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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 Mediterranean

Mediterranean Diet Perfect Pizza Recipe

Pizza Mediterranean. The pizza is the main dish of the Mediterranean diet. Besides being tasty, it's really easy to prepare. The ingredients that compose it possess a high biological value, It replaces fully foods like eggs and meat. Eat a pizza is equivalent to a full meal, carbohydrates, Vitamins, protein, lipids and many minerals. The flour gives us carbohydrates, calcium iron and phosphorus, mozzarella provides us with lipids: Vitamins, minerals and proteins, as well as the tomato is rich in minerals and vitamins.

pizza Mediterranean
Pizza Mediterranean

Since mid- 700 when the pizza daisy was made for the first time today, this dish has come a long way, and today there are many types of pizza worldwide: whimsical, spicy, salami, with cottage cheese, seafood, and of different shapes: calzone, cake, cutting, a metro, Round.

Pizza Mediterranean Ingredients

The ingredients with which this is prepared pizza, They could only be those that best represent the Mediterranean diet in the list of intangible cultural heritage of Humanity, namely: The tomato, mozzarella, olive verdi, a handful of capers and a mix of Mediterranean herbs, ie fresh basil, oregano, marjoram and mint, these simple ingredients must be added a splash of extra virgin olive oil, salt and a pinch of pepper.

pizza Mediterranean
Pizza Mediterranean

In this delicious pizza, simple and tasty, as it occurs in the majority of cases, every pizza we add a little 'of creativity, perhaps depending on the season or region of origin. It is not difficult to see the proposal on the menus of Mediterranean pizza pizzerias along the peninsula, combined with cherry tomatoes, or aubergines, mushrooms, or zucchini, products which are very easy to find during the summer.

Mediterranean pizza dough

To do 4 balls 250 grams for each 4 people

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 1,2 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

Pour ingredients into a container and mix vigorously. If you want to know more about the dough, I invite you to click this link which it is explained in detail how to properly do the mixing phase.

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Mediterranean pizza with cherry tomatoes

After completing the mixing phase, dividetelo in 4 balls and cover with a cloth to avoid exposing it to direct contact with the air. Let stand for at least an hour for rising.

Meanwhile we prepare the sauce. Diced in a bowl tomato and mozzarella, season with mixed herbs (oregano, basil, marjoram, mint and add oil, sale e pepe.

Roll out the balls to form discs of dough by the diameter of 30 centimeters and pour the sauce on pizza Mediterranean.

Bring your oven at a temperature of 200/250 degrees and bake your pizzas for 10-15 minutes, until the edge will prove to be perfectly golden. Serve hot.

Pizza light and pizza Mediterranean delicatala, then combined with a white light or maybe a sparkling.

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Mediterranean pizza freshly baked

What is your recipe for pizza Mediterranean? Leave it in the comments on this page, It will be of great help to our readers.

Did not know the Mediterranean diet? Take a look at wikipedia.

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Pizza Parmigiana Inviting and succulent

The Pizza Parmigiana It takes its name from the recipe of "eggplant parmigiana" one of the most famous dishes of the Sicilian tradition, and obviously it is made with the same ingredients. It is simple to prepare and rich flavor, inviting and luscious. Eggplant, tomatoes, grated Parmesan cheese and mozzarella are the ingredients that make this pizza.

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Pizza parmigiana

Pizza Parmigiana: Preparation of eggplant

Wash the eggplant and cut into thin slices 4-5 millimeters thick. In a large skillet, heat plenty of oil, past the eggplant slices in flour and dip them in hot oil. When they are golden on both sides, drain and leave to dry on absorbent paper that is commonly used in cooking.

Pizza parmigiana: Pizza dough.

Serves 4 pizzas to the pot or pan for a 30 x 40 cm suitable for standard furnaces home.

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 1,2 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

pizza parmigiana
Pizza parmigiana

In a large container, pour water and yeast scioglieteci, add sugar, oil and flour. Mix the ingredients then add salt.

Stir vigorously until the ingredients form a soft and elastic dough that comes away completely from your hands.

Divide the dough into 4 balls and place them in a container with lid, let stand for about an hour for rising. When the dough has doubled in volume, we may commence the drafting of the balls.

With the help of a rolling pin, roll out the balls to form 4 discs of dough by the diameter of 30 centimeters.

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Delicious pizza parmigiana

Pizza Parmigiana: The dressing.

With a spoon, add tomato on the discs of dough, leaving a border of a centimeter.

Arrange the slices of fried eggplant that you previously over the entire surface.

A generous sprinkling of grated Parmesan cheese, a few leaves of fresh chopped basil and cover with a generous layer of mozzarella.

It is important that mozzarella completely covers the Parmesan cheese to prevent this burn during cooking in the oven.

Preheat your oven to good 200/250 degrees.

When it is hot bake your pizza parmigiana.

Employ approximately 15 minutes cooking, but much will depend on the type of oven you are using. When the edge of the pizzas will be perfectly golden, baked your pizzas and serve hot.

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Pizza with eggplant parmigiana

Like parmigiana? The often prepare at home? Give your recipe in the comments on this page, It will be of great help to our readers.

You knew the eggplant parmigiana? If you want to know more, check wikipedia.

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A pan of pizza with eggplant parmigiana
onion pizza

Pizza onion A Delicious Dish Poor

Pizza onion, a delicious dish poor. By now we all know the history of pizza and the pizza maker Raffaele Esposito, what not everyone remembers, is, that pizza should be interpreted in many recipes as a "poor man's dish". Thus it was born many years ago. The onion was one of the first popular as seasoning ingredients on the pizza. Even today, you can find all the kilns that produce bread all along the peninsula.

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Focaccia with bacon and onion

All those who perform daily work that leads them to be in close contact with the public, I'm a little 'reluctant to eat pizza with onion, We know it is easy to recognize by the breath of a person if he ate onion.

On the market for many years there is a type of onion that does not cause this unpleasant drawback, and much of its success is due precisely to this, we are talking about the red onion.

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Focaccia with red onions

The sweet taste of cooked onion on a bun, seasoned with rosemary, salt and olive oil is unrivaled. In this pizza topping it is often used, and many times is combined with other ingredients, I quote a few of the many advantages that, They have one particular, to make mouth-watering:

Pizza with tuna and onions, Green olives and onion, focaccia with onions and sage.

Pizza onion A Delicious Dish Poor

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A daisy with onion

Today we will deal with the most classic, pizza with white onion, which in my opinion has something more in taste, compared to her cousin "red Tropea".

The doses listed below are sufficient to prepare 4 pizzas to the plate, or a pan standard 30×40 fit your oven at home.

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 1,2 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

Pizza onion A Delicious Dish Poor

In a suitable container, pour water and yeast scioglieteci, add oil, sugar and flour and stir vigorously. After a few minutes add the salt. Mix the product until the dough is soft and elastic that comes off completely from your hands.

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Focaccia with onions

Divide the dough into 4 balls and leave to rest for the leavening for about one hour.

After the rising phase, roll out the balls to form discs of dough diameter 30 centimeters.

Finely chop the onion in a bowl and season with extra virgin olive oil and salt. Pour the onion on the pizza and add rosemary, salt and oil on the surface of the pizza. Preheat your oven 200/250 degrees and bake for 10 minutes. When the board turn out to be golden to perfection, baked and served piping hot perhaps accompanied with white wine.

What is your favorite recipe with onion? Leave your comment on this page.

If you want to know more about the onion, consultation wikipedia.

Tomato Pizza Recipe Rocket Stracchino

The recipe pizza rocket tomato soft cheese is simple to create at home and at the same time very fresh and tasty. The same ingredients are the basis of a delicious summer salad. It is one of the favorite pizza vegetarians ... and not only. This pizza is present in many menu of Italian restaurants and pizzerias, even if the same ingredients are proposed with different bases: delicious version "cake"With the addition of the ingredients after cooking, come topping. Too bad version of this pizza made on the basis of a margherita, on which once baked, They are added arugula tomatoes and cheese stracchino. The other version, it also very much in demand, It provides a base with only mozzarella baked, to which are added after cooking stracchino, arugula and cherry tomatoes seasoned and cut into wedges.

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Pizza with rocket cheese and cherry tomatoes

To prepare it at home, you'll need a box of fresh soft cheese, rocket and a handful of cherry tomatoes.

The pizza dough soft cheese arugula cherry tomatoes

Doses to prepare 4 balls 250 grams for each 4 people

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 1,2 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

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Pizza with rocket and cherry tomatoes with soft cheese

In a container, pour water and scioglieteci crumbs of leaven, sugar and oil. Add the flour and mix. Add the salt and knead vigorously until a soft and elastic product that will fall away completely out of your hands and the container.

The rise of soft cheese pizza arugula cherry tomatoes

Divide the dough into 4 pats and formed 4 balls. Place them in a container with a lid and let it stand for about an hour, or until the volume of the dough will not be doubled.

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Red pizza with arugula and cherry tomatoes stracchino

The drafting of the soft cheese pizza arugula cherry tomatoes

After the rising phase, helping with a rolling pin, roll out the four balls to form discs of dough by the diameter of 30 centimeters.

Seasoning: You can realize your pizza the way you like, on the basis of a focaccia, on the basis of a daisy, or on a white base with only mozzarella.

The ingredients that make this pizza, They will always be added at the end, that is cooked.

Preheat your oven 200/250 degrees and bake for about 10 minutes, until the edge reaches the right gilding.

The right match for this tasty pizza "light" may be a white light like "Verdicchio"

If you do not know Verdicchio, Have a look at wikipedia.

Did you already know this pizza? As you prepare your home? Leave in comments your recipe, share with our readers.

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Delicious pizza with arugula and cherry tomatoes stracchino
chicory

Radicchio Use in Cooking and Recipes

Chicory. In the market there are many varieties of this plant, some wild varieties we have mentioned in my previous article on Dandelion, that is the wild radish for excellence. Today we will discuss the quality red, It is part of the family of composite and is a chicory, In fact, its technical name is Intybus. She loves the cold, its flavor varies depending on the region in which is produced, certainly the most famous (and the most imitated and forged) It is the "Treviso radicchio", the Red one, pleasantly bitter and crunchy. In addition to Treviso, it's easy to find the red Verona and The Red Chioggia.

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Radicchio di Chioggia

They are divided into two types, those deep red color and those with variegated leaves.

Radicchio Properties:

Valuable ally of the cardiovascular system, our intestines, nervous system and skin. It contains many minerals, such as potassium, magnesium, football, zinc, phosphorus,sodium, copper, iron, manganese and B vitamins, C, E, K. Very useful in low calorie diets, valuable aid against constipation and for those who have digestive problems. Food much recommended for those suffering from diabetes type 2, its fibers are able to retain the sugars present in the blood.

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Radicchio di Treviso

All the old ladies in ancient times the recommended to those who slept little and badly, Recent studies have shown that contains tryptophan which helps to fight insomnia.

Radicchio in the kitchen

It was cultivated already in 1500 as poor food for use as feed for animals. Slowly over the years it has acquired a success on our tables.

In the kitchen is used raw on salads to enrich color, famous its use in risotto, fried in batter or delicious on the grill.

Even the pizzeria took up this magnificent ingredient, if wilted in a pan then add the mozzarella on pizza, gives life to a fabulous combination of flavors.

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Radicchio

Recipes

Listed below, a list of the most common recipes offered by the restaurants of our peninsula.

Risotto sausage and red chicory

Radicchio and gorgonzola risotto

Savory pie with bacon and radicchio

Parmigiana Trevigiana

Chicory in a pan with raisins and pine nuts

What is your favorite recipe that often realize at home with this ingredient? Leave it in the comments on this page, It will be of help to all our readers.

To know more , site visit www.radicchio.it

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Chicory
hell pizza

Hell Pizza Recipe Ingredients Preparation

The Pizza Inferno is part of the category "spicy pizzas" title borrowed from many horror films, but that leaves well imagine what they will face in eating this pizza.

Other pizzas in category spicy more or less famous that we find in the menus of pizzerias are: Satan, Mexican, Calabrese, Paradiso & Inferno and some calzone, Bootstrap and the Flames of Hell, up to the pizza Etna, served at the table with the spectacular presentation "flambé".

From town "sinner" human, on retirement, I can imagine a rosy future for me considering that I am a lover of spicy food.

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Pizza inferno

Hell Pizza ingredients

The delicious ingredients that make this pizza are: tomato, mozzarella, anchovies, capers, pepperoni and chilli.

Hell Pizza recipe

These doses are to achieve at home 4 pizzas to the pot or a pan 30 x 40 cm which it is the standard sizes of the home oven.

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Pizza hell spicy

Hell Pizza Dough

Recipe homemade pizza
Ingredients Note
Flour 500 grams DO NOT use flour with baking powder already mixed in, or mixtures of meals. If you want to eat your pizza tonight for dinner, used a normal flour type "0", if it is produced from some local mill even better.
Water 250 grams Your tap water is not cold, around 20 degrees.
Extra virgin olive oil 1-2 spoons It is not of fundamental importance, but a few tablespoons of oil will improve the gluten of your pizza.
Sale 5-10 grams (1-2 teaspoons) Shortly sale, and never in direct contact with the yeast. To avoid making mistakes, add it to your mixture near the end.
Fresh yeast 2-3 grams It's not a typo, fresh yeast 2 the 3 grams. Considers that a cube of yeast bought at the supermarket weighs 25 grams, BUY therefore only a few crumbs. The granular yeast is fine but being dehydrated ferments, leavening will take longer. Absolutely do not use the baking powder in sachets with or without vanillin..

 

Preparation of the dough for pizza.

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Hell Pizza with peppers

Pour water into a bowl, scioglieteci the yeast and the oil and add the flour. After the ingredients are blended, add the salt.

When the dough comes away completely from your hands, It will be ready for the next step.

Dividetelo in 4 balls, cover with a tea towel and leave to stand for one hour for rising.

Meanwhile, prepare the ingredients for stuffing your pizzas.

After the time necessary for leavening, grease with a little oil 4 round containers for bakery, also those of aluminum that commonly found in all supermarkets are fine (diameter 28-30 cm). Appoggiateci above the balls and press with your fingertips from the center outward. This can make it at home with a rolling pin if you find it easier.

After the drawing up its balls, helping with a spoon add the tomato, chop the anchovy fillets evenly on pizza, add the capers, Arrange the slices of pepperoni across the surface and add a generous layer of mozzarella. When cooked, add hot oil on the surface of your pizzas before serving at the table.

Bake in your oven preheated to 200/250 degrees for 10 minutes or until the board reaches the browning perfect.

To accompany a good pizza hell necessarily need a good strong red wine and ... ..speriamo who have also "there" when I get!!

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Pizza inferno piccantissima

Like the spicy pizza? Leave us your recipe in the comments on this page.

If you want to know more about hell, Have a look at wikipedia, click here.

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What To Use Mozzarella Pizza

Which use mozzarella for pizza? The classic dilemma of Hamlet-like all those who are on track to make pizza at home, very similar to another "fried egg with a little oil and a knob of butter?”

Prepared then to solve this question once and for all!!! Mozzarella is a product made of spun paste with STG brand that is a traditional specialty guaranteed. Given her goodness and practicality in preparation (just open the box and eat it) It is definitely the queen of our tables, I would add that this product certainly figure among those that have made the traditional Italian cuisine and world famous. Its qualities that distinguish begin from spinning hot during production, giving diverse forms, which take their name from the "hot docking": morsels, braid, up to the classic round shape of mozzarella that we usually see in supermarkets.

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Mozzarella fiordilatte

What To Use Mozzarella Pizza?

There are dozens of different types on the shelf and is often difficult to move towards a good buy. You will certainly have to read between the various labels "pizza mozzarella”, this type of mozzarella contains less fat and less water, all this makes it more suited to be machined in a pizzeria, It will simply chop it and does not need to be drained before adding the pizza. This is definitely the main problem for the pizza makers and for all those who wish to prepare their own pizza in the oven at home ... "serum" which is often the main cause of bad success of pizza. During cooking the cheese loses serum and one has the horrible floating effect of the ingredients on the pizza. Fortunately this is a problem that affects only those who use an electric or gas oven (just those at home)which does not reach high temperatures, who uses a wood stove classic, where temperatures can reach even the 400 degrees and the pizza bakes perfectly in a couple of minutes, You do not have this problem. Pizza mozzarella usually has an elongated shape and compact and tasting it, you will find that it has nothing to do with the taste of a common mozzarella, the right word to describe the taste of the mozzarella for pizza is "tasteless".

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Mozzarella fiordilatte

What To Use Mozzarella Pizza? THE FIORDILATTE

Fiordilatte, the "real" made exclusively from cow's milk is a good product, but unfortunately if you do not have a wood stove will have the same problem of flotation of the ingredients on the pizza, releases very serum during cooking. Actually what makes this kind of tasty mozzarella at our palate is precisely the serum contained in it, then try to fix it by putting it in school does not help!!. Be careful not to overdo the draining, otherwise you end up using a horrible dry cheese on your pizza and all that would result in an inevitable loss of taste that just characterizes fiordilatte.

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A braid of mozzarella

What To Use Mozzarella Pizza? THE BUFFALO MOZZARELLA

Do you really want to know my opinion on the use of buffalo mozzarella on pizza? Cook the buffalo mozzarella for me is comparable to a "CRIME". This product has in the serum content in it's own strength which gives an excellent flavor, unfortunately, to make it suitable for the purpose, there would remain that drain for several hours to separate it from the whey, but with the result of finding ourselves a rubbery mozzarella on our pizza, ... or a pizza "flooded". I leave to you the decision.

For all those who do not want to give up their bufala, I recommend adding it after cooking, maybe spezzettandola grossly over his pizza.

"Gustibus non est disputandum" .... So it is saying very old, I have certainly invented it.

We'd love to hear your opinion about the mozzarella for pizza. Leave a comment on this page!

Want to know more about buffalo mozzarella? Take a look atwikipedia.

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Buffalo mozzarella
portulaca

Portulaca Collection and Use in Cooking

Purslane is one of the herbs known, the plant with the highest content of omega 3. Dinner with a salad of purslane, It is the equivalent of a nice dinner with baked cod. And 'widespread in all temperate zones of the world, and not knowing the characteristics, all treat her like succulent plant pest.

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La Portulaca oleracea

Portulaca properties and benefits

It is growing in the fields, in proximity to population centers, and it can be found even in the cracks of sidewalks in the middle of town. Its leaves are rich in mucilage, even its yellow flowers are edible, this fantastic vegetable contains few calories and is rich in dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals. Its fresh leaves have a content of omega 3 higher than any other vegetable green leaves. It is known that the consumption of foods rich in fatty acids and omega 3 greatly reduce the risk of coronary heart disease and stroke.

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Portulaca

Portulaca collection

Its scientific name is "portulaca oleracea" and might seem strange, but each region calls it by a different name: Procacchia, porcelain, grass pigs, rich grass etc.. In hot weather, when the weeds are scarce, It will be very easy to pick the purslane, because she loves the sun. There is no good thing in a fresh tomato salad with the addition of tender leaves and fleshy purslane, seasoned with oil, salt and oregano, Dish really refreshing. If it sounds interesting, you can enrich this dish with the addition of diced cheese, cucumbers and onions.

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Plant portulaca

On pizza…

Back in the years "90" in a competition for pizza makers in Montecarlo, I presented a pizza named: "Pizza herb Valley tronto" In my eyes it was something exceptional, a white pizza with mozzarella melted with addition of wild rocket, purslane and mushrooms pioppini. The jury accused me of having a pizza made with the "weeds". Patience!! The knowledge of herbs is not everyone's cup!

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The portulaca

Portulaca ... some recipes.

For true connoisseurs of herbs, counsel to prepare and enjoy a salad of arugula and purslane, perhaps with the addition of a few flakes of parmesan, to get your fill of omega 3.

And an omelette with this herb fat you've never tasted? Delicious.

Aperitif "greasy grass": prepared a batter, dip the freshly picked sprigs of this plant and fry in hot oil for a few minutes. Serve with a good prosecco!

It also has properties antiscorbutic, refreshing and diuretic, In fact in the history of the sailors on the ships they brought with them large quantities, they consumed during long journeys.

Did you already know this plant? How to prepare the? Give your recipe in the comments on this page.

If you want to learn more about this plant, you can consult wikipedia.

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Portulaca oleracea

Ricotta Pizza 15 Fantastic Recipes

Ricotta Pizza...... Ricotta is widely used in kitchen, The pastry chefs use this product for many years with success and there are thousands of recipes that have as an ingredient ricotta. It is a poor food, in low fat, therefore suitable for all low-calorie diets. Even the great chef make extensive use of this product, found its most widely used in various stuffed pasta, cannelloni, bauletti, ravioli, and in many other ways. Every Italian region offers among its specialties, some recipes made with ricotta cheese.

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Pizza with ricotta and spinach

La ricotta Pizza

In pizzeria, pairing cheese pizza has always existed, since the time of Raffaele Esposito and Queen Margherita of Savoy.

On pizza, ricotta proposal is always combined with other ingredients. In these my notes, I wanted to sum up the pizzas and cheese ... that you can find on the menu of our peninsula and beyond, now the cheese on the pizza far exceeded our borders.

The ricotta can be added both before cooking and after cooking spread on the pizza, or it can even be used in place of mozzarella.

I remember many years ago, in full season of figs, I prepared a delicious dessert pizza with ricotta cheese spread on a cake, fresh figs and caramelized sugar, at that time it was very much in demand, who knows if it would have the same success today?

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Pizza cheese and tomato pesto

Ricotta Pizza Recipes

Pizza tomatoes, ricotta and fresh basil: This pizza is the most popular and most requested, on the basis of a focaccia, cooked cheese is added, cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, oil salt pepper.

Spinach and ricotta: Another classic pizzeria, the spinach must be stir-fried with bacon, then added to the raw cheese spread on pizza.

Grilled vegetables and ricotta: In summer when full season of vegetables to be grilled, this pizza is really delicious.

Pesto ricotta and mozzarella: Yummy pizza, on a base of pizza with melted mozzarella, It is added ricotta, all seasoned with pesto alla Genovese.

Ricotta cheese and ham: All the ingredients are cooked in the oven, provolone with the ham, give a delicious flavor with ricotta.

Zucchini and ricotta: It's not a pizza for strong palates or smoking, zucchini are sautéed in the pan, then added to the cheese on pizza.

Cottage cheese and red onion: From Calabria arrive only good things!Red onion browned in the pan is added to the cheese then bake.

Broccoli and ricotta

Cottage cheese and pepper

Cottage cheese and anchovies

Cottage cheese and smoked salmon

Asparagus and ricotta

Sausage and ricotta

Nuts and ricotta: Pizza with cheese, brie cheese, a sprinkling of Parmesan cheese and salt and pepper noci.Olio.

Ricotta and salami

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Cottage cheese for pizza

What is your recipe for pizza with ricotta? Leave a comment on this page.

Would you like to learn more about the cottage cheese? Let's take a look at wikipedia

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Ham and cheese on pizza
pizza esplanade

The Pizza Esplanade Description and Recipes

Pizza Esplanade. Today I will try to clarify one of the more complex concepts of pizzeria. Around the word "plateau" in the greatest confusion reigns pizzeria!! Very often the case that customers order an esplanade for 2 or for 3 people without really knowing or know the meaning of this term.

The pizza esplanade was born many years ago as a unique bakery product, it is a thin focaccia white, without any seasoning, it is crispy and crumbly.

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As should be the pizza esplanade

With the passage of time, each region has made its own recipe, very often inappropriately using the term esplanade, and unfortunately, always at the expense of crunchiness and crispness of the product.

Pizza Esplanade As It Should Be

The esplanade should be a simple focaccia thin and crisp without any seasoning or stuffing. Once baked, It can be stuffed at will, with mortadella, arugula, cherry tomatoes, tuna, ham and many other ingredients that do not release water, the esplanade, It is inumidita, lose its crunchiness.

Pizza Esplanade How Should Not Be

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Stuffed pizza

Too often over the counter by pizzerias it reads the indication of pizza esplanade for a product of "open space" has nothing, you know very well that if you add tomato or mozzarella on a thin pizza, the result will not be sure of a product crispy and crumbly, as the tomato mozzarella, It contains a lot of water. It would be appropriate to call this product "pizza dish great for 3 the 4 People "

Conclusions

I am a simple pizza, I'm not a judge, then I would never dare to criticize products that over time have earned a place in the regional culinary traditions, products such as the esplanade of Romagna, the esplanade Roman, the esplanade of Calabria or the esplanade Sardinian, exceptional products, all boast of the title esplanade, but all different.

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Pizzas stuffed

It is evident that with the passage of time the term esplanade, It is no longer used to distinguish the characteristics of a product, but it is to indicate a type of thin pizza, that can be stuffed in many different ways. Good to know. All this suggests to me a good idea for my next creative recipe .... How about a taste of my calzone "esplanade"??

What is your opinion? How do the esplanade in your region? Let us know, leave your comment on this page.

Want to know more curiosity about the term "open space"? here's a good one for you wikipedia. Clicca who.

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Pizzas stuffed