What should be the pizza? Pizza by definition, must be round, delicious-baked, crispy and always beautiful. Pizza loves luxury and generosity. Only when it does not save, it fascinates and captivates.

Wonderful, literally melting in your mouth pizza - the result of strict adherence to the rules established manufacturing of pizza dough, sauce and toppings. Pizza - is rightfully one of the most popular foods in different countries and is the subject of manifestation of fiery imagination industrial manufacturers and, of course, pizza maker cooks.

Number pizza recipes it is not possible to count. In each country, the pizza is cooked in its own way, depending on their taste preferences and peculiarities of the national cuisine.

Tastes could not be discussed

In England right now invent a completely new kind of pizza - exciting, with all kinds of aphrodisiacs. In Italy, the architect proposed to create a comfortable beer pizza - in the form of a cone, and sell it to the conical kiosks. The Japanese have expressed their own originality by inventing altogether unusual pizza - "okonomiyaki", and fried with a special sauce. At home pizza hot dogs and deep lush with plenty of toppings.

In India, the cook pizza with spicy curry and chicken. In Russia, the pizza is cooked very generous - of the available products using the yeast, and flaky unleavened dough, vegetable, not olive oil, lots of tomatoes, peppers, sausage, pickles and hard cheese.

French pizzas very similar to Italian, using a variety of their cheeses - Parmesan, Roquefort, Gouda, Fontana, kid. How to find in France, thanks to this, they are much tastier than the traditional pizza - Italian.

Cognac in Cognac, a real pizza - Naples

Yet the universal favorite of all possible kinds of pizza is a classic Neapolitan pizza. It is prepared strictly according to the classic recipe and always made by hand, baked in a wood oven. Pizzas with various technological improvements, according to the Neapolitans, it's not a pizza.

Italian pizza is certainly a thin pizza base and its inherent four main components that determine its unique taste: this sauce, flour and mozzarella cheese.

For pizza Pizza: features Italian cuisine   is preparing a special sauce made from fresh tomatoes, with the addition of the taste - basil, oregano, marjoram, black pepper, garlic and salt. Pizza dough is made from fine flour and original yeast. This dough is elastic so that during the formation of tortillas twisting and tossing it does not break, dutifully taking those dimensions that are going to make a master. And Mozzarella - it can be said, another national pride of the Italians - a young, very soft cheese made from buffalo milk. Sour milk in warm water breaks down into fibers, which in hot water fold into balls mozzarella cheese. On the palate, it is ideally combined with olive oil Olive oil: useful properties   and tomatoes.

"Classics of the genre" considered focaccia - is the foundation crust, just tortilla, and a closed pizza - "calzone". The stuffing, baked between two tortillas longer retains the flavor and stays warm.

Among the classic Neapolitan pizzas are pizza and sweet. A favorite dessert Italian pizza - pizza coffee got its birth at the International Pizza Championship in 1984. Dough preparing for her on classic technology, but with the addition of coffee and powdered sugar. Small pieces formed Krusty with small bumpers, which are then placed on the filling of sheep ricotta cheese, ground coffee, sugar and baked. Filling «Caffe pizza» can also be fruit, jam, cheese.

The national dish of Brazil

Paradoxically, but on a different continent, in Brazil, it is considered the national dish pizza. The people of this country eat pizza than in Italy and any other country. It even has approved Pizza Day holiday, which is marked by really large scale. At the Festival of pizza in Sao Paulo gathers the great sea of ​​people. Brazilians pizza borrowed from the Italians who immigrated to South America, and a variety of recipes features their national cuisine - particularly maize and green peas ...

The idea of ​​Italian pizza Pizza in Italy   found its use in many countries, national traits acquired other composition ingredients and methods of manufacture. Its history of this over the years become only richer, but as they say "the more things change, the more things stay the old way": tradition, the subtleties of cooking Italian pizza remain firm.

Tatiana Ovcharov

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