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 official website of the city of Philadelphia

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.

Pizza ham and .... , may seem incredible, but on five pizzas that are produced in Italy, three of them have the ham in the ingredients that are used. When we speak of ham we must make a distinction between the raw and the cooked. Of ham on pizza we dealt this in my previous article, Today we'll talk about ham on pizza. Like equally to adults and children, and is often combined with other ingredients, very popular is pizza ham and mushrooms, is present on the four seasons, the capricious, in his pants, combined with artichokes and I could continue this list indefinitely. The pizza is placed sliced, and it is always better to divide the slices into smaller pieces for a cosmetic issue but mostly because the ingredients completely covered by slices of cooked ham whole would not even cooking, producing a floating effect of the ingredients on the pizza.

There are many types of cooked ham, from the one that costs a few euro per kilo to finish in quality hams that cost tens of euro per kilo. I remind you that the pizza was born as a poor dish, then, always use a few ingredients, but always choose quality ones.

Dough for pizza with ham

In order to prepare 4 pizza ham prepared the following ingredients:

To do 4 balls of dough from 250 grams

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 1,2 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

In a bowl, pour the water and the yeast scioglieteci.

Add the extra virgin olive oil and sugar, then the flour. Begin to mix the ingredients and add salt. Knead the dough with your hands until a soft dough, elastic that comes off completely from your hands. After the mixing phase, dividetelo in 4 shares, formats 4 balls and place it in a container with a lid. Let stand for about an hour or until doubled in volume.

After the rising phase, roll out the balls with your fingertips, if you have no experience you can read our article that explains perfectly how to make the drafting of the balls of pizza.

After the drafting, add the tomatoes and slices of ham into small pieces. This is the time to add other ingredients to your liking, add the mozzarella.

Preheat your oven 200 degrees, bake your pizzas only when your oven is very hot. The cooking will take approximately 15 minutes, always depends on the type of oven you have at home. When the board will prove to be perfectly golden baked pizzas and serve hot.

If you like pizza with ham, let us know how to prepare, leave a comment on this page.

Do you know the difference between ham and cooked shoulder?Watch wikipedia.

The pizza queen is the queen of all the pizzas. An exquisite variation of the classic Neapolitan pizza margherita, was christened with this name in the distant 1890 the famous Neapolitan pizza maker Raffaele Esposito that contrary to what some think, was not the inventor of pizza, but simply what he named the pizza margherita in honor of Queen Margherita of Savoy. If you want to learn more about the history of the daisy, you can read this my previous post. Over the years the pizza Queen has undergone changes as compared to the classic margherita, were added to the artichokes and ham. Searching the Internet, you will find that the pizza is very popular Queen, in addition to, are lots of pizzerias in Italy calls Regina Margherita scattered in all provinces, even large distribution companies still produce frozen pizzas pizza queen distributed worldwide.

Regina Pizza Recipe and Preparation

To prepare 4 pizza regina:

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 bowl pour water(20 degrees) and scioglieteci yeast, sugar and oil. Add the flour and started to mix the ingredients. Add the salt and work the dough vigorously for 10 minutes until they turn out to be soft and elastic.

Divide the dough into 4 balls and let rest for leavening in a closed container with a lid or on the same level of work well covered with a damp cloth. After about an hour flattened balls to obtain 4 discs of dough by the diameter of 30 cm. Seasoned with tomato, artichokes into wedges and ham cubes. Add the mozzarella and bake in your oven preheated to 200 degrees. After 15 minutes check the doneness of pizzas, and baked only when the board will prove to be perfectly golden.

Add a few leaves of fresh basil and serve hot.

Advice: The success of the pizza at home is very dependent on cooking in the oven. And warm it very well before baking pizzas and never open the oven door to check for doneness.

How to prepare the pizza queen at home? Leave a comment on this page.

Want to know more about the queen Daisy? Click here and consultation wikipedia.