Pizza Rossini A Symphony Of Flavours. All those who have visited Pesaro and stopped for dinner at any pizzeria, or only for a short stop for a snack at any bar, They will could not help but notice a very characteristic local specialties: Rossini's Pizza.

In Pesaro e..non only, Rossini pizza is very popular, it can be found in all of the pizza menu and it is also possible to consume as “street food” Grabbing a takeaway piece, to be consumed along the way without interrupting the walk. As it happens in Genoa focaccia Genovese, Also here the Rossini pizza is sometimes consumed at breakfast in the morning with young people who come from a long night at the disco or simply by those who prefer the savory breakfast in the classic cappuccino and cornetto.

Pizza Rossini A Symphony Of Flavours

Why pizza Rossini? Gioacchino Rossini (link) Italian composer 1792/1868 Born in Pesaro, He is known for being one of the greatest opera composers of music history (The Barber of Seville, The Italian Girl in Algiers, The Thieving Magpie, Cinderella, Guglielmo Tell) He was crazy about hard-boiled eggs and mayonnaise.

The characteristic of Rossini's Pizza provides for the preparation of a simple pizza margherita with the addition of boiled eggs into thin slices and mayonnaise as topping.

Like other pizzas they have eggs among its ingredients, see the pizza “Pizza Bismark” or our “Pizza Carbonara“, Pizza “Rossini” is high-calorie.

You may interest you, here is a table of calories contained:

Ingred: Calories x 100g - Quantity (in gr) - Total calories
Pasta 290 180 522
Tomato 18                          200                        36
Mozzarella 250 100 250,9
Egg 156                           50                        78
Mayonnaise 688 45 309,6

Total 1200 kcal

Until a few years ago I thought it was possible to eat only in Pesaro, but I'm really surprised, When, on my last trip to Brazil, in a remote location in the northeast near the Amazon forest in a local pizzeria Brazilian, It was regularly served to some customers, daisy with sliced ​​hard-boiled egg and mayonnaise, indeed there is a light version where you use cheese “catupiry” in place of mayonnaise.

Pizza Rossini A Symphony Of Flavours

Preparation of Rossini's Pizza

Prepare the pizza dough following the advice of our recipe you will find by clicking here.

Let rise the mixture for the required time.

Roll out the balls of dough to form discs with a diameter of 30 centimeters, add the tomato, mozzarella cheese and bake in the oven at 300 degrees for a few minutes, until the edge is golden at the right point.

Remove from the oven, add a few leaves of fresh basil, a boiled egg cut into thin slices and mayonnaise.

I managed to whet your appetite?

I hope so, but be aware that there's more. From the marriage of Rossini pizza with sausage, It is born “reddish”, but that's another story and we'll talk later, perhaps with the next recipe.

A special greeting goes to all Pesaresi following day my recipes of pizza.

PS: Surely there will be some face disgusted by pairing pizza and mayonnaise, but I recommend to everyone absolutely to taste it. Mayonnaise combined with a pizza with vegetables, or to a pizza with ham is a sheer delight.

The Pizza Sausage and Friarielli is one of the classic dishes of the Neapolitan cuisine.

The broccoli are very similar to turnip greens, green leafy vegetables that grow on the slopes of Vesuvio. Always paired with sausage, whether it is cooked on the grill that crumbled and cooked in a pan, It is one of the must-try dishes when you visit the city of Naples. Like all other good things of this geographic area, quickly it ended up being adopted by all the pizza as an exquisite and original condiment to add as a topping on pizza.

Today, with the global market you can find almost friarelli worldwide, gia pronti, packaged in glass jars distributed by major manufacturers.

Of course you prepare this pizza with fresh friarelli redone in a pan with the sausage crumbled good is another matter.

Today we will see together how to prepare this simple recipe without making mistakes.

Pizza Sausage and Friarielli

Prepare the dough for the pizza following the instructions detailed in our previous post: Pizza dough

After completing the mixing phase, formed into balls weighing about 250/270 grams. Place them in a container with a lid and let stand in a warm place in your home. The leavening will take about a couple of hours, It will depend greatly on the temperature of the room where leavening takes place. If you wish to learn more about the leavening, I suggest you read This Post dedicated to it.

Meanwhile we expect, We prepare the sauce.

After blanched for 10 minutes the friarielli, in a large pot, pour a little olive oil extra virgin olive oil and a clove of garlic. Pour the friarelli and saute slowly. Halfway through cooking, add the crumbled sausage and crushed red pepper and finish cooking.

Pizza Sausage and Friarielli

The classic recipe of the sausage and broccoli pizza does not use tomato.

After the dough has come to fruition, roll out the pizzas, add a generous layer of mozzarella and top with the mozzarella delicious broccoli with previously remade sausage in skillet, Finally add the diced provolone.

Bake in your oven at 300 degrees pizzas that with a few minutes of cooking should be ready. The cooking time can vary from oven to oven, sfornatele only when the edge of your pizza will be perfectly golden.

Wait a few minutes before cutting your pizza and serve accompanied by a good red wine. Why not beer? Those who follow my posts already know the answer: The wine has the same pH of our stomach, then digestion will be faster, the beer has a different PH in addition to being cold, then we will have the drawback of a difficult and longer digestion.

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