The secret to cooking Italy’s most famous dish and pizza sauce
Connoisseurs of culinary art argue that the proper preparation of pizza sauces is as important as everyone's favorite Italian dish, which has gained worldwide popularity. Pizza is a tortilla that can be coated with various ingredients: pieces of meat and fish, vegetables and fruits, capers and sauces. But the unchanging and indispensable ingredient of pizza is cheese, most often mozzarella or parmesan.
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How did pizza appear
Something like pizza appeared in ancient times, when the Greeks and Romans served food on slices of bread to the table. Some argue that it was the theme of the times that Caesar pizza sauce was. At the beginning of the 16th century, tomatoes were brought to Europe for the first time, and in Naples it was thought up to roll out the dough into a thin cake and cover with a filling of cheese and a special tomato pizza sauce. Such food fell in love with Italian commoners, and the people who cooked it were called pizza. The plain court also liked the royal court: the wife of King of Naples Ferdinand IV, the Italian Queen Margarita of Savoy. There is a legend that it was in her honor that the most famous and simple tomato sauce for pizza recipe “Margarita” was named. On the American continent, namely in Chicago, pizza fell in the second half of the XIX century. In the middle of the 20th century, frozen options familiar to the modern consumer began to appear, as well as exotic condiments for them, including mutti pizza sauces.
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Features of pizza in different countries
In almost every country in the world you can find many recipes for Italian pizza sauce. Moreover, the real chef of the Italian restaurant will argue that it is his dish that is the most proper and fully seasoned in the traditions of this Mediterranean country.Although in fact, the ideas about this dish in different countries are radically different from each other.
In the USA, the recipes for dough and cheese pizza sauce are influenced by immigrants from Italy and Greece. Any shapes and any fillings are in fashion here: from very thin to thick dough, from classic products to bacon and barbecue chicken, which are venerated mainly in American cuisine, and traditional olive oil is not always added to the dough. Although they often use the traditional method of making shrimp pizza sauce. American pizza uses flour with a high gluten content, which allows the dough to not break when stretched. The recipe also differs depending on the geography of the country.
- New York pizza - almost classic, is made on a thin and flexible cake.
- New Haven - “white” pizza (prepared without tomato, but with garlic pizza sauce) is common in Connecticut.
- Greek incorporates spices (oregano), feta cheese, olives. She is even served at the buffet table.
- Chicago pizza - a thick cake with a reordered ingredients. Delicious pizza sauces, recipes, photos in Chicago are distinguished by extraordinary special colorfulness and completely unlike others.
- Hawaiian contains bacon, pineapple and cheese.
- According to the California recipe, chicken, peanut sauce, beans, barbecue sauce are sure to be added.
In Australia, pizza also has a special national flavor. A recipe with cheese, tomatoes, bacon and eggs is popular. Often, the restaurant offers a marine option with pizza sauce with seafood or an exotic dish that uses kangaroo meat, crocodile, emu ostrich.
In South America, adhere to the basic Italian postulates for the preparation of this dish, it is worth noting that it is extremely common in Brazil.
Surprisingly, pizza is also not uncommon in India. It is much sharper in taste than its counterparts in other countries, and it is cooked mainly with poultry meat. Moreover, the recipe for white pizza sauce will be no less spicy and spicy in taste in this eastern country.
In Russia, the delicacy was recognized in the 1990s of the XX century, since then a lot of establishments have opened on its territory that prepare both Italian and pizza options and exotic ones. But in everyday life, Russian pizza is more like a shang with meat, tomatoes, cheese and cucumbers sprinkled with herbs. Most pizza sauces made from mayonnaise and tomato ketchup.
Most Popular Pizza Sauces
To diversify the classic options of the dish, you can change the sauces, leaving the main ingredients unchanged. But how to make pizza sauces? The simplest is a recipe for mayonnaise-based creamy pizza sauce. It is necessary to mix 2-3 tablespoons of cream with 150 g of mayonnaise, salt, a little pepper, lemon juice. You can add tomato sauce or pasta to it, while getting a pink pizza sauce.
The tomato sauce itself can be made more piquant: in 200 g of tomato paste add a few cloves of garlic, 1 onion, 40 ml of vegetable oil, red pepper, coriander, suneli hops. Classic herbs such as basil and oregano can be dispensed with. With garlic pizza sauce at home, which goes well with seafood, you don’t have to bother at all. It is enough to mix 150 ml of olive oil, 3 cloves of garlic, a quarter of a teaspoon of salt.
The easiest pizza recipe
Pizza prepared in the restaurant looks elegant and appetizing, but not every day the opportunity to visit it is provided. Moreover, tomato, garlic and sour cream pizza sauces and mayonnaise can be prepared by yourself and enjoy a delicious dish at home. The most famous fast pizza recipe belongs to the American chef Jamie Oliver. He mixes the ingredients in a ratio of 3: 3: 1, namely:
- 3 tablespoons of flour;
- the same amount of mayonnaise;
- egg;
- slaked soda with vinegar on the tip of a knife.
The oven warms up to 235 degrees, where pizza is baked for 10 minutes without topping, and then the same amount with it.
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