It’s endless to talk about what pizza is like, since there are a million recipes for this dish, just like the secrets regarding making dough and filling for it. Combining different products, you can achieve a unique taste. However, there are certain secrets, observing which, you can cook a very tasty traditional Italian treat.
The history of the most popular pizza
"Margarita" is considered the simplest option, but because the recipe is not particularly difficult, it is not less tasty. The name of this dish was given in honor of Queen Margarita - it was to her that pizza maker R. Esposito dedicated pizza, which is similar in color to the flag of Italy. Mozzarella, basil, tomato - the white, green and red colors of these products very successfully reproduced the Italian tricolor. By the way, another interesting fact - this pizza includes absolutely the same ingredients as the famous Caprice salad. These two dishes are considered to be classic in traditional Italian cuisine.
Ingredients
So what is Margarita pizza? In a traditional embodiment, it includes the above three ingredients. However, some add cheese to this.
Pizza dough should be yeast - easy to make. Mix a teaspoon of yeast with 250 g of flour, add a little salt and pour 2/3 cup of warm water on top. Knead thoroughly by first adding oil to the mass and lubricating your hands with them so that the dough does not stick. Mash it thoroughly and leave to come up - it is best in a water bath. For the filling you need mozzarella (medium balls are suitable), ripe tomatoes, fragrant basil, sauce and hard cheese. Of course, not without the traditional ingredient - olive oil.
Recipe
So, the pan should be greased with oil. It is not necessary plentifully, one tablespoon is enough. The dough is rolled out and laid out on a baking sheet. Then the resulting layer is smeared with sauce. It is easy to cook it - add three cloves of garlic in tomato paste (you do not need to grind them), a pinch of Italian herbs and boil. It is necessary to keep the sauce on fire until it boils. So, ripe tomatoes sliced in circles, then mozzarella, are laid out on the dough, greased with the resulting tomato mass, then it also needs to be cut in this form. The layer thickness should be about 1 centimeter. Mozzarella is placed either on the tomatoes, or between them. A carefully washed basil is laid out on top. Next, pizza is placed in the oven, heated to 220 degrees, and wait 15 minutes. Then you need to grate hard cheese on a fine grater, sprinkle with it an almost ready dish, send it to bake again (for two minutes), and then you can serve it on the table.
Neapolitan pizza: how to cook the dough
Continuing to talk about what happens to pizza, do not forget about Neapolitan. It was in Naples in the 18th century that the world's first pizzeria was opened, where it was cooked in a huge stone oven, and this recipe appeared there. Of course, few people are cooking like this now, but if you strictly follow the recipe, you can make an amazing dish in a modern oven.
Different types of pizza differ in their culinary features. The dough is no exception. Of course, you can make a standard one, the recipe of which was described above, but different types of Italian pizza should differ from each other not only in filling, but also in dough. For the next recipe, you need wheat flour of the finest grinding (half a kilo), warm standing water (about 400 ml), olive oil, salt and even sugar, but a little - a teaspoon. Flour should be sieved in a convenient container, in the middle of the slide make a recess in which to put salt, sugar, yeast and butter. Gradually add warm water, mix all the ingredients inside the groove. When the yeast begins to dissolve, you can knead the mass. 15 minutes is enough to knead the perfect dough for Neapolitan pizza. Then it needs to be placed in a water bath and removed when it becomes twice as high.
Filling
If we talk about the types of Italian pizza, it should be noted that Neapolitan has the most original taste. Indeed, its composition includes seafood - mussels and anchovies, which give the dish a spicy taste. You will also need peeled tomatoes (4 pieces), hard cheese (suluguni, mozzarella), onions, olives and olive oil.
Cut the tomatoes into thick slices, fry the onion, rinse the seafood. Stretch a small piece of the dough with your fingers (traditional Neapolitan pizza never rolls with a rolling pin) so that the thickness of the edges is about 6 mm, and in the middle - half as much. Speaking about what types of pizza are and what kind of features are inherent in them, it should be noted that Neapolitan is cooked on a thin crust. By the way, before laying the filling, you need to grease the surface with oil and yolk. Usually everything is sprinkled with cheese on top, but in this case part of it is put on the dough, and only then - tomatoes, fried onions and seafood. But top should also be sprinkled with cheese. Almost done, it remains to put the pizza in the oven, heated to 200 degrees, for 20 minutes.
Dough for spicy dish "Four Cheeses"
What are some pizza toppings? Varied - mushroom, vegetable, meat ... But lovers of spicy and refined taste will like a dish whose filling consists only of cheese. For cooking, you need olive oil, which is infused with spices, and four types of cheese: dor blue, parmesan, fontina and mozzarella. You will also need Italian spices, which must contain bitter paprika, oregano and basil. The combination of herbs, spicy dor blue, fragrant fontina, creamy mozzarella and classic parmesan gives an amazing taste and smell. Speaking about what types of pizza are and which are most revered by Italians, this delicacy should be noted. Having tried it once, you fall in love with it forever.
The dough should be thin, yeast. The recipe is simple: in milk, dilute sugar (3 teaspoons), yeast and leave this mixture in a warm place. Then you need to beat two eggs, salt the mass and add 4 tablespoons of oil (vegetable). After 20 minutes, mix the milk and egg mixture, add the flour, mix thoroughly and leave in a warm place, after covering.
Filling and Cooking
After 40 minutes (this is enough for the dough to rise), it should be rolled out and seasoned with olive oil. Put cheese on top: dor blue with mozzarella and fontina are cut into cubes, and the parmesan must be grated. 15 minutes in the oven at a temperature of 200 degrees - and the spicy treat is ready. Listing what pizzas are, the names of these dishes, it should be noted that the name of this treat is fully consistent with the essence. "Four cheeses" reflect, in fact, the recipe of the dish, however, just adhering to each step, you can cook a real culinary masterpiece.
Original recipes
The question regarding what happens to pizza can be considered for a long time. Culinary variations can be very different - and everyone is amazing. Take, for example, a sweet filling. What kind of pizza is of this kind? Original, fragrant, mouth-watering! This is a great dessert that will delight all guests. The dough can be anything - fresh, yeast, puff, thin or thick. And the filling is even more diverse. In the dough for such a dish you need to add sugar, salt is not needed here. For flavor add chopped almonds or lemon zest. By the way, the first and the other will do, so you can combine it. And instead of water, it's better to take milk. The rest is the same. But in the case of the filling, there are some features. First, the base must be baked before spreading the ingredients on top. 12 minutes is enough. Then put on top the cream cheese, crushed with sugar and chopped nuts, pineapple, bananas or some other fruit and put for another 10 minutes. You can sprinkle chocolate on top, but only a couple of minutes before cooking. As you can see, there are a lot of recipes, and the choice is limited only by the imagination of the cook and his preferences.