Pizza - a thin tortilla covered with tomato sauce and sprinkled with grated cheese. All other components of it vary depending on the recipe, the preferences of the cook or the products that are at hand. This is one of the most popular dishes in the world. Famous cakes are known everywhere: pizza with salami, Pepperoni, Margarita, Four Seasons, etc.
Italians consider pizza their national dish, in many cities in Italy there are secrets to making a hearty cake. Each of them is proud of their unique recipe.
A little entertaining story
Pizza (contrary to the desire of Italians) first appeared in Ancient Greece, where baked flat cakes were poured with olive oil and sprinkled with herbs. This delicious tradition was adopted by the ancient Romans. Cakes with pieces of meat, olives, cheese, greens were included in the mandatory diet of the Roman legionnaires.
In the 1st century BC, Mark Apicius (Roman) described in his book the first recipes of ancient pizza: pieces of chicken, mint, nuts, garlic, cheese were placed on the dough in different combinations and proportions, all this was poured with olive oil.
Tomatoes appeared in Italy in 1522, and since then they have been preparing classic pizza - the standard for cuisines around the world.
In the 17th century, special people appeared in Italy preparing pizza for peasants. Legend has it that in 1772, King Ferdinand I incognito in Naples tried pizza and wanted to introduce this dish in the royal menu. The attempt was unsuccessful: his wife found the dish for commoners unsuitable for royalty.
The next king - Ferdinand II - was more inventive: on his orders, pizza was secretly baked and served on the royal table on the day of the celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Queen Margarita of Savoy. The pizza recipe for royalty has since been called Margarita.
In the 19th century, pizza began to be baked in America, where it gained wide popularity due to the expansion of the delivery service and the production of convenience foods.
In modern Italy, more than two thousand ways of making pizza are used.
One of them is salami pizza, the recipe for which is widespread throughout the world.
Classic recipe
Salami is a traditional Italian baked sausage with large fat, which has always been a delicacy. She is well known outside of Italy.
In Russia, it is customary to call smoked sausage with small fat “salami”.
Salami pizza, the photo of which is presented below, has become a classic in pizzerias around the world.
Consider the classic way of making pizza. According to this recipe, anyone can treat themselves and their loved ones with their own culinary masterpiece.
Ingredients Required:
- wheat flour (premium) - 0.5 kg;
- yeast - 5 grams;
- water - one glass;
- hard cheese (ideally Parmesan) - 50 grams;
- Mozzarella cheese - 50 grams;
- salami (boiled-smoked) - 350 or 400 grams;
- olive oil - two tablespoons;
- tomatoes - three pieces;
- basil - to taste;
- pepper to taste.
Dissolve the yeast in a small amount of water.
Mix flour with yeast and water, add olive oil, knead the dough.
Divide the dough into four parts, roll each part into a ball. Leave on for thirty minutes.
Scald the tomatoes with boiling water, peel them, finely chop them, put them in a heated pan with a small amount of olive oil, fry them. Pepper the resulting tomato sauce, salt, add basil.
Cut the sausage into thin, neat slices. Grate the cheese coarsely.
Roll out the dough into cakes with a thickness of not more than six or seven millimeters.
Put bake cakes until half ready.
Remove the cakes from the oven, grease the top layer with sauce, sprinkle with grated cheese, spread the sausage on top.
Put the pizza in the oven, bake until the cakes are ready for about 3 or 5 minutes.
Pizza with salami, the recipe with the photo of which is presented above, takes forty minutes to prepare.
Sausage and Pepper Pizza
The taste of pizza, of course, depends on the quality of the cake and sauce. It is not always possible to knead a good dough at home and cook the sauce. In this case, you can buy ready-made frozen or fresh pizza dough and regular tomato sauce.
So, for pizza you need:
- dough (finished) - 0.5 kilograms;
- Mozzarella cheese - 0.2 kilograms;
- sausage (salami) - 0.2 kilograms;
- sweet pepper - 1 piece;
- olives - ten pieces;
- tomato sauce - three or four tablespoons.
Roll out the dough into a thin layer.
Cut the sausage into neat circles.
Wash pepper, peel, cut into circles.
Grate the cheese coarsely.
Grease the dough with tomato sauce, sprinkle with cheese, spread salami, olives, pepper.
Bake in a preheated oven for fifteen to twenty minutes until cooked.
Fast pizza
An original instant salami pizza recipe is offered. Required:
- salami - 200 grams;
- cheese (hard) - 100 grams;
- tomato - 1 piece;
- mayonnaise - to taste;
- ketchup - to taste;
- salt to taste;
- chicken eggs - 2 pieces;
- wheat flour - 10 tablespoons without a hill;
- sour cream - 4 tablespoons;
- mayonnaise - 5 tablespoons.
Thinly sausage, grate cheese on a coarse grater.
Cut the tomato into circles.
Beat eggs in a bowl. Mix mayonnaise and sour cream, add to eggs. Pour flour into the mixture, gently stirring, spoon.
Add flour gradually to monitor the density of the dough. It should turn out liquid, like on pancakes, without lumps.
Grease a baking dish with oil, pour a thin layer of dough into it, grease with ketchup and mayonnaise on top, spread out the sausage and tomatoes, sprinkle with cheese.
Bake pizza at a temperature of 200 degrees for about 10 or 15 minutes (until cooked).
Conclusion
Pizza is a dish that leaves few indifferent. It is not difficult to cook it at home. Guided by the simple recipes given above, changing pizza toppings to your taste, cook with love and fiction. Let the dish be different from the Italian brand, but it will be your own culinary masterpiece, which your loved ones will appreciate.
Enjoy your meal!