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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.

5 Tips for Getting A Perfect Pizza

The pizza is definitely the symbol of Italian cuisine in the world. A few months ago, television broadcast “Report” It introduced a service called: Non bruciamoci la pizza, This excellent report has exposed the various pitfalls that lurk inside a pizza, from its cooking until the container to the takeaway in which it is packaged. In this post we will try to briefly summarize the advice we are given.

5 Tips for Getting A Perfect Pizza
5 Tips for Getting A Perfect Pizza

5 Tips for Getting A Perfect Pizza

1) Keep the oven clean, always at room temperature and without smoke emissions.
The oven in which we cook our pizzas, It must be always constantly clean, the temperature must reach and sometimes exceed 400 degrees. Always remove from the oven residue flour burned. Careful not to burn the crust pizzas.

5 Tips for Getting A Perfect Pizza
5 Tips for Getting A Perfect Pizza

2) Attention to rising.
A slow rising returns a product easy to digest and does not cause swelling. Careful not to use pre-cooked or frozen foods as the basis of the fresh ready to replace that is prepared in pizzeria.
3) Use unrefined flour and not carbonized.
Refined flours cause increase in blood glucose with the resulting increase in insulin. This phenomenon leads to a greater accumulation of fat in our blood. Many are now the pizzerias using wholemeal flour or other alternatives. The flour integrali, They are rich in minerals that are almost absent in the flour 00.

5 Tips for Getting A Perfect Pizza
5 Tips for Getting A Perfect Pizza

4) Use San Marzano tomatoes.
For the sauce pizza, They should be used only San Marzano tomatoes, rich in antioxidants, considered as a real fruit, high-fiber, and lycopene higher than the norm.
5) Always use extra virgin olive oil.
In pizzas packed, They are high doses of saturated fats and oils of poor quality, check the labels. Avoid palm oil or similar. Only the self-production gives us the guarantee of a better quality.
6) The mozzarella on pizza.
The pizza, few ingredients, but good. Buy only quality products are sourced Italian.
7) The cardboard for the takeaway pizza.
Are commercially 3 types of cardboard with which they are wrapped pizzas to take away, White pure cellulose, brown semi-chemical and recycled cardboard. The law dictates that only white cardboard woodfree.

5 Tips for Getting A Perfect Pizza

Now that we are at Acquaintances of all the information on how it should be a perfect pizza, we must demand the highest quality from our pizzeria trust.
Here's the video of the transmission report “Non bruciamoci la pizza” which aired in October 2014.
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Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

The pizza is the Italian word better known to the world, second of this special list is the word spaghetti followed by cappuccino.
E’ appreciated both by adults and children to be a genuine flat, tasty and cheap. At home or in a restaurant eating a pizza together is a perfect way to spend an evening.
The pizza has many variations, ranging from the classic margherita to complex offering authentic mix of flavors.
Today I will explain how to make a pizza with truffle, a well known product in the middle northern Italy.

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation
Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

Pizza ingredients Truffle Recipe and Preparation

In my humble opinion, the best way to enjoy a truffle pizza is certainly to grate over a white pizza with mozzarella only, without the tomato, that with the acidity that contains would cover much of the flavor of this special tuber. Despite this, They are many pizza makers that combine truffles with eggs (Bismark) baked ham, pancetta or bacon depending on personal tastes.

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation
Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

Preparation Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

To prepare the, the leavening and the establishment of balls, Please consult our post:
Dough for homemade pizza
Leavening
The drafting of the balls
At this point, add a generous layer of mozzarella on your pizza, the truffle is grated cooked.
Bake in your oven preheated to 200/250 degrees for 15 minutes, until the edge has reached the perfect degree of browning.

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation
Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

Remove from the oven and at this point the grated truffle over hot mozzarella. The warmth of freshly baked pizza will release truffle pizza on an exceptional perfume.
Cut into wedges and serve your pizzas piping hot.
I hope I was clear with the information to make this delicious pizza with truffle. Write your comment and your recipes of pizza with truffle on this page.
To learn more about the truffle can consult wikipedia.

Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation
Pizza Truffle Recipe and Preparation

The Pizza More Long World

That record!!! The world's longest pizza.
The 20 June will be a date to remember for the Italian pizza makers. E’ It was realized the Expo of Milan a long pizza 1595,45 meters and it was therefore torn the previous record held by Spain 1141,5 meters.

The Pizza More Long World
The Pizza More Long World

The Pizza More Long World

Total weight of 5 tons.
The company was brought to an end by 80 Italian pizza with 200 volunteers. For the preparation of the pizza records were needed 5 ovens, a ton and seven hundred kilograms of Italian mozzarella, 1500 pounds of tomatoes, 150 pounds of extra virgin olive oil, 1700 pounds of flour and 30 pounds of yeast.
Cooking times? 3 minutes for each meter of pizza.
The pizza was offered to 30.000 visitors and expo 300 meters of pizza were delivered to the food bank in Milan.
With the completion of this Guinness record, we wanted to celebrate the birthday of pizza margherita that has made its 126 age, In fact it was the year 1889 when he was summoned to court by the pizza maker Raffaele Esposito then she prepares for the royal family of pizzas for her majesty the Queen Margherita of Savoy.

The Pizza More Long World
The Pizza More Long World

The Pizza More Long World

This primacy, It acts as a support for the candidacy international registration of pizza in the unesco list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.
For those who do not is Acquaintances, the business of pizza has achieved in the Itala 10 billion euro, account 63 thousand pizzerias and employs 150 thousand employees. Furthermore, the 39 percent of Italians believe that the pizza is the culinary symbol of Italy according to the website of coldiretti www.coldiretti.it , after all the pizza is the best known Italian word abroad, followed by cappuccino, spaghetti and espresso.
For more information, read the article RaiNews

If you are interested in preparing your home a perfect pizza margherita, please read our previous article on how to prepare a pizza margherita perfect.

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The Pizza More Long World
The Pizza More Long World
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Pizza against Sandwich

Pizza sandwich against Mc Donald
After transmission Report dedicated to the pizza that has angered millions of Italians, Also giant McDonald has turned against the pizza, but this time Italians have risen by responding with clear messages in the network against the multinational company that has dared to challenge our culinary culture.
It seems endless controversy that revolves around the giant McDonald, They were affected all the charges of Italian pizza makers, in a television commercial the global giant has ridiculed the symbol of Italian cuisine, ie pizza, to promote the Happy meal. In tale video, a child sitting at the table of an Italian pizzeria pizza rejects in favor in favor of the sandwich.
Immediately on youtube appeared response Neapolitan pizza showing a boy……I invite you to see the two videos and leave your comments on this page.
The controversy came up in parliament, where the Movement 5 stars, by Luigi Di Maio presented exposed AGCOM to obscure the advertisement and ask to be excluded as an official sponsor of expo 2015.
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Pizzeria Commercial Activity Trend

The term “pizzeria” It is used to indicate several different types of business where the pizza is prepared.
Pizzeria / restaurant, Pizzeria to the cut or takeaway, pizza delivery at home, big fast food chains.
There are other places where it can be consumed pizza: the Rosticcerie, bakeries,. the gastronomy, hypermarkets.
Pizzeria Commercial Activity Trend: The pizzeria / restaurant
The term pizzeria, It is indicated a particular type of restaurant, which serves mainly pizza, trousers, buns and various fried. In the pizzerias you can find other types of food as at any restaurant, guests are served at the table and choose from a menu.
In addition to these local chef is a pizza maker in charge of the oven and the baking of pizzas.
Pizzerias offer the pizza always round up to the plate, so you can decide how much, except in some local, where you can choose between different sizes (small-medium-large). Some pizzerias offer the service of take away, and special containers are used cardboard with which the customer carries the pizza at home.
Some traditional pizzerias, besides the pizza dish, They offer pizza booklet, a small pizza folded in wallet, wrapped with paper food, to be consumed in road.

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Pizzeria Commercial Activity Trend: The pizza slices and takeaway

Much like a diner, this type of pizzeria has a counter suitable for sale, where the pizza maker exposes different kinds of pizza whole or in slices, consumable on site or takeaway. In these cases, the customer, It has the possibility to decide both the type of pizza to buy that quantity, the price can vary depending on the weight or size of the piece of pizza.
In these local, It is often associated with the sale of beverages and food packaged. Often you can find tables and benches where you can have products purchased, but always in self-service.

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Pizzeria

Pizzeria Commercial Activity Trend: Pizzerias home

Widespread in big cities, this type of exercise provides for the sale of pizzas delivered to residence. To advertise these activities spread flyers with their menu and prices in the surrounding areas. On account of the pizzas it is often added some € for the costs of delivery. Deliveries are made by the various portapizza circulating on mopeds which are installed special bins that keep the pizzas warm thermos.

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Pizzeria

Pizzeria Commercial Activity Trend: Large chains of Fast Food

There are large fast food chains that offer the chance to eat pizza with a lot of speed and ease, which is typical of these local. In Italy the fast food chain most famous pizza is called “Spizzico“, while the United States is one of the largest chains Pizza Hut.

All Hawaiian Pineapple Pizza Recipe

Pizza all’ananas. The pizza is definitely one of the most popular dishes in the world, presented in many ways with a wide variety of ingredients, from the simple focaccia or daisy use of original ingredients, to make so many different pizzas and pizza to pineapple is just one of them. The pizza pineapple and ham is also commonly called by the name “Hawaiian”. It could easily be classified as a dessert pizza, or inserted in the category of pizzas savory. Its main ingredients that make it up, I am the ham and pineapple, they mix well giving this pizza a bit’ and a bit of sweet aftertaste’ salty at the same time. This pizza is usually prepared by the classical basis of a daisy with the addition of pineapple pieces and cooked ham quality.

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Pizza hawaiana

All Hawaiian Pineapple Pizza Recipe

The preparation of this pizza is very simple and is one of the few pizzas that do best when cooked in the oven at home, sugars pineapple remaining longer in the cooking in the oven at home, caramellano, giving the pizza a gorgeous color.
The dough is classic homemade pizza, you can find it described in this our previous article.
Once prepared the dough, dividetelo in 4 balls, cover with a clean cloth and let rise for about an hour, until its volume will not be doubled.
After the rising phase, helping you with your fingertips (or a rolling pin) roll the balls to form 4 discs of dough the diameter of about 30 cm.

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Pizza with pineapple and ham

All Hawaiian Pineapple Pizza Recipe

Toss with tomato, mozzarella, pineapple cut into small pieces, ham cubes, Finally, add a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, a pinch of salt and a few leaves of fresh basil.
Bake in your oven preheated to 200/250 degrees and bake for the Hawaiian 15 minutes, until edge is golden to perfection.
Serve warm combined with a light white wine.
You knew this recipe? Come prepari la pizza ananas a casa tua? Give your recipe in the comments on this page.
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All Hawaiian Pineapple Pizza Recipe

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Pineapple pizza with ham cubes

Kamut flour and Pizza

Article updated on 4/10/2022

The kamut flour derived from wheat Eastern, also known as red wheat or khorasan. This type of cereal belongs to the grass family durum wheat.

Native of “fertile crescent” located between Egypt and Mesopotamia, It is characterized by a stem which can reach the 180 inches tall, her his cariosside, that is, the grain is naked and is longer than any other type of wheat. The kamut is very suitable for organic farming as it grows very well without the use of pesticides or fertilizers, therefore it is currently the most organically cultivated species in the world.

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Brand flour kamut

Kamut flour and Pizza

Utilization:
Kamut flour is widely used as a valid alternative to durum wheat, for pasta and flours for food use and its grains are used as ingredients for soups, soups and salads.
Like all cereals, kamut does not have a high amount of gluten, so it is easily digested even by people who suffer from mild eating disorder, however it can not be taken by people with celiac disease.

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A vegan pizza made with kamut flour

The pizza with flour Kamut

The pizza made with the flour of this cereal, it is one of the most popular and appreciated dishes, the paste that is obtained, It turns out to be tasty and soft as traditional pizza, but it is much more digestible.
For the dough with flour kamut followed our previous post “dough for homemade pizza“.
After the mixing phase, dividetelo in 4 balls and let stand one hour for rising.
After an hour, spianate the balls to form 4 discs of dough by the diameter of 30 centimeters.

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Pizza with kamut flour

Dress them to your taste and bake in your oven preheated to 200/250 degrees for 15 minutes, until the edge will prove to be perfectly golden.

If you want to know more about kamut, you can consult wikipedia.

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Pizza with kamut flour
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Focaccia Italian Classic Recipe

La Focaccia Italian Recipe Classic is considered one of the most delicious baked goods on the market and one of the most sold. There is no oven in Italy that has among its products for sale focaccia. Very often it used by families as a replacement of the same bread. E’ exquisite if stuffed with meats and cheeses, but it is much appreciated in the simple version with salt and rosemary.
In the past we have often published many posts concerning different types of focaccia that are produced in our country and now all over the world.

Focaccia Italian Classic Recipe

Focaccia Italiana Ricetta Classica
Focaccia stuffed with salami

 

Here is a list of the best cakes:
Focaccia with apples
Chichì stuffing
Focaccia Mediterranean
Focaccia with onions
Focaccia with cherry tomatoes
Focaccia
Focaccia Pugliese
Focaccia with Nutella
Focaccia with bacon and onions
Focaccia caprese
Potato focaccia
The preparation of the focaccia, It is one of the simplest things to do, flour, water, sale, extra virgin olive oil and a bit of yeast.

Focaccia Italiana Ricetta Classica
Rosemary focaccia

Focaccia Italian Classic Recipe

Ingredients for the dough: 350 grams of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, 210 Ml of water and a bit of yeast. Few ingredients, but good(flour and oil quality)
The dressing: Olive oil, coarse salt and rosemary.

**Each type of flour absorbs water in varying quantities. Always check the right consistency of the dough.

Focaccia Italiana Ricetta Classica
Cake in pan

The preparation: Mix the ingredients and let rise for about an hour.
After the rising phase, roll out the dough in a greased baking sheet with oil.

Focaccia Italian Classic Recipe
Preparation of focaccia

Let stand for another 30 minutes, practiced dimples with the pads of your fingers, seasoned with olive oil, salt and rosemary and bake in preheated oven at 200 degrees for 15/20 minutes, until the surface will be perfectly golden.
Serve hot, warm or cold. Fantastic breakfast, at lunch, a merenda o a cena, but there is nothing better than an aperitif with a cake accompanied by a glass of white wine.
Which is your favorite cake? post your recipe in the comments on this page.
The focaccia on wikipedia.

 

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Porridge Chickpeas Recipe Simple and Tasty

The chickpea flour is a pie very low which is prepared with chickpea flour, water, salt and extra virgin olive oil. Ligurian dish, but also it is known to pisa, leghorn, in nice and across the piedmont. It can be combined with other ingredients such as onions, anchovies, sausage and finally sprinkle with black pepper.
It is cooked in a wood stove or to home, and the cooking takes on a vibrant golden color. Some food companies will distribute a version precooked packaged only to be heated in the oven.

Porridge Ceci
Porridge Ceci

Porridge Chickpeas Recipe Simple and Tasty

This recipe is for 6 people. 15 minutes of preparation, 8 hours of rest, and 30 minutes cooking.
Ingredients: 250 grams of chickpea flour, 700 ml of water, a pinch of salt and pepper, 70 ml of extra virgin olive oil.

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Porridge Ceci

Porridge Chickpeas Recipe Simple and Tasty

Place the chickpea flour in a bowl and slowly add the water, stirring with a whisk to remove any lumps. You will get a liquid, velvety, Stirring the mixture, You will form a foam that will have to remove with a strainer perforated. Let stand for 8 hours at room temperature, stirring and foaming the compound. After 4 hours add the extra virgin olive oil, stirring with whisk.
After 8 hours recommended, the batter is ready to be cooked. Complete this by adding salt and pepper.

Porridge Ceci
Porridge Ceci

Porridge Chickpeas Recipe Simple and Tasty

Cooking. Grease a pan with low sides by oil and pour the batter.
Bake the pan in a preheated oven at 200/220 degrees for 30 minutes until the surface is golden and crispy.
Remove from oven and let cool before serving.
Cut into squares or diamond shapes porridge and serve with cheese, vegetables and salami, but it is also delicious natural, a snack or as an aperitif.
The chickpea flour is a food suitable for any diet, including the vegan, suitable for those who are lactose intoillerante and for those suffering from celiac disease, also suitable for subjects with metabolic diseases.
The average portion of chickpea flour is 300 grams which is equivalent to 290 Kcal.
How to prepare your home the chickpea flour? Give your recipe in the comments on this page.
Read more on the chickpea flour, you can consult wikipedia.

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Porridge Ceci
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Spelt flour the Super Cereal

Spelt flour is obtained by grinding grain of Triticum spelta(farro more), triticum dicoccum(farro medium similar to wheat) o triticum monococcum(einkorn). E’ a cereal very durable, He can grow on poor soils, also in a harsh climate, where durum wheat can not grow.

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spelled flour

Spelt flour in history

Spelt is the oldest varieties of cereal cultivated and consumed by humans since the Neolithic times. Still it is used in the production of pasta and bread. The spelled bread is similar to white, but with a much more intense aroma. The diet based on products derived from barley is very suitable for those who do not digest well bread or pasta made from durum wheat flour or, but spelled flour is not absolutely indicated for celiac subjects.

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spelled flour

Spelled flour nutritional analysis

Spelt has a reduced caloric intake, only 335 kcal per 100 grams of product.
Rich in protein, 15,1 grams / 100 grams of flour, B vitamins, Methionine, cysteine, lecithin, taurine and other phospholipids.
Spelt flour
After threshing, the grain of farro maintains a sort of peel that remains attached to the seed, free nutritional properties. For this reason, following the threshing the grain of spelled can not be directly processed into flour without that occurs before the passage of decortication. This explains why the cost of spelled flour is significantly higher compared to wheat flour also of 3 the 4 times.
In the market there are two types of barley: the hulled and pearled. Hulled type that is subjected to the process of decortication mentioned earlier, It retains pericapo, part of it very rich in fiber, pearl barley in the pericapo the grain is removed. Facing a possible choice, Hulled barley is preferable just because richer in fiber. The pearl barley is still very used because it cooks in less time and the flour produced from it is more clear and less rich in fiber.

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Focaccia with spelled flour

Spelled flour: uses

The spelled flour is widely used for the production of sweets, bread and pasta. Baked goods made with spelled flour, are preferable to those of wheat, since they are more aromatic and even more good. Due to the high fiber content, Products made with this flour regularize the intestinal transit, producing a mild laxative effect. The fibers are made of cellulose, lignin, hemicellulose and other properties nutritional void, the fact remains, that the fibers are very important for the body. In fact, our stomach, the fibers of spelled flour swell, and that is why we also have properties satiating.
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