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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.
wheat pizza

Integral Perfect Pizza - The Recipe

The wheat pizza is light, healthy, has less calories, is crisp, is good, date, Genuine, dietetics, has a lower glycemic index and has an intense flavor and natural, is high in fiber and contains some very important minerals like iron. If all this is true, because it is not used by everyone? And to think that at the end of 1800 when it was "invented" pizza, use was made of only whole wheat flour, processing flour "refined" the type "0" and "00" was invented only recently. In recent times there are many pizzerias that have started adding a percentage of whole wheat pizza dough, everything comes at the expense of the "look" but undoubtedly enriches the pizza taste and fragrance.

wheat pizza
Pizza integral

Before starting with the preparation, it is fair to add some helpful tips:

  • The dough for the pizza made with whole wheat flour requires much more time for leavening (twice).
  • Flours absorb much more water than refined flour, then, the amount of water that you will find in the recipe is indicative, and you'll feel yourself the consistency of the dough obtained, if it is too hard, add a little 'of water.
  • Many mixtures are made by adding a percentage of wheat flour and a percentage of refined flour to obtain a product easier to work.
wheat pizza
Pizza integral

Integral Perfect Pizza - The Recipe

Serves 4 pizzas to the plate:

500 grams of wheat flour

200 grams of flour "0"

Half a liter of water

5 grams of yeast

4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon salt

1 spoonful of sugar

**Each type of flour absorbs water in varying quantities. Always check the proper consistency of the mix.

Sift the flour (see it), Dissolve the yeast in the water is not cold(20 degrees)pour everything into a basin and began to knead. After all blended add the salt, sugar and oil, stir until the mixture is thick and elastic, until it comes away completely from your hands.

Divide the dough into 4 balls and let rise for 2 hours or until its volume will not be doubled.

A rising completed, spianate the balls, and seasoned pizzas at your leisure.

Heat very much well the oven 200/250 degrees, then bake your pizzas that will be ready after about 15 minutes of cooking, or when the edge of the pizzas will prove to be perfectly golden.

Bon Appetite.

Wheat pizza will be one of many topics that we will cover in the "course of pizza" that will take place from 10 to the 19 April. Read more about the course click here.

wheat pizza
Pizza Margherita integral

If you want to learn more about the flour, Have a look at wikipedia

caprese pizza recipe

Pizza Caprese: The Recipe to prepare a House

The pizza caprese as we all surely know, inherited its name from the most famous Caprese salad, typical recipe of the island Capri.

caprese pizza
The pizza caprese

It is now widespread throughout the Italian. Contrary to what you may think, the caprese pizza is a dish suitable for all seasons, simple, fresh and light. The ingredients that compose it are: buffalo mozzarella and tomato salad "ox heart" that should be cut into thin slices and laid on top of a warm, freshly baked focaccia. Of crucial importance is the oregano and fresh basil with its scents complete this delicious pizza.

caprese pizza
Pizza Capri

Pizza Caprese: The Recipe to prepare a House

Prepare the cake is simple: With the dosage regimen in our recipe, you will get 3 pizzas diameter 28-30 cm, be stuffed to prepare your pizza caprese.

Recipe for focaccia:

Flour type "O" 550 grams

Water 330 ml not cold(20 degrees around)

2 tablespoons olive oil

13 grams of salt

1 spoonful of sugar

3 grams of yeast

Preparation of focaccia:

Dissolve yeast in water, add flour, oil and sugar and started to knead. Once blended the ingredients, add the salt. When the dough will be compact and elastic, dividetelo in 3 balls, cover them well and let rise until doubled in volume will not be, take about an hour.

Roll out the balls with a rolling pin or your fingertips to give the size of the container for cooking.

Let rise for other 30 minutes, then seasoned with olive oil, salt and rosemary.

Bake in an oven pre-heated to 200 degrees for 15 minutes or until the surface will be completely golden.

Preparation of caprese:

Thinly sliced ​​tomato and buffalo mozzarella, Arrange the slices over the pizza focaccia still hot (see figure below), add the fresh basil, oregano and season with extra virgin olive oil and salt.

caprese pizza recipe
Pizza Capri

Bon Appetite

Want to know more about Capri? Let's take a look at wikipedia

Pizza and Mushrooms a Perfect Marriage: Recipe

The mushroom pizza is certainly one of the most requested in every pizzeria in the world. Mushrooms pleasant aroma and delicate, are highly appreciated by all, and contain a multitude of minerals and vitamins.

mushroom pizza
Mushroom Pizza

The fungi most commonly used for pizza, are of the type mushroom and porcini.

Mushroom: Also commonly called prataioli, are the most widely cultivated mushrooms, are delicious on pizza, both raw and sautéed.

Porcini: Mushrooms porcini are fragrant and very fine, belong to the family of boletes, are readily available in every supermarket, Fresh, pickled or frozen.

Champignon mushrooms should not be washed, but if you are willing to do so, do it very quickly under running water, because they absorb a lot of water and this will impact on the final result. As is known, all mushroom pickers use knife, brush and a cloth for cleaning the fungi, but no water. The porcini mushrooms should never be washed.

mushroom pizza
Mushroom Pizza

As an ingredient for the pizza mushrooms can be matched with an infinity of other ingredients: The ham, sausage, bacon, i carciofini, pesto, and it is equally the same exquisite pizza with mixed mushrooms.

The dough to prepare pizza to fungi is the same for all other types of pizza and for the doses and ingredients click here.

After spread the dough Pizza, add the tomatoes and sprinkle with a spoon on the basis, add mushrooms and cover with a layer of mozzarella.

Bring your oven at a temperature of 200-250 degrees and when it is hot bake your pizza mushrooms.

After 15 minutes check the doneness of your pizzas, and only when the board will prove to be perfectly golden baked and served piping hot your pizza.

mushroom pizza
Mushroom Pizza

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If you want to know more about the porcini mushrooms, laws this article his wikipedia.

The Vegetarian Pizza Recipe and Preparation

The vegetarian pizza recipe is a fantastic solution for those who do not want to give up the pizza and have an eye toward the balance, for those who chose to be vegetarian, or those who simply loves the taste of fresh vegetables.

vegetarian pizza
The vegetarian pizza

In some places it is also called Pizza ortolana, indicating that it is made with ingredients from the. Does not have a standard recipe with regard to the ingredients that compose, but to get the most of taste is essential to use seasonal vegetables. In any case the zucchini, aubergines and peppers seem to be on every vegetarian pizza. Other vegetables recommended for this type of pizza are: Corn, spinach, carrots, pumpkin, tomatoes, potatoes, the olive, onion, celery, i carciofini.

vegetarian pizza
Vegetarian Pizza

The secret to this simple pizza is enclosed in the preparation of vegetables, that first go marinades.

The marinade: The choice of the liquid with which to marinate vegetables, very dependent on our tastes, a good rule in your help would be to use the lemon juice to the fish, vinegar for vegetables for meat and a mix of red wine and vinegar. At this basic ingredient you'll need to add olive oil, sale, and odors such as garlic, rosemary, oregano and pepper.

Vegetarian Pizza

Procedure: Cut the vegetables into thin slices and immergiamole in the liquid marinade for a few hours.

On a hot plate grigliamo our sliced ​​vegetables for a few minutes and at this point they are ready to be placed on the pizza.

In this article you will find instructions on how to prepare the pizza dough at home.

After the step of rising, spianate the balls of dough with a spoon and add the tomato, you have pizza on the grill vegetables, season with salt and olive oil finally cover with a layer of mozzarella.

vegetarian pizza
The vegetarian pizza

Preheat your oven to good 200 degrees before baking your pizzas, that employ 15 minutes to cook, or until the edge of the pizzas not prove to be perfectly golden.

The chili besides being also considered it a vegetable, matches perfectly with this pizza, then aggiungetene at your leisure.

How to prepare the veggie pizza to your door? Leave a comment on this page.

If you want to know more about the chili, take a look at wikipedia.

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vegetarian pizza
Vegetarian Pizza
Neapolitan pizza recipe

The Recipe Pizza Napoletana in 3 Simple Steps

The Recipe Pizza Napoletana in 3 Simple Steps

The recipe Pizza Napoletana is simple to implement at home. When I speak of Pizza Napoletana, to speak better, I refer to the one with anchovies and capers. Although Italy is a very small country and where we all speak the same language (much) on this topic is often confusion: Ask a true Neapolitan recipe pizza Napoletana, and you will feel that it is the answer STG pizza recipe, rigorously cooked in a wood oven and with buffalo mozzarella, but, just move a hundred miles to the north and will answer all the Neapolitan pizza is the one with anchovies and capers.

Neapolitan pizza recipe
The Neapolitan pizza

The delicious pizza Napoletana-favorite smoking, always looking for strong flavors, and is the quintessential pizza to be enjoyed in front of a glass of white wine.

Its simple ingredients, The tomato, anchovies, capers and mozzarella, give this pizza a unique scent.

The mixture for preparing this exquisite pizza is common to all the other pizzas and found on This Page, where is detailed the mixing phase and tips for a perfect leavening.

After having leveled the disks of dough, with a spoon, add the tomato puree, add the anchovy fillets / anchovies chopped, a dozen capers well washed, short sale (the anchovies are already salted) oregano, a drizzle of olive oil and cover with mozzarella, Finally recommend everyone to add some black olive.

Neapolitan pizza recipe
Pizza Napoletana

Cooking. A hot oven before baking your pizzas, will guarantee a sure hit with your guests, ... then baked at best (200 degrees or more) and only when it is hot bake your pizzas Napoletane. After 15 minutes check for doneness, if the board will prove to be perfectly golden, you can serve your pizzas.

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Neapolitan pizza recipe
Pizza Napoletana
Italian pizza

Italian Pizza Recipe to prepare it to Casa Tua

Prepare the recipe "Pizza Italy"At home following our advice is very simple and the success is guaranteed. Soft, tasty-looking and inviting, the Italian pizza is a dish suitable for all seasons. The marriage of flavors of arugula, along with mozzarella and tomatoes sweet "tomatoes" make this pizza one of the most requested by those who are looking for a light snack, or those who are always on a diet, given its low calorie.

Italian pizza
The Italian pizza

I introduced her to the public the first time in a European competition for pizza makers in the early '90 ", where he obtained an unexpected success, and since then I always try to put it in my proposals. It 'just watch the pizza to understand that the inspiration was taken from the logo of the "tricolor arrows".

The simple realization of this pizza, involves the preparation of a pizza focaccia, and, cooked're going to add the arugula, the mozzarella, cut into slices and cherry tomatoes, cut into wedges.

Italian pizza
The Italian pizza

Prepare the cake is very simple and if you have no experience could definitely be of help reading this previous article of mine.

Italian Pizza Recipe to prepare it to Casa Tua

The doses given are to achieve 3 pizzas diameter 28-30 cm.

Dough:

Flour type "O" 550 grams

Water 330 ml not cold(20 degrees around)

2 tablespoons olive oil

13 grams of salt

1 spoonful of sugar

3 grams of yeast

Dissolve yeast in water, add flour, oil and sugar and started to knead. Once blended the ingredients, add the salt. When the dough will be compact and elastic (are sufficient 5 minutes) dividetelo in 3 balls, cover them well and let rest (rising) until doubled in volume, take about an hour.

Roll out the balls with a rolling pin or your fingertips to give the size of the container.

Leave to rest for other 30 minutes, then seasoned with olive oil, salt and rosemary. Bake in an oven pre-heated to 200 degrees for 15 minutes or until the surface will be completely golden.

Freshly baked buns, add the rocket, mozzarella and tomatoes as shown below.

Italian pizza
Place ingredients

Helpful hints: The Italian pizza, as all the pizzas, be served hot, then, immediately after it is baked hurry to add the ingredients for the topping and serve it to your guests before it cools.

Italian pizza
Pizza Italy

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pizza capricious

The Pizza Capricciosa Original Recipe and preparation

The pizza capricious is the most classic Italian pizzas. And 'present in all menus of pizzerias. The customer undecided always end up ordering the pizza capricious, rich, abundant and imaginative, this pizza always manages to please everyone.

pizza capricious
The pizza capricious

Its name comes definitely looking with which it has, "Capricious" for its look and for the combination of ingredients, ham, the artichokes, the mushrooms and black olives. And 'composed with the same ingredients of pizza 4 seasons, but it is the provision of them that makes these two different pizzas.

In time, as often happens with all of the pizzas, the pizza capricious has been transformed due to the customs and traditions of different territories, the ingredients with which it is prepared, may vary from region to region. In Sicily, for example, there is pizza capricious that has not boiled egg among its ingredients, I got to taste it with the mussels in a renowned beach resort, and black olives often give way to green olives. To the north it happens very often see this pizza prepared with the addition of sausage cut into rings.

pizza capricious
The pizza capricious

The Pizza Capricciosa Original Recipe and preparation

Dough:

To prepare 4 balls of 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

If you are not experienced in the preparation of the dough and the subsequent leavening take a look at this my previous article that explains step by step the procedure.

After the rising phase, spianate the balls to obtain 4 discs of dough.

With a spoon and place the tomatoes on the pizza order, add the ham (not cubed) taking care to break the whole slices into many smaller pieces, the mushrooms, the slices of artichokes and 8-10 pitted black olives.

Ricoprite with mozzarella.

Bring your oven at a temperature of 200 degrees and bake the pizzas for 20 minutes or until the edge does not prove to be perfectly golden.

Useful devices: Use very little tomato sauce for the capricious. This is to prevent the ingredients "float" on the pizza, It is advisable to wait a few minutes when baked, before you place it in a serving dish and serve it to your guests. The olives used as an ingredient for your pizzas must be strictly pitted.

What ingredients you use to prepare your pizza capricious? Give your recipe in the space comments on this page.

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pizza capricious
Pizza capricious

If you want to deepen on wikipedia the topic of the traditional pizza toppings, click here.

pizza pepperoni

The Pepperoni Pizza Recipe and Preparation

La pizza pepperoni  or as would be called in many other parts of the world "pepperoni pizza"Is probably the most popular pizza in the world. Do Not, I did not commit any error in typing the double "P", you write just like that. Let's first take a look at dictionary: Pepperoni: seasoned pork and beef sausage, that is, a type of sausage with pork and beef seasoned. In English "pepper"Is the pepper or pepper, while peppers are peppers.

pizza pepperoni
Pepperoni

The word Pepperoni is used only for pizza: pepper because it contains pepper, It was later in Italianate pepperoni for Pepperoni pizza.

If you happened to have dinner at a pizza outside the borders Italian, This pizza was definitely in the menu, and maybe you have not ordered because associated with the peppers with a spelling mistake.

pizza pepperoni
Pepperoni pizza

The pizza pepperoni is exquisite, its taste is comparable to our pizza with spicy sausage sliced ​​into rounds over as topping.

pizza pepperoni
Pepperoni a rondelle per pizza

The major European manufacturers of this type of salami from fine diameter are Hungarians, which have in their culture the production of sausages with the mix of pork together with that of beef.

In the USA, in UK e in Australia, The pepperoni pizza is definitely among the most popular, preferred by children, adults and families.

The Pepperoni Pizza Recipe and Preparation

To prepare 4 pizzas to the plate with "pepperoni", follow the instructions of our classic dough for pizza you find in our previous article, by clicking here.

After lying i 4 discs of dough, add the tomato puree, mozzarella and sprinkle the surface with the pepperoni cut into thin slices.

Bring your oven at a temperature of 200 degrees and bake for 15 minutes or until the edge of the pizzas not prove to be perfectly golden.

pizza pepperoni
Pepperoni pizza

Have you ever tasted "pepperoni pizza" in your travels outside Italy? Do you like? Leave your comment on this page.

pizza vesuvio

Pizza Vesuvio The easy recipe to prepare it at home

One of the first pizza I've learned to do in my long career as a pizza maker was the Pizza Vesuvio. My Master Gennaro of clear Neapolitan origin, This pizza had included among the items on the menu of the pizzeria where I worked as an apprentice pizzaiolo.

vesuvio pizza recipe
The pizza vesuvio

Today Pizza Vesuvio is only present in the menu of some characteristic Neapolitan pizzeria, rarely has the opportunity to be able to order in many pizzerias in Italy.

What makes this a unique pizza, is the fact that encloses 2 pizza in a.

For half a calzone, and half a classic margherita. The part calzone is stuffed in the Neapolitan tradition with ricotta cheese, tomato and salami,  half "Daisy" with the classic combination of tomato and mozzarella.

pizza vesuvio
Prepare the pizza vesuvio

L’impasto:

These doses are for 4 pizzas to the plate.

Pizza Vesuvio The easy recipe to prepare it at home

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 300 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. Consider 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 done fermented dehydrated, leavening will take longer. Absolutely do not use the baking powder in sachets with or without vanillin..

 

If you are not expert with regard to the stage of dough and leavening, you will definitely be useful readingthis previous article.

 Preparation

Completed the leavening, roll out the dough so as to obtain 4 discs of dough.

Work in a bowl fresh ricotta with salami, cut into cubes, a pinch of salt and pepper, a few leaves of fresh basil and a tablespoon of tomato sauce to mix everything.

On one half of the disc of dough, add 2 tablespoons of the preparation with cottage cheese and salami, and close the half as you do with the calzone (see figure below).

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One of my pizza vesuvio

Season the remaining half with tomato and mozzarella, as you do to prepare for the daisy.

Preheat your oven 200 degrees and bake your pizzas for 15 minutes or until the edge prove to be perfectly golden.

Nothing easier. Excellent, crisp, tasty and nice to see.

You knew the pizza Vesuvio? Which uses ingredients to stuff your pizza? Leave your comment on this page!

If you do not know the Vesuvius, Have a look at Wikipedia.

pizza vesuvio
Pizza Vesuvio

The Delicious Pizza Carbonara Recipe and Preparation

The pizza carbonara originated from a popular dish of food culture Roman: the pasta carbonara. Use egg combined with the pizza is not nothing new, I remember very well, already at the beginning of the eighties, on the menus of all the pizza was this pizza "UFO"Also called"pizza wheel drive”. Its characteristic was to have an egg in the middle, which was cooked with the pizza in the oven, then all covered with abundant raw ham. Those were different times, UFO sightings were frequent and with his Star Trek Captain Kirk and his Vulcan friend depopulated on television.

pizza carbonara
The pizza carbonara

The pizza carbonara is made with the same ingredients of the pasta carbonara: eggs, bacon, cream and a pinch of pepper.

There are different ways of preparing a pizza carbonara, the egg that can be used raw on the pizza and then baked in the oven, or the use of a boiled egg sliced ​​on pizza, same pizza carbonara can be served with or without tomato.

pizza carbonara
Carbonara pizza with tomato

Hardly find in the "light" menu, because besides being rich and tasty, has many calories, comparable to a nice plate of spaghetti carbonara.

pizza carbonara
Pizza Carbonara with boiled egg sliced

Below is the list of ingredients to prepare at home 4 pizzas to the plate, or a beautiful pan of size 30 x 40 cm which are the standard sizes of trays for home furnaces.

The Delicious Pizza Carbonara Recipe and Preparation

Carbonara pizza dough for homemade

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 300 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. Consider 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 done fermented dehydrated, leavening take longer tempo.Non absolutely use the baking powder in sachets with or without vanillin..

If you are not expert with regard to the stage of dough and leavening, you will definitely be useful reading this article.

Preparation of pizza carbonara.

In a bowl, beat the eggs with the cream and a pinch of salt and pepper.

Fry in a pan without oil the bacon cut into strips.

After spread the dough on your pan, add the tomato, cover with a layer of mozzarella cubes, pour evenly over the egg mixture and cream. Add the strips of bacon (without oil).

pizza carbonara
Preparation of pizza carbonara

Bring your oven at a temperature of 200 degrees and bake your pizza for 15 minutes or until the edge prove to be perfectly golden.

Serve hot.

pizza carbonara
Pizza Carbonara

Like the pizza carbonara? How to prepare your? Leave us your recipe in the comments section at the bottom of this page.

What says wikipedia about Carbonara?