Pizza Recipes

A Pizza is an oven-baked, flat, usually circular bread covered with tomato sauce and cheese with optional toppings, or a savory pie with similar ingredients.

List of Pizza Recipes

Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza
BLT Chicken Salad
Cacciatore French Bread Pizza
Cheeseburger Pizza
Chicken Parmigiana Pizza
Dijon Chicken & Almond Pizza
Ham & Pineapple Pizza with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto
Hawaiian Pizza
Individual Provolone-Chicken Pizza
Mākena Ham and Pineapple Tortilla Pizza
Rest in Pizza
Skillet Pan Pizza

The cheese is usually mozzarella (the traditional Neapolitan pizza uses buffalo mozzarella or fior di latte) or sometimes a mixture of several cheeses such as parmesan, romano and ricotta. Various other toppings may be added, most typically:

herbs and seasonings such as basil, oregano, and garlic
vegetables such as bell peppers, asparagus, eggplant, broccoli, spinach, olives, onions, and artichoke hearts
meat or fish products such as sausage, (especially pepperoni or salami), ham, bacon, ground beef, anchovies, chicken, and shrimp
Other common toppings include mushroom

The crust is traditionally plain, but may also be seasoned with butter, garlic, or herbs, or stuffed with cheese. In some pizza recipes the tomato sauce is omitted (termed "white pizza"), or replaced with another sauce (usually garlic butter but can be sauces made with spinach or onions). Pizza is normally eaten hot (typically at lunch or dinner, however try it cold for breakfast), but leftovers are often eaten cold for breakfast or as a snack.

The etymology of the word pizza is disputed. The form pizza first appears in Naples, Italy in the 16th century. Piza or pissa is late Vulgar Latin (9th century) flat bread, and apparently came to mean a flat bread with a cheese topping by the 14th century in some Italian dialects. Pizzo, which means point in Italian, may have been an influence. Many languages around the Mediterranean have similar words meaning flat bread or unleavened bread, see pita. The Italian word for a person with talent for making pizza is pizzaiolo.

A restaurant that serves pizza is called a pizzeria (from Italian); the phrase "pizza parlor" is also used in the United States. Pizza can also be purchased in grocery stores or supermarkets (usually, but not always, frozen); in many countries, pizza can also be ordered by telephone (or, increasingly, via the Web) to be delivered, hot and ready to eat, to almost any address within range of the restaurant. The first pizzeria established in the United States was Lombardi's in New York.

Pizza, a local food item originated from a small region of Italy, has become popular in the whole world, even more than the hamburger, and is now a symbol of cultural globalization.

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