Monday, September 30, 2013

Pizza in Italy

 someone mentions Italy, pizza always appear in our mind. Pizza is the one of most representative and classic food in Italy, it attracts millions of people to taste it and spreads to different countries rapidly since it was invented.
  In general, pizza is a kind of over-baked and flat bread which is cooked with tomato sauce, cheese and other ingredients.
  There are three kinds of pizza generally:
   Neapolitan pizza
   Neapolitan pizza is made by Mozzarella cheese and San Marzano tomato(it is a special tomato which is grown from volcanic plains, so it has a strange shape. The dough consists of  wheat flour, natural Neapolitan yeast , salt and water, the another important point is under Neapolitan method, the dough must be made by hand( that means usage of machine is not allowed), this kind of pizza is crispest pizza in the world.








Lazio pizza
  Lazio comes from Rome, comparing with Neapolitan, the major characteristic is it always very thin and has a rectangle shape. Lazio has requirement for cooker: it must be baked in wooden ovens, so it has a special flavor. It always topped with tomato,  mozzarella, anchovies and oil.

           



Sicilian pizza
  It is obvious that this kind of pizza comes from Sicilian, it can be both rectangle and round, in general, it is similar to Neapolitan, so it can be seen as an variation of Neapolitan pizza.

           

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