Recipe Pizza Philadelphia Cherry Tomatoes Tuna

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.