Article updated on 24/12/2022. The Pizza Gorgonzola. Yesterday, in one of my usual trips,I was in a small town near Milan named after well-known: Gorgonzola. At the sight of the road sign indicating the name of the locality, I got the usual culinary inspiration. My first stop was at a small local company, producer of this typical cheese. I found a dealer disponibilissimo, that after making sure that I was a "Southerner",  with its perfect Milanese accent wanted to show me fiercely whole rigmarole production of their cheese.

The massive forms of gorgonzola they produce, weigh about 12 pounds each, produced exclusively with whole milk, "marbled" with streaks of green inside, which are the product of the said mold process marbling. Although it is a cheese DOP recognized by the European Community since 1996, there are two very different types:

DOLCE: that is creamy and soft and slightly spicy, characteristic flavor of gorgonzola we all know.

SPICY: With a flavor much more decided and stronger, hard cheese, more consistent and friable, very similar to blue cheese French.

This cheese, besides being eaten "smooth", can be spread on a slice of bread, can be consumed as do the British, smeared on "digestive biscuits" as a dessert after a meal, in combination with other ingredients in the preparation of sweets, in risotto, as a sauce for polenta, Gorgonzola is also the main ingredient in the creation of the cream with four cheese for pizza.

After completing the purchase of my precious sweet gorgonzola, upon my return home I could not resist and decided to get ready one of my favorite pizzas:

The Pizza Gorgonzola.

The dough for the preparation of this delicious pizza, is the same dough standards that we use for all other pizzas, available in my previous article which you will find by clicking on this link.

After the rising phase, roll out the balls of dough to obtain 4 disks diameter 30 centimeters.

Preparing Pizza Gorgonzola

To be able to fully enjoy all the scents and flavors of this delicious cheese, prepare this pizza on the basis of a daisy.

Pour the tomato on the disks of dough, add a generous layer of mozzarella and finally crumbled over the entire surface of the chunks of gorgonzola.

Bake in your oven preheated to 250 degrees your gorgonzola pizza that after about 10 minutes, when the board will be completely gilded will be ready to serve to your guests. Add a few leaves of fresh basil.

The right match for this cheese, is a good Red wine robust and full-bodied.

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If you want to know more about the gorgonzola cheese, you can consult the encyclopedia wikipedia.

The pizza tuna is present in all the menus of pizzerias in the world. Tuna is a food that keeps well in the classic packaging canned in oil and therefore is used frequently as an ingredient in a pizzeria for pizza either alone or combined with other ingredients, to surprise and satisfy the needs of all customers.

The pizza and tuna ....

Doing this work for many years, I happened to meet many customer requests, various pizzas with tuna combined with other ingredients, but there are some that make the perfect combinations for the palate, and which are more requests than other.

In supermarkets large or small, you will find different kinds of tuna packed, the natural, in seed oil, in olive oil. The same tuna inside the packages can be of different types, whole or crumbled to pieces. The best product to achieve a good pizza, is the tuna in olive oil and in pieces, that can crumble on pizza. Never forget that the pizza was born as "poor", then, few ingredients ... ..but good.

In this article I wanted to show you what are the most common approaches that are required in a pizzeria that you can do with tuna.

Pizza tuna and ....

1. Pizza with tuna and olives: The tuna pizza with black olives prepared with the base of a daisy to which is added the crumbled tuna and black olives before being baked.
2. Pizza tuna and onions: Combining the most popular by far, Both as a seasoning for a cake, both on a red pizza with tomato and mozzarella, Pizza with tuna and onion is the rustic Mediterranean for excellence.
3. Pizza tuna and tomatoes: Light and nutritious at the same time, is prepared on the basis of a focaccia, are added to the tuna in olive oil crumbled, cherry tomatoes cut clove seasoned with salt and rosemary, before being baked.
4. Pizza tuna and artichokes: Another perfect match and in great demand, think the same ingredients are also used to prepare one of the most popular sandwiches. Despite the version with tomato is very popular, is also delicious taste it only with mozzarella.
5. Pizza tuna and zucchini: Two delicate ingredients made for each other, make this one of the pizza Popular, not to cover the delicate flavor of the ingredients, This pizza is made without the tomato, but with a generous layer of mozzarella.
6. Corn and tuna: Pizza for refined palates, simply topped with mozzarella, sweet corn beans and pieces of tuna in olive oil crumbled before being put in the oven. When cooked, you add fresh basil leaves.
7. Gorgonzola and tuna: Everyone likes, The tuna combined with gorgonzola sweet or spicy it, make this pizza a delicacy on the palate of the most demanding customers.
8. Sicilian eggplant and tuna: The Sicilians have made a pizza of their tradition, The combination of the ingredients of the Sicilian pizza is unique: Tomato, mozzarella,crumbled tuna, eggplant sautéed, capers and black olives.
9. Tuna and arugula: Pizza with tuna and rocket began to appear on the menu of pizza only recently, but has already gained a wide range of admirers, Depending on the tastes of the customer can be prepared on the basis of a daisy or on the basis of a focaccia. Excellent!!!
10. Rustica with tuna and pickles: This delicious pizza rustica Mediterranean is the top of the stuffed pizzas, perfect match, and can be stored for a few days in the refrigerator without deterioration. The best pizza to be offered as an aperitif for your guests paired with a glass of robust red wine.

Do you have any other recipe of pizza to prepare your home with tuna? Leave a Comment.

If you want more information on tuna, you can consult the encyclopedia wikipedia

The pizza deviled is present in all menus of Italian pizzerias, in many places called "pizza-breathing" in other places "pepperoni pizza" or other fancy names, but what distinguishes this from other pizza is, as suggested by its name associated with the "devil" ... fire, then the spicy. The devil is a pizza margherita pizza with the addition of spicy salami slices on the surface,  slices of pepperoni are arranged above the mozzarella, then in baking release spicy oil on the surface of the pizza and the sausage is crisp. The pizza deviled is similar to pepperoni pizza, which is the world's most famous American pizza, already described in this article.

Pizza dough diavola

To prepare at home 4 pizzas to the plate, here are the ingredients for the dough:

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 in which prepare the dough, pour water not cold (20 degrees around) scioglieteci yeast, add flour, sugar and oil. Knead vigorously with your hands, and then add the salt. As described in this article, the salt should never be inserted in direct contact with the yeast. Mix until dough is compact, smooth and elastic that will not stick to your hands more. Divide the dough into 4 balls 250 grams and let rise in a container with a lid for now, or until its volume will not be doubled.

Drawing up of the balls for the pizza deviled:

Roll the balls of dough, (this well described in this article previous, you can do it with the help of a rolling pin if you are not experienced) and formed 4 discs of dough by the diameter of 28/30 cm.

Season with tomato, mozzarella and cover the entire surface of the pizza with spicy salami cut into thin slices.

Preheat your oven to good home 250 degrees and bake your pizzas. Cooking, employ about 15 minutes, check the doneness of the edge of the pizza, and when it is perfectly golden, your pizzas baked in a spicy. Add a few leaves of fresh basil and serve piping hot to your guests. Serve always the devil with a small bowl containing extra virgin olive oil with chili, finely chopped inside. Lovers of this pizza love the spicy!!

If you want to know more about the chili consulted wikipedia

In this article we will see how to make your home one of the most famous rustic pizzas. The pizza with potatoes.

If you want to prepare a drink or a quick snack, this pizza is the most suitable, everyone likes, adults and children love, and not run the risk of displeasing your guests. The best way to prepare this pizza is cooking it in a pan. In pizzeria in the preparation of the classic pizza to pot, pizza with potatoes is prepared with mozzarella, but if we are going to prepare it at home and give it a rustic look, it is advisable to prepare without using mozzarella or tomato. In this way, the pizza will retain an excellent appearance, though not be consumed immediately, in fact the pizza with potatoes is exceptionally good also heated in the oven the next day.

To give a spectacular agreeable to this pizza, we will have to cut the potatoes into thin slices, and soak them in water for a few minutes. Drain well on a towel trying to completely eliminate the residual water.

The pizza dough to prepare this rustic is the same that we use for all our recipes of pizza, and if you are not experts, I recommend you read the post "dough for homemade pizza"And carefully follow the doses and the advice suggested in the article.

Once the mixing phase, grease the pan with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and place the dough on the baking sheet for leavening, making sure to brush the dough with a little oil to avoid formation of a crust on the surface. After an hour the mixture will be leavened and can easily spread over the entire surface of the pan evenly.

After the step of drawing up, Take the potatoes previously prepared and place over the entire surface of the dough, evenly without leaving gaps.

The dressing of the pizza with potatoes

Add the salt regularly on the surface of the potatoes.

Freshly ground black pepper.

Rosemary, chopped.

Oregano

Garlic: The garlic flavor goes perfectly with potatoes, but we know that not everyone likes. My advice is to crush a few cloves of garlic with the palm of the hand without removing the skin of the garlic and add it to the pizza. You can easily remove it after cooking.

Add extra virgin olive oil.

Cooking pizza with potatoes.

Preheat your oven to the right temperature 200/250 degrees.

Bake the pizza with potatoes that will take depending on the type of oven you use about 15/20 minutes.

Remove from the oven when the edges of your pizza will be perfectly golden and cooked to perfection.

White or red that it is, the wine is most suited to taste this delicious pizza rustica.

How to prepare the pizza with potatoes at home? Give your recipe on this page in the comments section.

Want to learn more about potatoes? Take a look at wikipedia.

Who writes post handling food or recipes, should always be neutral as regards their food preferences, but alas when we get to pepperoni pizza can not resist .... It 's my favorite, certain ingredients can give special flavor to the pizzas, bacon, the speck, gorgonzola, anchovies, peppers.

For some, The pepperoni pizza is very digestible, but they are so good that sometimes you are willing to pay this price just to eat.

After devoting ample space to “Americana pizza pepperoni”, Today we see how to make a delicious pizza with peppers. In many pizzerias Italian peppers are combined with other ingredients for the topping pizza: Peppers and onion, peppers and tuna, peppers and zucchini, peppers and potatoes, combined with olives and anchovies, even with the onion and bacon.

What I want to present today, is the most classic recipes, simple but delicious, pizza peppers.

Recipe of pepperoni pizza

To prepare this recipe we will have to wash the peppers, remove the seeds inside with the white part, Chop into small pieces and put them in a pan with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil.

Add a handful of capers well washed and drained, season with salt and pepper and brown for about ten minutes.

Prepare the pizza dough as described in our previous article "dough for homemade pizza” .

Divide the dough into 4 balls and let rest for leavening in a container with a lid for an hour plentiful.

The drafting of the balls

For the drafting of the balls of pizza, we have ample space in this article, then, if you are not expert in doing this with your fingers, you can use a rolling pin to draft 4 discs of dough by the diameter of 30 cm.

Season the circles of dough with a generous layer of mozzarella and add the peppers prepared previously. Your pizza is ready to fire.

**This pizza is delicious even without mozzarella. In case you decide to prepare it without, suggest you add the rosemary before baking.

Preheat your oven to good home 200 degrees before baking your pizza peppers. On average, the pizzas to the dish in the oven at home takes about 15 minutes to cook, Keep an eye on the doneness of the edge of the pizza,  when you turn out to be perfectly golden churn and serve your pizzas.

How to prepare your home pizza peppers? Give your recipe in the comments on this page.

Read more on peppers, you can consult wikipedia.

The bacon on pizza is a combination used always, after the war, in complete poverty, the luckiest added a bit 'of bacon and onion to enrich this delicious pizza rustica, see article on cacciannanze.

Today pizza with bacon is proposed combined with many other ingredients, bacon and zucchini pizza, pizza bacon and mushrooms, with gorgonzola or with provolone. The pizza bacon and onions is definitely the pizza rustica Mediterranea most popular. To better suit the tastes of most customers, the classic white onion is often replaced with the red onion, that leaves no bad smell in the mouth.

Before starting with the preparation of this pizza, I would like to suggest a few tricks and tips for those who have little experience with the onions in the kitchen:

Onions

To slice the onion without "crying" is often enough to wet the knife blade under running water while slicing the onion. It is eaten raw, onions leave an unpleasant bad breath, but it will be enough to chew a clove to completely eliminate any residual odor. To eliminate the smell of onion residue on the hands, wash with soap Marseilles to which you add a teaspoon of coffee powder, and the same applies to remedy the garlic. To completely eliminate the smells of onion residue on dishes or platters, rub them with a carrot. To make it less pungent flavor of your onions, cut into slices and keep them immersed in cold water for a while ', taking care to squeeze them well before cooking. Another question that always leaves everyone with doubt is the following: But the sprouts are edible onions? Who knows how many times did you that onions previously purchased, staying long in pantry have sprouted, Do not throw away the sprouts, are very tasty and delicious, can replace the chives in your recipes or you can use them as decoration for your creations.

Now that you no longer afraid of the onion, we can go ahead with the preparation of our rustic "pizza bacon and onion".

Dough

Prepare the pizza dough according to the instructions of our post: Pizza dough.

Divide the dough into 4 balls and let rise for an hour in a container with lid.

After the rising phase, roll out the balls of dough in 4 diameter discs 28/30 cm.

Pour the onion on the disks of dough, add the bacon into thin slices, or if you prefer, diced. Season with salt and pepper, then add needles rosemary Fresh.

Preheat the oven to 200/250 degrees and bake. After ten minutes check the doneness of your pizzas, when the board will prove to be perfectly golden, baked and served piping hot.

If you want to prepare a drink for your guests, there is no better pizza to be served with a bacon and onion cut into squares.

How to prepare the pizza bacon and onions to your house? Leave a comment on this page.

Would you like to learn more about onions, visit this page alimentipedia.

The Pizza Calabrese is known throughout the world as "pepperoni”. This beautiful region offers many specialties, anyone who has had the opportunity to spend a holiday in Calabria will certainly have tasted some of the products that this region offers. Canned in oil, chiles, the brawn Calabrian version sweet or spicy, nduja famous spicy salami spreads, sausage, bacon, capicollo, the esplanade. Who does not know the onions Tropea, nougat of Bagnara Calabria or the typical cheeses Calabrian. I could go on for hours, but I risk bore. With the large amount of local products that are offered by Calabria, inevitably when we speak of the Calabrese pizza there can be no standard recipe for this pizza. In the United States and in much of the South America, when talking about "pizza Calabresa" means the spicy pizza, one made with the brawn Calabria. In many Italian pizzerias, Calabrese pizza is made with canned tomatoes, chopped, tuna in oil, anchovy fillets, black and green olives, pitted, capers and garlic. Anyhow, are many pizza makers that imaginatively add to these ingredients of variants like the eggplant in olive oil or red onions, they also typical of this region.

The Pizza Calabrese

We will prepare the classic pizza Calabrese, but I'll leave you the option of adding additional ingredients.

Ingredients for the topping:

Peeled tomatoes, chopped

Tuna in oil

Anchovy fillets chopped

Black and green olives, pitted

Capers

1 clove of garlic

Sale, pepper and extra virgin olive oil.

Prepare the dough for 4 Calabresi pizzas following the instructions by clicking this link. Divide the dough into 4 balls, cover with a cloth and let them rest for an hour leavening.

Meanwhile, prepare the sauce: In a pan fry let the garlic chopped, just golden brown, add the chopped tomatoes, season with salt and pepper and let cook for 10 minutes.

Roll out the 4 balls of dough to 4 diameter discs 30 centimeters.

Spread the tomato on the basics of pizza, add the chopped tuna, capers well washed, chopped anchovies finally olives. The original recipe of this pizza does not use mozzarella, as it is already rich and caloric, but if you want it ..... .

Heat very well your home oven to maximum temperature (200/250 degrees) then bake your pizzas. After 15 minutes check the doneness of pizzas, and when the board reaches the right gilding, you can crank out your pizzas. Serve hot.

How to prepare the Calabrese pizza at home? Give your recipe in the comments on this page.

If you want to learn more about Calabria can consult wikipedia

A delicious pizza, light, perfect for the spring season and beyond. The mix of its ingredients, mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, arugula, prosciutto and parmesan flakes, make this recipe, simple and quick to realize, a tasty pizza called pizza spring. For all those who want to try to prepare it at home, propose that this very simple recipe that involves cooking of a pizza with only mozzarella, then freshly baked, are added to all the other raw ingredients.

The doses for 4 pizza spring

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 1,2 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

If you have no experience in the preparation of the dough for pizza, you will want to read my post dough for homemade pizza.

Let rise the 4 balls made with the mixture for one hour.

Roll out the balls forming 4 discs of dough, add the mozzarella and bake in the oven which you have previously heated(okay) a 200 degrees. After about 15 minutes check the doneness of pizzas and only when the board will prove to be perfectly golden, baked your pizzas.

The pizzas are served hot, then quickly add the ham sliced, arugula, (making sure to break up the leaves with your fingers, this will make fragrant your pizza) the cherry tomatoes cut clove, season with salt and olive oil, Finally, add the Parmesan cheese flakes.

Tips: If you need to buy prosciutto, you'll need 4 whole slices per pizza dish, thinly sliced(600 grams).

Taste it accompanied with a good glass of red wine: Contrary to what many think, the beer is the best drink to accompany the pizza, have a different PH and this would make our digestion longer and more difficult. Try instead to enjoy a good glass of red, maybe the Rosso Piceno Superiore, pizza and wine itself PH, so easy digestion.

Article updated on 4/10/2022

La pizza Philadelphia. In the 80 -90 on TV you often saw an advertisement for a Japanese girl, guest of an Italian family, "Kaori" was his name, it always wrong to pronounce the name of this delicious product: The cheese Philadelphia. Produced by multinational Kraft, soon became famous all over the world. Philadelphia was baptized in honor of the US city famous for the production of quality foods.

The British used it to prepare the Cheesecake, the Spaniards adopted the name "queso Philadelphia" to mean any type of cream cheese, and as usual, the Italians have been using this cream cheese as an ingredient for pizza.

How good is this pizza

I remember with great pleasure of being one of the first pizza makers in those times to do experiments on the pizza with the Philadelphia, I added to the menu of the pizzeria I worked for there Philadelphia pizza which was made with this cheese spread with the addition of chopped tomatoes, crumbled tuna and fresh basil leaves.

Soon the cream cheese has found a place in almost every menu of pizza, finding interesting combinations that vary from region to region

It is often found in the northeastern regions paired with chicory, in Emilia served with the ham, I ate an excellent pizza in Calabria with Philadelphia, eggplant and salami, in the Capital I have often found pizza Philadelphia e nutella. In Liguria I ordered a pizza with Philadelphia zucchini and pine nuts and in Campania I tasted pizza with Philadelphia, shrimp and parsley.

Philadelphia pizza recipe tuna and tomatoes.

This pizza is prepared on the basis of a freshly baked focaccia. To prepare the cake, follow the instructions of our previous article: How to prepare a cake perfect.

Freshly baked cake, spread on the surface a generous layer of spreadable cheese, add the cherry tomatoes cut into wedges, crumbled tuna to pieces, finally seasoned with extra virgin olive oil, salt and fresh basil leaves.

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The Pizza Siciliana. In my business trips and leisure in the beautiful Sicily, I could not help but observe the different cultural traditions and the many culinary that this region offers us. Only to want to talk about pizza, you perceive that in every province of the island there is a local variant of this product. Visiting Palermo, you can not taste the "sfinciuni", the classic local focaccia topped with onion, cheese, tomato and bread crumbs.  In the province of Messina, in addition to the local focaccia topped with vegetables, cheese, tomato and anchovy, is in great demand even the "piduni" classic fried calzone or baked with a filling of vegetables. In Ragusa everywhere you go, you can taste the "casts". In the province of Catania, you can enjoy typical Sicilian pizza, a fried calzone stuffed with cheese, anchovies, mushrooms and other ingredients. In the province of Syracuse, is very popular the "pizzòlu" a stuffed pizza rustica.

In other regions of Italy, in each menu that respects, Sicilian pizza is offered with the typical ingredients of this region and its Mediterranean cuisine: Capers, black olives and anchovies, a mix of strong flavors but very tasty.

To prepare four delicious Sicilian pizza we will need:

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 1,2 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

Prepare the dough by mixing the ingredients well, if you are not experts can consult this my previous post that explains step by step how to prepare the pizza dough.

Once the mixing phase, dividetelo in 4 parts and put it in a container with a lid for leavening. The rising phase will take approximately one hour, or until the volume of the balls will be doubled.

The drafting of the balls of pizza. Roll the balls to get 4 discs of dough with your fingertips is not easy if you have no experience, then, rather than get a bad result paving the pizzas with your hands, I always recommend the use of a rolling pin to all those who attempt to prepare it at home.

The dressing: Sprinkle the discs of pasta with tomato sauce, short sale, the anchovies are already tasty. Add the anchovy fillets / anchovies breaking them with your fingers into smaller pieces, Olive down, Capers and a generous layer of mozzarella. To give originality to this delicious pizza, recommend to all foodies to add a sprinkling of cheese Sicilian.

Cooking: I never tire of repeating that to get a good result with your pizzas, you'll have to warm up well your home oven. Turn it up 15/20 minutes before, to the maximum temperature (200/250 degrees) before baking pizzas, and do not be curious, repeatedly opening the oven door to check the cooking, a heat loss during cooking will make you make a fool with your guests. In a hot oven pizza at the thin plate, employs about 15 minutes to cook, in any case, keep an eye on the edge of the pizza, and only when it turns out to be perfectly golden, baked pizzas Sicilian.

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Read more about Sicily can consult wikipedia.