees. When the surface turns out to be perfectly golden, baked buns and season with diced tomatoes, diced mozzarella, fresh basil, extra virgin olive oil, salt and a sprinkling of oregano.
If you want to know more about the bruschetta, you can consult by clicking on wikipedia this link.
Your favorite bruschetta? Leave your comment on this page.

The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe
The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe

The Delicious Pizza Bruschetta Recipe

Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe

Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe

For years now the Middle Eastern cuisine, is fully a part of our culinary culture. Hands up who among us has not tasted at least once in a lifetime kebab, this delicious specialty. The Italian pizza makers, They have now decided to adapt this specialty Italian culture by adding the kebab as a sauce for a pizza that was never more apt!!!

Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe
Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe

Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe

The spicy taste of kebab meat combined with yogurt sauce gives life to the recipe that we are going to illustrate today: The pizza kebab with yogurt sauce, a fresh pizza suitable for all seasons.
For those who do not have much experience in the preparation of the dough, the leavening and the establishment of balls, we provide these previous articles which explains step by step how to make the foundation for our pizzas.
Pizza dough homemade
Leavening
The drafting of the balls of pizza

Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe
Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe

Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe

Buy meat kebabs and yoghurt sauce by your nearest dealer.
After having laid the disks of dough, sprinkle the base with yogurt sauce, add the meat kebab, the finely chopped onions and fresh tomatoes sliced. Add salt and pepper and put to cook in your oven preheated to 250 degrees for 15 minutes, until the edge will be perfectly golden. Baked your pizzas and add the chopped salad with thin strips before serving.
If you want to know more about the kebab and its origins, please click this link to wikipedia.
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Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe
Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe

Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe

Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe
Pizza and Kebab Sauce At Yogurt Recipe
Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses

Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses

Oregano “Origanum vulgare” is a herbaceous plant with small oval leaves, whole, opposite. Its flowers are pinkish. E’ a perennial plant that grows in the mountains, In fact, its scientific name is derived from the Greek language, oros which means mountain, and ganos meaning splendor. It grows on the sun, and needs warm to develop all its aroma.

Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses
Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses

Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses

Oregano has enormous medicinal properties that are contained in the flowering tops.
Its unique and distinctive strong flavor and penetrating is given from the essential oil content in its flowers, This essential oil also exerts some beneficial effects:
Aids digestion by stimulating the salivary and gastric secretions, It has tonic for the nervous system, frees the airways in case of cold or cough, read disinfectant properties.

Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses
Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses

Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses in the kitchen

In our kitchens oregano occupies a prominent place, especially in the preparation of Mediterranean dishes and its leaves are commonly used for salads and meats.

Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses
Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses

Oregano and Pizza Properties and Uses

In pizzeria oregano is an ingredient of primary importance. The tomato is prepared and coupled with oregano in all the pizzas “white” no tomato, It is always added a sprinkling of oregano.
for who, come me, He loves to collect the fresh oregano to be dried before use for their pizzas, I recommend raccoglere this plant in dry places and sunny, these plants have more flavor and aroma. Once collected, oregano is dried in the shade and then must be stored in airtight containers.
Oregano on wikipedia

Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon

Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon

One of the most typical recipes of the sea is the recipe pizza scampi and smoked salmon. For those who live in town by the sea, This recipe is not nothing new, the union of the unique taste of smoked salmon together with that of fresh shrimp form a marriage of flavors unique and indistinguishable, by true lovers of fish and shellfish.

Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon
Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon

This pizza is suitable for all those who are perpetually on diet, because it really is a light and tasty pizza. The ideal dish to be eaten in a warm summer evening. Also this recipe is very easy to achieve and does not require much time for preparation.
For those not familiar with dough, Proving and doses, You can see our previous post that will illustrate in detail the preparation of the dough, the leavening of the dough and the drafting of the balls of pizza.
Dough
rising
drawing up

Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon
Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon

Scampi pizza ingredients and smoked salmon for 4 people:

250g of mozzarella;
50g of parsley;
200g smoked salmon;
340g scampi;
oil, salt and pepper q.b.

Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon
Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon

Preparing pizza with scampi and smoked salmon:

This pizza can be made with or without tomato.
After lying on the balls of pizza, add the tomato, mozzarella, scampi well washed and sliced ​​smoked salmon. Season with oil, sale, pepper and chopped parsley.
Bake in oven previously heated to a temperature of 250 degrees for 15 minutes, until the edge of the pizzas will prove to be perfectly golden.
Baked pizzas and serve hot.
The perfect match for this pizza, is to serve it accompanied with a great dry white wine.
He knew the pizza with shrimp and smoked salmon? how to prepare your home? post your recipe in the comments on this page.
If you want to know more about the scampi, you can click this link to wikipedia.

Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon
Pizza recipe Scampi and Smoked Salmon

Pizza recipe Piadina

Piadina Romagna is very appreciated in Italy, It enjoys the same popularity of pizza, They have a lot in common, from the ingredients for the preparation and the filling, to form. It often happens that those who want to quickly prepare the pizza for dinner, use is made of a base “flatbread” for the preparation. A very simple recipe to achieve at home and fast cutting totally the time to rise.

Pizza recipe Piadina
Pizza recipe Piadina

Pizza recipe Piadina

For the preparation of this simple recipe we will need 4 piadine
250 grams of mozzarella
200 grams of tomato sauce seasoned with oil, salt and oregano
Grilled vegetables, diced
extra virgin olive oil
a pinch of salt
a few leaves of fresh basil

Pizza recipe Piadina
Pizza recipe Piadina

Pizza recipe Piadina Preparation

Sprinkle the top of the tortillas with a little tomato pulp, add the diced mozzarella, add the grilled vegetables into cubes.
Dress your pizzas with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and a pinch of salt.
Preheat your oven at a temperature of 200/250 degrees and bake for 10/15 minutes until the mozzarella has melted, oven and add a few leaves of fresh basil.
Serve piping hot.
The flat bread is very easy to make at home, if you are interested, you can see the recipe to prepare it at home in our previous post.
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The piadina wikipedia.

Pizza recipe Piadina
Pizza recipe Piadina
At the Tyrolean Pizza Recipe

At the Tyrolean Pizza Recipe

The recipe for the pizza to the Tyrolean is based on ingredients that are characteristic of this region, the most famous is definitely Speck complete with PGI. South Tyrol. Another characteristic ingredients include pork sausage, and finally, to represent the local gastronomy, i funghi, that in this region thrive.

Tyrolean recipe pizza
Tyrolean recipe pizza

At the Tyrolean Pizza Recipe

The ingredients:
500 grams of flour type 00
5 grams of yeast
270 grams of warm water
a teaspoon of salt
A tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
200 grams of tomato pulp
300 grams of mozzarella
250 grams of Speck
250 grams of sausage of pork
A pinch of pepper

At the Tyrolean Pizza Recipe
At the Tyrolean Pizza Recipe

At the Tyrolean Pizza Recipe

Dough
rising
drawing up
After lying on the four discs of dough, add the tomato, hot dogs, i funghi. The bacon should be added after cooking.
Bake at 250 degrees for 15 minutes, until the edge is perfectly golden
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At the Tyrolean Pizza Recipe
At the Tyrolean Pizza Recipe
pizza recipe biancaneve

White Pizza Recipe

Pizza recipe biancaneve. This is the perfect recipe for lovers of the simple things, in fact the pizza biancaneve is pizza that has fewer ingredients that you can find on menus around the world (immediately after the focaccia).
As you might imagine, its name comes from the fact that it is a white pizza and is prepared by all with a single ingredient…..mozzarella.

White Pizza Recipe
White Pizza Recipe

Snow White recipe Pizza Preparation

The mixture of this pizza is the standard that we use for all our pizza recipes, if you are not expert, you can read our previous article “dough for homemade pizza“.

White Pizza Recipe
White Pizza Recipe

White Pizza Recipe

E’ a pizza very easy to prepare, finished leavening phase, roll out the disks of dough and season with a generous layer of mozzarella.
Sprinkle the surface with a pinch of oregano and freshly ground black pepper.

White Pizza Recipe
White Pizza Recipe

Snow White recipe Pizza Cooking

Preheat your oven at home at a temperature of 220/250 degrees and bake the pizzas for biancaneve 15 minutes, until the edge will prove to be perfectly golden.
When cooked, baked and served piping hot.
A great match for this pizza is to accompany it with a light white.
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capers and cucunci

Capers Features and Use in Cooking

Capers Features and Use in Cooking

Capers Features and Use in Cooking. Capers are the small shrubs. This plant will consume the buds, called capers, and the fruits, called cucunci. They are preserved in oil, pickled or salted.

Capperi Caratteristiche Uso in Cucina
Capers Features and Use in Cooking

Capers Features and Use in Cooking

Capers in gastronomy
They have a strong flavor, in the kitchen they are used to give flavor to other foods in the first, in seconds and in various sauces and condiments.
The best are those salted capers, this method ensures the maintenance of the organoleptic characteristics, without resorting to the addition of additives that can be found in the products pickled.
Market there exists various sizes, those of smaller size, They lend themselves to be eaten whole, while the older ones are chopped and used to flavor sauces and fillings.

Capers Features and Use in Cooking
Capers Features and Use in Cooking

Capers Features and Use in Cooking

Capers best on the market come from the island of Pantelleria which also boast the IGP. The volcanic soil of the island and the right humidity from the sea, give the Capers of Pantelleria a characteristic aroma and unmistakable.

Capers Features and Use in Cooking
Capers Features and Use in Cooking

The fruits of the caper, called cucunci are used in the kitchen in a similar way to the buds. Great as a side dish or as an appetizer.
Capers and cucunci can be found on the market in salt, oil and vinegar, the best are those in salt, although because of excess sodium, at the time of purchase they are often discarded in favor of other. You can remedy the problem of salt, capers and rinse thoroughly under running cold water and letting it soak for about ten minutes.
A good rule is not to add salt to dishes garnished with capers.

Capers Features and Use in Cooking
Capers Features and Use in Cooking

Capers Features and Use in Cooking

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If you want to learn more about the capers, consultation wikipedia.