focaccia from Puglia

La Focaccia Pugliese Recipe Mediterranean

The Focaccia Pugliese. Puglia is a beautiful region, rich in history, culture and traditions. At his kitchen belong many recipes, with a characteristic that distinguishes them from all other regions, different recipes in relation to the seasons. During the spring and summer, are preferred vegetables and fish, while in the other seasons predominate legumes, the homemade pasta topped with different sauces, alone or combined with vegetables and fish.

focaccia from Puglia
Focaccia Pugliese

Who knows the Puglia, surely knows the "orecchiette with ragu of horse meat", or the "orecchiette with turnip greens", the "Chicory with mashed beans", all recipes closely related to Mediterranean cuisine, cavatelli with mussels, or baked rice, Bari.

The recipe that we will discuss today is the famous "focaccia Puglia"

focaccia from Puglia
Focaccia Pugliese

This product, is marketed throughout the peninsula, it can be found in most supermarkets. It is a thick focaccia, the dough is made with flour, water, sale, oil, yeast and potatoes. The sauce is made with cherry tomatoes, olives and oregano.

Ingredients of the cake Puglia

To prepare a good focaccia Puglia and cook in your oven at home you will need:

500 grams of flour

Cherry tomatoes

2 medium potatoes

Extra virgin olive oil

10 grams of yeast

Oregano, sale wholesale.

Preparation of the Apulian focaccia

Boil the potatoes and peel them. Dissolve the yeast in a glass of warm water (20 degrees around) In a container, pour a little 'flour, schiacciateci inside the potatoes and add the yeast. Stir with a fork the mixture with flour and baking potatoes. Add a little 'salt and started to knead aggiungento as the other flour.

When the dough no longer requires flour, casks una palla, Cover the container with a cloth and let rise for 2 hours.

Preheat your oven 240 degrees.

Grease a baking pan with extra virgin olive oil and stendeteci the dough.

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Preparation of the Apulian focaccia

Season the pizza with cherry tomatoes, cut in half, green and black olives, oregano, oil and salt. The cooking will take approximately 30 minutes, controlled edge, when it will be perfectly golden sfornatela.

Serve piping hot.

focaccia from Puglia
Focaccia Pugliese

Focaccia Pugliese you can eat accompanied by mozzarella burrata or stuffed with mortadella. And 'perfect if served in place of bread.

How do you prepare the cake Puglia at home? What is your recipe? Leave a comment on this page.

Puglia on wikipedia.

focaccia from Puglia
Focaccia Pugliese
gorgonzola pizza

The Recipe Pizza Gorgonzola

Article updated on 24/12/2022. The Pizza Gorgonzola. Yesterday, in one of my usual trips,I was in a small town near Milan named after well-known: Gorgonzola. At the sight of the road sign indicating the name of the locality, I got the usual culinary inspiration. My first stop was at a small local company, producer of this typical cheese. I found a dealer disponibilissimo, that after making sure that I was a "Southerner",  with its perfect Milanese accent wanted to show me fiercely whole rigmarole production of their cheese.

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A pizza goronzola

The massive forms of gorgonzola they produce, weigh about 12 pounds each, produced exclusively with whole milk, "marbled" with streaks of green inside, which are the product of the said mold process marbling. Although it is a cheese DOP recognized by the European Community since 1996, there are two very different types:

DOLCE: that is creamy and soft and slightly spicy, characteristic flavor of gorgonzola we all know.

SPICY: With a flavor much more decided and stronger, hard cheese, more consistent and friable, very similar to blue cheese French.

gorgonzola pizza
Gorgonzola pizza without tomato

This cheese, besides being eaten "smooth", can be spread on a slice of bread, can be consumed as do the British, smeared on "digestive biscuits" as a dessert after a meal, in combination with other ingredients in the preparation of sweets, in risotto, as a sauce for polenta, Gorgonzola is also the main ingredient in the creation of the cream with four cheese for pizza.

After completing the purchase of my precious sweet gorgonzola, upon my return home I could not resist and decided to get ready one of my favorite pizzas:

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Pizza with Gorgonzola

The Pizza Gorgonzola.

The dough for the preparation of this delicious pizza, is the same dough standards that we use for all other pizzas, available in my previous article which you will find by clicking on this link.

After the rising phase, roll out the balls of dough to obtain 4 disks diameter 30 centimeters.

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Pizza with Gorgonzola

Preparing Pizza Gorgonzola

To be able to fully enjoy all the scents and flavors of this delicious cheese, prepare this pizza on the basis of a daisy.

Pour the tomato on the disks of dough, add a generous layer of mozzarella and finally crumbled over the entire surface of the chunks of gorgonzola.

Bake in your oven preheated to 250 degrees your gorgonzola pizza that after about 10 minutes, when the board will be completely gilded will be ready to serve to your guests. Add a few leaves of fresh basil.

The right match for this cheese, is a good Red wine robust and full-bodied.

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Pizza with Gorgonzola

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If you want to know more about the gorgonzola cheese, you can consult the encyclopedia wikipedia.

Pizza Nutella and philadelphia

Pizza Nutella and Philadelphia Fabulous Dessert

If you are always looking for new ideas for delicious surprise your dinner guests, or are looking for new pizzas to be added to the menu of your pizzeria, here is the Nutella pizza and Philadelphia.

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Pizza Nutella and philadelphia with cocoa and icing sugar

I have not yet happened to a client who said "no" to this incredible marriage of delicious flavors, children simply adore, not to mention the adults who go absolutely crazy!

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Pizza Nutella and philadelphia with crushed biscuits

It is very easy to make a pizza at home, even for those who are beginners, a few simple ingredients that make this pizza the "number one" among the dessert pizzas to offer your guests.

The timing of the preparation of the pizza nutella and Philadelphia are very low and you can prepare it in advance as it should be eaten cold (not in the fridge).

Pizza Nutella and philadelphia
Pizza with Nutella and bananas in philadelphia fettee chopped almonds

Pizza Nutella and Philadelphia: The Preparation

Pizza dough

Recipe homemade pizza
Ingredients Note
Flour500 grams DO NOT use flour with baking powder already mixed in, or mixtures of meals. If you want to eat your pizza tonight for dinner, used a normal flour type "0", if it is produced from some local mill even better.
Water250 grams Your tap water is not cold, around 20 degrees.
Extra virgin olive oil1-2 spoons It is not of fundamental importance, but a few tablespoons of oil will improve the gluten of your pizza.
Sale5-10 grams (1-2 teaspoons) Shortly sale, and never in direct contact with the yeast. To avoid making mistakes, add it to your mixture near the end.
Fresh yeast2-3 grams It's not a typo, fresh yeast 2 the 3 grams. Considers that a cube of yeast bought at the supermarket weighs 25 grams, BUY therefore only a few crumbs. The granular yeast is fine but being dehydrated ferments, leavening take longer tempo.Non absolutely use the baking powder in sachets with or without vanillin..

If you have no experience in the preparation of the dough for pizza and rising, I suggest you read this my previous article.

Divide the dough into 4 balls and let them rest for an hour the rising phase in a container with lid.

After the rising phase flattened balls pizza to obtain 4 discs of dough by the diameter of 30 centimeters.

Season the circles of dough with salt, a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and rosemary that will be removed after cooking.

Bake in your oven preheated to 250 degrees for 10 minutes, when the board will be perfectly golden, baked buns and let them cool by removing the rosemary.

Pizza Nutella and Philadelphia: Preparation of the ingredients

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Pour into a container Nutella and philadelphia

In a bowl, pour the Philadelphia cheese and Nutella, mix well and spread the cream on your pizza focaccia.

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Stir Nutella and philadelphia
Pizza Nutella and philadelphia
Spread the cream on the cake

To make elegant presentation of Pizza Nutella and Philadelphia, sprinkle with cocoa powder and powdered sugar. If it is to your liking, you can add a sprinkling of chopped almonds. In the dessert pizzas, you can use a sprig of fresh mint in place of fresh basil that is commonly used in the presentation of the pizzas.

Pizza Nutella and philadelphia
Pizza Nutella and philadelphia

Serve the pizza dessert accompanied by a glass of prosecco!

Pizza Nutella and philadelphia
Pizza Nutella and philadelphia

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The nutella its wikipedia

pizza tuna

10 Ways to Prepare the Pizza Tonno

The pizza tuna is present in all the menus of pizzerias in the world. Tuna is a food that keeps well in the classic packaging canned in oil and therefore is used frequently as an ingredient in a pizzeria for pizza either alone or combined with other ingredients, to surprise and satisfy the needs of all customers.

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Pizza with tuna with tomato, mozzarella and olives

The pizza and tuna ....

Doing this work for many years, I happened to meet many customer requests, various pizzas with tuna combined with other ingredients, but there are some that make the perfect combinations for the palate, and which are more requests than other.

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Slice of pizza with cherry tomatoes and tuna

In supermarkets large or small, you will find different kinds of tuna packed, the natural, in seed oil, in olive oil. The same tuna inside the packages can be of different types, whole or crumbled to pieces. The best product to achieve a good pizza, is the tuna in olive oil and in pieces, that can crumble on pizza. Never forget that the pizza was born as "poor", then, few ingredients ... ..but good.

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Pizza tomato and tuna

In this article I wanted to show you what are the most common approaches that are required in a pizzeria that you can do with tuna.

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Margherita pizza with tuna and green olives

Pizza tuna and ....

  1. Pizza with tuna and olives: The tuna pizza with black olives prepared with the base of a daisy to which is added the crumbled tuna and black olives before being baked.
  2. Pizza tuna and onions: Combining the most popular by far, Both as a seasoning for a cake, both on a red pizza with tomato and mozzarella, Pizza with tuna and onion is the rustic Mediterranean for excellence.
  3. Pizza tuna and tomatoes: Light and nutritious at the same time, is prepared on the basis of a focaccia, are added to the tuna in olive oil crumbled, cherry tomatoes cut clove seasoned with salt and rosemary, before being baked.
  4. Pizza tuna and artichokes: Another perfect match and in great demand, think the same ingredients are also used to prepare one of the most popular sandwiches. Despite the version with tomato is very popular, is also delicious taste it only with mozzarella.
  5. Pizza tuna and zucchini: Two delicate ingredients made for each other, make this one of the pizza Popular, not to cover the delicate flavor of the ingredients, This pizza is made without the tomato, but with a generous layer of mozzarella.
  6. Corn and tuna: Pizza for refined palates, simply topped with mozzarella, sweet corn beans and pieces of tuna in olive oil crumbled before being put in the oven. When cooked, you add fresh basil leaves.
  7. Gorgonzola and tuna: Everyone likes, The tuna combined with gorgonzola sweet or spicy it, make this pizza a delicacy on the palate of the most demanding customers.
  8. Sicilian eggplant and tuna: The Sicilians have made a pizza of their tradition, The combination of the ingredients of the Sicilian pizza is unique: Tomato, mozzarella,crumbled tuna, eggplant sautéed, capers and black olives.
  9. Tuna and arugula: Pizza with tuna and rocket began to appear on the menu of pizza only recently, but has already gained a wide range of admirers, Depending on the tastes of the customer can be prepared on the basis of a daisy or on the basis of a focaccia. Excellent!!!
  10. Rustica with tuna and pickles: This delicious pizza rustica Mediterranean is the top of the stuffed pizzas, perfect match, and can be stored for a few days in the refrigerator without deterioration. The best pizza to be offered as an aperitif for your guests paired with a glass of robust red wine.
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Rustic pizza with tuna and pickles

Do you have any other recipe of pizza to prepare your home with tuna? Leave a Comment.

If you want more information on tuna, you can consult the encyclopedia wikipedia

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking. Mallow is a very common plant in the whole Mediterranean area and submontane. You can find it in uncultivated grasslands in the ruins of old abandoned houses and along the country roads.

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking
Mallow plant

It was one of the first plants that I have learned to recognize, and with great pleasure I remember my childhood, at the age of 7-8 years my grandmother asked me to go and pick mallow to make a decoction to feed the pigs, remember that put on the fire this big pot and threw us into the mauve I had collected, brought to a boil and then was fed to pigs with bran. The grandmother was not aware of the active technical, but as the tradition that had been handed down from generation to generation knew that was good and disinfected. Internet did not exist yet, and the phone and the encyclopedia paper came many years later.

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking
Flowering plant mallow

Today everything is easier, mauve and just type "submit", and is pssibile know everything about this plant, shame that many people do not know at all this beautiful plant with 1000 beneficial properties.

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking
Mallow plant

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking

Properties mallow

It is a herbaceous plant, can reach one meter in height, the stem is covered with hair. The leaves are scattered and petiolate, of different shapes, the flowers are gathered in bundles of the leaf axils, pedunculated with a corolla with five petals pinkish or rosy-purple striae with more charges.

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking
Plant wild mallow

For use in the kitchen or herbal gather leaves and flowers. The leaves are left to dry in the shade then preserved in paper envelopes, the flowers are preserved in glass jars away from direct light.

It is rich in mucilage, contains potassium, calcium oxalate, pectin and vitamine.

Leaves and mauve flowers have the same properties and home treatments can be used separately or blended. Property: lassativa, antiflogistica,emollient, bechica, OFTALMICA.

Preparations mallow attenuate the state of inflammation of the mouth and throat, are expectorants in case of bronchitis and phlegm, soothe inflammation, regulate the intestines and it soothe the pains. They are suitable for the delicate organism of children and the elderly.

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking
The plant of the mallow

The Malva in the kitchen

Very famous since the time of the Greeks and Romans mallow has maintained its reputation until today. You can eat it raw in salads or mixed with other vegetables. It is really outstanding in soups, risottos and pasta sauce with its slightly sweet flavor. The flowers can be used to soften the dishes, as being edible leaves.

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking
Gnocchi with mallow

In the kitchen, you can add it to your creations by chopping the leaves and flowers and adding it with the onion, parsley garlic celery and carrots.

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking
Penne with wild mallow

Here are some recipes that you can carry with mauve:

Rice soup and mauve, broth with herbs, broth with mallow, spaghetti with herbs, Gnocchi with mallow, fettuccine with herbs, soup mallow meadows, soup and mauve daisies.

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking
Delicious risotto with mallow

The pizza is delicious mallow, should be treated as a simple vegetable, blanched and rebuilt a few minutes in the pan along with garlic, Tomato, mozzarella and mauve, A delicious pizza with the flavors of the past.

Mallow Guide Collection and Use in Cooking
An omelet with leaves and mauve flowers

If you prepare the ice for an upcoming party at home, I suggest you put a flower mallow in each ice cube. The result will be very nice to see.

 

PS: The news published here simply for informational purposes, do not want to lead you to self-diagnosis or self-treatment, for health problems is always advisable to consult a doctor.

To learn more about the mallow, you can consult wikipedia

If you already use the mauve in the kitchen, post your recipe in the comments.

How to Make Oil Spicy House

How do oil Spicy homemade with fresh chilli

If you love spicy oil, have lunch and dine with the bottle of chilli oil at the table next to you, if you are always the first to ask for it when you dine in the restaurant or pizzeria, if you love pasta arrabiata .... this is the one for you!!! How to prepare your home the delicious Mediterranean recipe spicy oil.

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Spicy oil

If you like spicy food like I love, and add the spicy pizza on, in the first courses, anywhere in the kitchen, you'll have to necessarily try to prepare your homemade spicy oil. As everyone knows, the chili is not suitable for certain diets, for those suffering from heartburn or for those suffering from certain health disorders, but is packed with different properties.

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Italian chili

The fresh chili is rich in vitamin C, very beneficial for the body, especially if you do not observe a balanced diet and not to take fruit and vegetables in abundance, very suitable for smokers, Vitamin C contained in it strengthens the immune system and protects against infections. It 'an antioxidant and many industry experts report it as an anti-cancer food. All these beneficial properties are due to a substance contained in it, called "capsaicin".

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Preparation spicy oil

Let's see how to properly prepare the spicy oil at home.

Advice: When handling the fresh chili is always advisable to use gloves, or wash hands immediately after use.

Ingredients for a liter of spicy oil

100 grams of fresh chiles Italian

1 liter extra virgin olive oil

A clove of garlic and rosemary (at your leisure)

We prepare the recipe to make the spicy oil

To avoid the occurrence of any bacteria that could ruin your spicy oil is good to dry the peppers before using them. Let a few days in the sun, put them in the oven or microwave, on a radiator etc..

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Preparation of chili

After being dried in, rinse well under cold running water and dry well with a cloth. Eliminate the stem and chop very finely on the chopping board. Place the chopped chili with all the seeds in a bottle or in a glass jar with lid, cover with extra virgin olive oil and if it is to your liking, add the garlic and rosemary, finely chopped.

Close the container tightly and store it for three weeks in a dark place of your home. Depending on the amount of oil added to the final result will be more or less spicy.

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Spicy oil

How to prepare your spicy oil? Give your recipe in the comments on this page.

If you want to know the best chili, you can take a look at wikipedia.

Flour Water Salt pizza dough

7 Things You Need To Know When Prepare Pizza

Local Insider

The answers to frequently asked questions about water salt flour pizza dough

What is the difference between the semolina and flour? What should be the temperature of the water for the pizza dough? What is the difference between the flour type 0, the semolina flour and the type 00? These are the questions that I get asked frequently by readers of the site ...

What is the difference between the bran and flour?

The flour is the product obtained from the milling of wheat. Is used for a lot bakery: bread, cookies, cakes, buns, panettone and similar. The flour is produced by grinding the wheat and we can easily distinguish it from flour (white and impalpable to the touch) for its characteristic straw color and increased grain size. The main use of the semolina is the production of pasta. For some types of bread and for the fresh pasta that require a finer particle size, you use the semolina.

What does the name "flour 0" and "00 flour"

The difference between the two types of flour is in the percentage content of ash, that is the residue that remains burning the flour 550 degrees. With this operation determine various types of flour: Type 00 with lower ash, the type 0, type 1 and type 2 with an ash content higher. This classification, drift gives a lege 2001, example: flour type 0 must have a maximum ash content of 0,65. Contrary to what everyone believes, flour 00 is not the best, but depends on the quality of the grain which is produced, and the amount and quality of gluten (protein) that it contains. The greater the nutrients contained in the flour and organoleptic, and the greater the residual ash. Here's why the flour type 00 is not the best, it does not contain the noble parts and nutritionally rich wheat grain, such as bran, the aleurone and parts of germ.

What is the strength of the flour?

The strength of the flour is the ability to absorb water during the mixing phase in order to form the gluten and thus maintain the carbon dioxide that is formed during the leavening. A strong flour produces a dough aciutto, elastic that does not stick to hands and can withstand long rising. The dough prepared with these flours give bulky products are characterized by a very large bubbles developed.

Which flour to use for pizza, which for cakes and pasta which?

The best flour to use for sweets is the type 0, and in particular we have to choose a meal with the most appropriate strength expressed by a number preceded by the letter "w". The pastry requires a w 140-180, cakes w 220-280, leavened rich as the cake w 360-400. Pizza flour ideal is to use a type 0 good quality with at least one w 280, possibly with the addition of durum wheat semolina. For fresh pasta is good to use a flour type 00 while for doughs for the fillings is preferable to use a type flour 00 with good strength w 250.280.

Which temperature must have water to the pizza dough?

To obtain a correct leavening, the final mixture before being rested for leavening, must have a temperature of 23-25 degrees, then the water to be used will be cooler in summer and warmer in winter. Measure the temperature of the dough and choose accordingly. Practical help on choosing the temperature of the water can come with reading of this article: The rule of 55.

What is the difference between the flour and the traditional stone-ground?

Stone-grinding occurs very slowly, crushing all the layers of the grain of rano that will not overheat and impregnates the flour with the oil of wheat germ, the best parts of the grain are preserved and give the pizza and bread to the full flavor of the bread once, further the slow grinding stone preserves all the nutritional quality of food.

How much salt we add in the dough of bread and pizza?

Normally you add the 2 to the 2,5 % of salt on flour weight.

You have other questions to be added? Leave them in the comments on this page, we will reply immediately.

If you want to know more about the flour, consult the online encyclopedia wikipedia by clicking here.

The Perfect Recipe Pizza Diavola

The pizza deviled is present in all menus of Italian pizzerias, in many places called "pizza-breathing" in other places "pepperoni pizza" or other fancy names, but what distinguishes this from other pizza is, as suggested by its name associated with the "devil" ... fire, then the spicy. The devil is a pizza margherita pizza with the addition of spicy salami slices on the surface,  slices of pepperoni are arranged above the mozzarella, then in baking release spicy oil on the surface of the pizza and the sausage is crisp. The pizza deviled is similar to pepperoni pizza, which is the world's most famous American pizza, already described in this article.

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The pizza deviled

Pizza dough diavola

To prepare at home 4 pizzas to the plate, here are the ingredients for the dough:

Flour type "0" 625 grams

Water 375 grams

Sale 15 grams

Yeast 1,2 grams

Sugar 10 grams

Oil 2-3 spoons

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Devilled pizza with black olives

In a container in which prepare the dough, pour water not cold (20 degrees around) scioglieteci yeast, add flour, sugar and oil. Knead vigorously with your hands, and then add the salt. As described in this article, the salt should never be inserted in direct contact with the yeast. Mix until dough is compact, smooth and elastic that will not stick to your hands more. Divide the dough into 4 balls 250 grams and let rise in a container with a lid for now, or until its volume will not be doubled.

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Pizza devilled

Drawing up of the balls for the pizza deviled:

Roll the balls of dough, (this well described in this article previous, you can do it with the help of a rolling pin if you are not experienced) and formed 4 discs of dough by the diameter of 28/30 cm.

Season with tomato, mozzarella and cover the entire surface of the pizza with spicy salami cut into thin slices.

pizza diavola
Pizza diavola

Preheat your oven to good home 250 degrees and bake your pizzas. Cooking, employ about 15 minutes, check the doneness of the edge of the pizza, and when it is perfectly golden, your pizzas baked in a spicy. Add a few leaves of fresh basil and serve piping hot to your guests. Serve always the devil with a small bowl containing extra virgin olive oil with chili, finely chopped inside. Lovers of this pizza love the spicy!!

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Pizza devilled

If you want to know more about the chili consulted wikipedia

Pizza with Potatoes Recipe and Preparation

In this article we will see how to make your home one of the most famous rustic pizzas. The pizza with potatoes.

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Pizza with potatoes

If you want to prepare a drink or a quick snack, this pizza is the most suitable, everyone likes, adults and children love, and not run the risk of displeasing your guests. The best way to prepare this pizza is cooking it in a pan. In pizzeria in the preparation of the classic pizza to pot, pizza with potatoes is prepared with mozzarella, but if we are going to prepare it at home and give it a rustic look, it is advisable to prepare without using mozzarella or tomato. In this way, the pizza will retain an excellent appearance, though not be consumed immediately, in fact the pizza with potatoes is exceptionally good also heated in the oven the next day.

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Rustic pizza with potatoes

To give a spectacular agreeable to this pizza, we will have to cut the potatoes into thin slices, and soak them in water for a few minutes. Drain well on a towel trying to completely eliminate the residual water.

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Pizza dish with potatoes and sausage

The pizza dough to prepare this rustic is the same that we use for all our recipes of pizza, and if you are not experts, I recommend you read the post "dough for homemade pizza"And carefully follow the doses and the advice suggested in the article.

Once the mixing phase, grease the pan with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil and place the dough on the baking sheet for leavening, making sure to brush the dough with a little oil to avoid formation of a crust on the surface. After an hour the mixture will be leavened and can easily spread over the entire surface of the pan evenly.

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Rustic pizza with potatoes and sausage

After the step of drawing up, Take the potatoes previously prepared and place over the entire surface of the dough, evenly without leaving gaps.

The dressing of the pizza with potatoes

Add the salt regularly on the surface of the potatoes.

Freshly ground black pepper.

Rosemary, chopped.

Oregano

Garlic: The garlic flavor goes perfectly with potatoes, but we know that not everyone likes. My advice is to crush a few cloves of garlic with the palm of the hand without removing the skin of the garlic and add it to the pizza. You can easily remove it after cooking.

Add extra virgin olive oil.

Cooking pizza with potatoes.

Preheat your oven to the right temperature 200/250 degrees.

Bake the pizza with potatoes that will take depending on the type of oven you use about 15/20 minutes.

Remove from the oven when the edges of your pizza will be perfectly golden and cooked to perfection.

White or red that it is, the wine is most suited to taste this delicious pizza rustica.

pizza with potatoes
Pizza with potatoes

How to prepare the pizza with potatoes at home? Give your recipe on this page in the comments section.

Want to learn more about potatoes? Take a look at wikipedia.

dandelion wild radish

The Dandelion Radicchio Wild Delicious

After devoting ample space to wild chicory in the previous article, Today we will talk about another type of radicchio: The Dandelion, wild radish edible by 1000 beneficial properties.

Dandelion wild radish
Dandelion wild radish

If looking at the flower might have doubts in recognizing this plant, just look at the next picture to understand with certainty what plant we're talking about.

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head of the Dandelion

The Dandelion (Scientific name Taraxacum officinale) is widespread in the Mediterranean, Also commonly called Dandelion or Dandelion. It is easily recognized for its flowers intense yellow color, that are closed at sunset and reopen at sunrise, At the end of the flowering form a globe feathery white-silver has numerous achenes, is here comes the name of head.

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Dandelion and wild radish

It grows everywhere, the gutter, in fallow fields, in the vineyards and along the paths.

Dandelion wild radish
Dandelion Plant also called wild radish

Use in herbal medicine

Dandelion wild radish
Herbal tea of ​​dandelion flowers

The extracts of dandelion and wild radish are used for the treatment or prevention of:

Edema and fluid retention, cellulite, obesity, gotta, High Cholesterol, dermatosi, stipisi, hemorrhoids, intestinal fermentation, flute line, liver diseases noninfectious, rheumatic and arthritic, dyspepsia, Food poisoning from abuse, hyperglycemia.

Use in the kitchen

Dandelion wild radish
The wild radish in the kitchen

The plant is used as a vegetable, boiled, goes sauté with a clove of garlic. Excellent for omelettes with addition of grated cheese, delicious if you use the leaves to make a pesto as a sauce for pasta, the vegetables in the pan redone is delicious on pizza.

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Dandelion remade in the pan

Its buds you can blanch vinegar and keep as capers.

Dandelion wild radish
The flowers of dandelion

Picking the flowers you can make a delicious jam, here doses: 100 grams of flowers, 200 grams of water, boil for 20 minutes then strain. Put it back in the pot to boil on the stove and add 100 grams of sugar. Let it boil until it reaches the density you want. The result will be a yellow cream flavor and smell of honey, not bad.

Dandelion wild radish
Beans wild radish

With the roots of dandelion was preparing a roasted coffee substitute, let's keep this as the hard times they run.

Dandelion wild radish
Risotto with radicchio wild

Great risotto dandelion, dandelion and beans, delicious soup dandelion and chickpeas.

Dandelion wild radish
A soup dandelion

The dandelion was called in by the name of piscialetto, renowned for its diuretic properties, Try a herbal tea of ​​dandelion flowers.

dandelion wild radish
Spaghetti with pesto dandelion or wild radish
herbs
The guide to herbs Silvio Cicchi

If you are interested in the use of herbs in the kitchen, download my free guide to herbs.

If you want to know more about the dandelion can consult wikipedia.

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