chichi stuffed pizza

Chichi Stuffing Stuffed Pizza Delicious

The Pizza Chichì stuffing. In our tour along the Italian regions to discover ancient recipes and food traditions, Today we will stop ... .a few kilometers from my house, the ancient village of Offida in the province of Ascoli Piceno.

This beautiful village, It boasts a unique tradition of its kind, a type of stuffed pizza by the strange name "Chichì Stuffing". It is a dialect word meaning a Piece of Pie, formerly made with bread dough, stuffed with common ingredients, tuna, anchovies and capers chopped peppers.

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Chichì stuffed Offida

If you happen to visit Offida, you can find and taste the Chichì filling in all the local bakeries.

From 1968 to date, every first Sunday of August, It takes place the festival of filling Chichì, and you can watch a performance of indescribable smells along the ancient streets of the village.

Dough Chichi Stuffing Stuffed Pizza Delicious

700 grams of flour zero, 300 grams of water, 10 grams of yeast, extra virgin olive oil, a spoonful of malt and a pinch of salt.

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Chichì stuffed baked

Filling of Chichi Stuffing Stuffed Pizza Delicious

200 grams of peppers in oil, 5 anchovy fillets, 10 capers, 150 grams of green olives, 150 grams of artichokes, 200 grams of tuna.

Preparation

Knead the ingredients in a large container, let rise for about an hour, divide the dough into 2 pieces. Roll out a part on the bottom of a baking dish, spalmateci the filling ingredients finely chopped with a mixer and cover with the remaining dough, making sure to seal the 2 parts of dough between them to prevent spillage of the ingredients during the cooking.

Practice some hole on the surface to avoid the bulge during cooking, oil, salt and bake in your oven pre-heated to above 200 degrees for 15/20 minutes, until the surface will be perfectly golden.

Both delicious freshly baked hot or cold as an aperitif.

Accompany with a great local red Piceno.

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Pizza stuffing Chichì

Did you know the recipe for stuffed Chichì? Leave your comment on this page.

If you want to learn more about Offida, click here.

Pizza Mozzarella Stracchino Pesto Genovese

Recipe pizza with mozzarella cheese and pesto Genovese.

Liguria, land of sun and gastronomic traditions. In this beautiful region, si produce il pesto, condiment that has far exceeded the boundaries of our country.

Even the pesto has been borrowed by many pizzerias and combined with other ingredients has enjoyed unexpected success. Among the most common pairings today we're going to prepare pizza Genovese which has among its ingredients pesto, cheese and mozzarella cheese.

Genoese pesto pizza mozzarella stracchino
Genoese pesto pizza mozzarella soft cheese and basil

This pizza very delicate, but at the same time tasty can be realized on a red base with tomato, or white without tomato.

Genovese pesto pizza dough mozzarella soft cheese

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

Knead vigorously the ingredients in a container to form a soft and elastic dough.

Divide the dough into 4 balls and let rest for rising in a tightly covered container for about an hour, or until the volume will not be doubled.

Genoese pesto pizza mozzarella stracchino
Genovese pesto pizza with mozzarella soft cheese and arugula

Preparing pizza mozzarella soft cheese pesto Genovese

Once the rising phase, roll out the balls of dough to form 4 diameter discs 30 centimeters.

Add the tomato (if you want it red)

Add a generous layer of mozzarella, with a spoon, coarsely spread the pesto over the mozzarella, Finally add the stracchino. A few leaves of fresh basil and your pizzas are ready to fire.

Turn on your oven and take it to the maximum temperature 200/250 degrees.

Bake your pizzas for 10 minutes until the board will prove to be perfectly golden.

Remove from the oven and serve hot.

Combine this delicious pizza with a dry white wine!

Been to other pizza recipes to make with pesto? Leave your suggestions in the comments on this page.

If you want to know more about liguria, home of pesto, you can consult wikipedia.

Genoese pesto pizza mozzarella stracchino
Classic pizza Genovese
Traditional Pugliese Pizza Recipe

Traditional Pugliese Pizza Recipe

In my culinary journey, always looking for new flavors and different combinations, we will stop in Puglia, Italian region hot and strong flavors, and we will speak of Pugliese Pizza Recipe Traditional. It is a classic pizza, proposed by many pizzerias in Italy and around the world, This type of pizza is made with three simple ingredients: The tomato, mozzarella and red onion in this region is very popular.

Traditional Pugliese Pizza Recipe
Apulian mozzarella with tomato and onion

A rustic dish which is really hard to resist, simple seasonings that give a taste very delicious.

This pizza there are a multitude of different versions, They are many pizza makers who add provolone cheese or sliced, or sample version of this pizza with the addition of grated pecorino cheese. I love the Apulian with oregano added before cooking in oven, and tasty is the version with olives, some capers and anchovy fillet.

Traditional Pugliese Pizza Recipe
Pugliese pizza with fresh basil

Pizza Dough Recipe Traditional Pugliese

We prepare the dough for pizza in the traditional way. All instructions can be found by clicking on our article "dough for homemade pizza”.

After completing the mixing phase, dividiamolo in 4 balls and let's leave aside for the rise for a time.

Traditional Pugliese Pizza Recipe
Pizza Puglia classic

Preparation Pizza Recipe Traditional Pugliese

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

Add the tomato, cover with a generous layer of mozzarella and then add the chopped onion into thin slices.

Bake in an oven pre-heated to 200/250 degrees for 15 minutes, until the edge will prove to be perfectly golden.

Remove from the oven and serve hot.

Traditional Pugliese Pizza Recipe
Pugliese with oregano

A good match to taste with this pizza tasty and full of flavor, It is definitely a good glass of red wine.

Do you know other recipes for pizza Pugliese? Leave your suggestion in the comments on this page.

Familiar with the region Puglia? If you do not know you can find more information on wikipedia.

Traditional Pugliese Pizza Recipe
Pugliese with black olives
pizza arugula cherry tomatoes crescenza

Pizza Cheese, Tomatoes Rocket Light

After the big binge due to holidays just passed, really felt the need for a light meal, peering between my old recipes, I found this delightful suggestion: The Pizza Cheese, Tomatoes Rocket Light.

We all know the growth, this lovely and light cream cheese. What you may not know is that the growth is a particular type of "soft cheese" fresh, without the classic cheese maturing of soft cheese 20 the 30 days. When unpacking presents skinless, soft, creamy and spreadable, good reading labels, you will find that you can purchase the version containing less fat, made with low-fat milk. Usually the growth has a short maturity, only a few days.

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Pizza with tomatoes and arugula growth

Bake the cheese in the oven would be like committing a crime, the goodness of this cheese is in the serum contained therein, and during the cooking phase would be lost, so the only way to use it in order to appreciate all of its features is to spread it on the pizza once baked.

Pizza dough Tomato Cheese, Arugula Light

For those who have no experience with the pizza dough, I suggest you click this link which refers to the article "dough for homemade pizza"Which explains in detail all the phases to be followed with doses and ingredients to use.

Preparation Tomato Arugula Pizza Cheese, Light

Roll out the balls leavened dough with your hands or with the aid of a rolling pin, formed of discs of dough diameter 30 centimeters.

Cut the tomatoes into wedges, toss with extra virgin olive oil, sale, oregano and a few leaves of fresh basil, pour on the disks of dough and bake in the oven pre-heated to 200/250 degrees.

After about 10 minutes of cooking, when the board will be perfectly golden, baked your pizzas.

With the help of a spoon spread a generous layer of fresh growth on pizzas, add the arugula and dressed with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and a pinch of salt.

Serve hot.

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Pizza with tomatoes and fresh basil growth

This particular type of pizza is absolutely light combined with a light white wine, It does not recommend a red or any type of beer.

You knew the pizza tomatoes rocket growth? Leave your comment or your own recipe on this page, It will be of great help to our readers.

Would you like to learn more about the cheese and on growth? Ser and, you can consult wikipedia.

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.

pizza Mediterranean
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.

pizza Mediterranean
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.

pizza parmigiana

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.

pizza parmigiana
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.

pizza parmigiana
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.

pizza parmigiana
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.

pizza parmigiana
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.

onion pizza
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

onion pizza
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.

pizza recipe rocket stracchino tomatoes
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

pizza recipe rocket stracchino tomatoes
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.

pizza recipe rocket stracchino tomatoes
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.

pizza recipe rocket stracchino tomatoes
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.

chicory
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.

chicory
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.

chicory
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

chicory
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.

hell pizza
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!!

hell pizza
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.

Executive chef pizza