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Pizza: History - Preparation of pasta-Recipes

Pizza began as a dish because its needs for food preparation simple and easily found: flour, oil, salt and yeast.

Although some historians assume that in fact this food was already in the kitchen Etruscan true pizza was born around 1600 by culinary ingenuity southern Italy, where he needed to make more attractive and tasty crushed the traditional bread and indeed it was dough for bread cooked in ovens, seasoned with garlic, lard and salt.

The arrival of modern pizza happens with the discovery of tomato!
So begins the era of modern pizza: in Naples and also in America.
Indeed in the pizza with tomato reaches in America thanks to the Italians who emigrate to New York-and as is done in Naples.
During the same period in Naples happens you start to use the mozzarella. A Neapolitan pizza, Raffaele Esposito and his wife prepared the famous pizza with tomato and mozzarella in honor of Queen Margherita, wife of King Umberto I of Italy.
At this pizza queen liked the pizza and for this reason called by the name of the queen.
It was then that the pizza Margherita is imposed anywhere in the world.

Here is the recipe for preparing the dough a good pear pizza:

1 kg of flour
Of yeast
500 ml of warm water
2 tablespoons oil
2 teaspoons salt

Put the flour with a recessed area on the table, add water, yeast and other ingredients, mix working the dough with your hands until the dough becomes smooth and soft. At this point, cover the dough with a damp cloth and let rise until it has doubled its volume. It is necessary that the oven is the first to fire predgreje pizza.

While the oven heats, stretches the dough in a tin, previously greased with oil, and decorate if you want a crispy pizza immediately put in the oven, but if you want a pizza higher and softer the increase in leave pan covered with a damp cloth again for about an hour of time.
In the oven of the house, which, unfortunately, does not reach high temperatures, pizza cooking requires a total of 20 minutes and should cook it first with tomato and after only 15 minutes, remove from oven and add mozzarella, stuffing you want and put everything in the oven to complete cooking.

And here's some recipes to make a good pizza.

Four seasons.

Ingredients for 4 servings:
Pasta (prepared as we saw earlier)
Tomato pulp, 250 g
2-3 ripe tomatoes
4 fillets of red pepper
Mozzarella di bufala, 250 g
Ricotta, 200g
Cultivated mushrooms, 200g
Shrimps peeled, 100g
Cooked ham (4 slices)
Juice lemon
Parsley
One clove of garlic
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