Italiano
How many types of pizza are there in the world?
The Pizzarecipe website lists 687.
Among them are those with toppings that I would say are even less orthodox than the Hawaiian (see, above all, the Swedish Banana Curry, with Curry sauce, Banana slices, and Pineapple slices).
Truth is that, being thousands of types of potential toppings (with varying degrees of orthodoxy), the combinations are nearly endless.
Anyway… Can pizzas be classified?
Of course.
They can be grouped on the basis of topping, crust, flour, type of cooking, and who knows how many other criteria.
In the menus of Italian pizzerias, the distinctions are above all two: the red-based pizzas, and the white-based pizza.
The difference, as can be seen, lies in the presence or absence of the tomato.
The white-based pizzas therefore have the main topping of mozzarella, although sometimes it can be another type of fresh cheese (or even more than one, as in the Quattro Formaggi).
Red-based pizzas have tomato sauce as the first ingredient, and can have mozzarella (as in the “queen of pizzas”: Margherita), or not (as in the Marinara, another cornerstone of the tradition).
I guess everyone has their favorites.
If I may express my opinion: pizza with anchovies and capers among the “red” ones, pizza buffalo mozzarella, sausage and radicchio among the “white” ones!
In the pic attached, a pan of red pizza and a pan of white one. Photo courtesy of Pizzeria Maretta, in Rimini.
Dough leavened with Inox Bim retarder proofer, obviously!
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