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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Hell Pizza Dough

Preparation of the dough for pizza.

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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Focaccia Genovese. Liguria is a region rich in traditions and culture. The first time I visited the Liguria (many years ago) I was enchanted by the typical characteristic of those places. One morning I was when I went to breakfast at the bar, I saw the gentlemen at the table intent on enjoying their cappuccino, until nothing strange, but after a moment I realized that I consumed not the cappuccino with a common brioches, but with one cake. As a good pizza maker, I could not help but order the same breakfast. It is from that morning I met the focaccia Genovese, it was love at first sight!

Photo taken from: http://www.lericettediteresa.it/

It is called by all the Genoese "fugassa"And has become a garrison"slow food”.

Often used in place of bread, is high not less than 2 cm, usually consumes already with breakfast, as a partition in the morning or as an aperitif, accompanied by a glass of white wine, the famous "gianchetto”.

The thing that sets it apart from most other types of flat bread that is before the last rising, is coated with an emulsion consisting of extra virgin olive oil, water and salt.

Focaccia Genovese Recipe

La Focaccia Genovese needs at least 6 hours of leavening seen that for its dough we will use a flour reinforced, then knead in the morning and then fire it in the evening. Given its softness, this pizza is preserved perfectly without losing its characteristics for a few days.

To prepare a baking sheet 30 x 40 centimeters which are the standard sizes of the home oven, you'll need:

600  grams of flour type 00 Reinforced (in 280-300)

400 Ml of warm water

10 grams of yeast

30 Ml extra virgin olive oil

20 grams of salt

2 tablespoons sugar

Preparation of focaccia Genovese

In a container knead the ingredients adding salt only at the end of the dough. The dough having a high percentage of water will prove to be sticky. Do not worry, must be so.

Sprinkle a baking pizza with extra virgin olive oil, pour the mixture in the center of the pan and grease it well with oil to prevent during the leavening to form a crust.

Let stand for 4 hours in a warm place in the house.

Spent the first rising phase, roll out the dough with your fingers on the entire surface of the pan and let rest again for the second leavening phase for other 2 hours about.

He spent two hours, take your pizza yeast and practice of the holes with your fingers along the surface. Take a glass, fill half water and half of extra virgin olive oil, emulsionatelo well and spray it over the entire surface of the pizza. Add salt as seasoning and bake in the oven pre-heated to 200 degrees for 15/20 minutes.

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The Focaccia Pugliese. Puglia is a beautiful region, rich in history, culture and traditions. At his kitchen belong many recipes, with a characteristic that distinguishes them from all other regions, different recipes in relation to the seasons. During the spring and summer, are preferred vegetables and fish, while in the other seasons predominate legumes, the homemade pasta topped with different sauces, alone or combined with vegetables and fish.

Who knows the Puglia, surely knows the "orecchiette with ragu of horse meat", or the "orecchiette with turnip greens", the "Chicory with mashed beans", all recipes closely related to Mediterranean cuisine, cavatelli with mussels, or baked rice, Bari.

The recipe that we will discuss today is the famous "focaccia Puglia"

This product, is marketed throughout the peninsula, it can be found in most supermarkets. It is a thick focaccia, the dough is made with flour, water, sale, oil, yeast and potatoes. The sauce is made with cherry tomatoes, olives and oregano.

Ingredients of the cake Puglia

To prepare a good focaccia Puglia and cook in your oven at home you will need:

500 grams of flour

Cherry tomatoes

2 medium potatoes

Extra virgin olive oil

10 grams of yeast

Oregano, sale wholesale.

Preparation of the Apulian focaccia

Boil the potatoes and peel them. Dissolve the yeast in a glass of warm water (20 degrees around) In a container, pour a little 'flour, schiacciateci inside the potatoes and add the yeast. Stir with a fork the mixture with flour and baking potatoes. Add a little 'salt and started to knead aggiungento as the other flour.

When the dough no longer requires flour, casks una palla, Cover the container with a cloth and let rise for 2 hours.

Preheat your oven 240 degrees.

Grease a baking pan with extra virgin olive oil and stendeteci the dough.

Season the pizza with cherry tomatoes, cut in half, green and black olives, oregano, oil and salt. The cooking will take approximately 30 minutes, controlled edge, when it will be perfectly golden sfornatela.

Serve piping hot.

Focaccia Pugliese you can eat accompanied by mozzarella burrata or stuffed with mortadella. And 'perfect if served in place of bread.

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