In the form in which we know it, there was a pizza in the Italian city of Naples in the early 16th century, when Europe from America were imported tomatoes. Although something like that prepared by the ancient Greeks and Romans, instead of using the plates for food (meat, cheese, nuts, garlic, pepper and olive oil) pieces of dough.
Name of the dish sounding like two Italian words - piazza (square) and piatto (plate). Until the 18th century was considered a dish pizza commoners. And how else? After kneaded the dough for her feet, and ate her hands, so that the fat dripping into the sleeves. But King Ferdinand II, who sinned his passion for pizza, decided to change the attitude of the royal court. He summoned the best chefs headed by Gennaro Spadachchini and entrusted them to the day of the Queen's birthday come up with a recipe royal pizza.
Gennaro run errands in time. Now pizza dough whisking special bronze pestle in a human form, and eat it with a fork with four prongs. On the 30th anniversary of Queen Margherita of Savoy, a great pizza cooked by royal chefs, decorated festive table.
Since pizza "Margarita" has become a popular dish at the court. Today in Italy there are more than 2000 different kinds of pizza, but "Margarita" is one of the most sought after. That's it, and we offer you today to cook.
Ingredients on the pizza you need quite a bit, but it is important that they are "the very same", otherwise you will not famous Royal Pizza, just pizza, but probably also quite tasty.
INGREDIENTS
Flour - 500 g
Sol - 0.5 hours. l.
Sugar - 0.5 tsp
Dry yeast - 7 g
Olive oil - 1 tbsp. l.
Warm water - 250 ml
For filling:fromODR tomato - 100-130 g,wp mozzarella for pizza - 150-180 g ofDin large tomato, 8-10 basil leaves
PREPARATION Step by step
1. First of all, you need to carefully stir the yeast in warm water. Then sieved through a sieve into a bowl of flour, adding salt and yeast dissolved in water.
2. Then lay out the dough on a floured table dry and continue to carefully knead and stretch. It should have a soft and elastic.
3. Grease with olive oil bowl and run in the ball test on all sides. Cover with cling film and leave in a warm place for an hour
4. Divide the dough into three parts (three pizzas) and re-wrap in plastic wrap and leave for another half hour. Knead the dough is less than no sense, so if you are going to cook a single pizza, other tests suggest that you simply freeze and use at another time.
5. Roll out dough very thin (not more than 3 mm) layer. Otherwise, instead of the Italian dishes you get a thick cake. Roll out the dough on a floured recommend parchment and it is spread in the oven as to bring then thinly rolled dough before baking so that it is not deformed, no special shovel pizza pretty difficult
6. Preparing pizza sauce (fresh or canned tomatoes steamed - 400 g grind with 1-2 garlic cloves, add half a teaspoon dried oregano and basil). You can also use tomato paste or ketchup and spices.
7. Evenly distribute the sauce over the base of the pizza, then top with olive oil lubricates.
8. Preheat oven to 250 degrees and bake the cake at a lower level for 5-7 minutes. For baking, you can turn the back side of the pan, so that the pizza is not deformed from its rim.
9. While the cake is baked, cut into slices 5-10 mm thick mozzarella (white balls need not, and the special mozzarella for pizza in the bar), and tomatoes.
10. When the cake is browned and bumpers pizza rose lay on him cheese, put the tomatoes on top and broken into several pieces of basil leaves. Again send pizza into the oven for 5-10 minutes, only this time on the top shelf. Enjoy your meal!
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