Pizza Toppings From Around The World
The pizza may very well be the most favourite fast food anywhere in the world. And yet each pizza is different. Every country has its own signature pizza and has devised new methods of making pizzas and newer toppings that suit their taste.
The barbecued pizza is in demand in Australia and in India and Pakistan, it is the tandoori pizza that sells like hot cakes.
With regard to pizza toppings, many different ingredients have been tried out some quite successfully and some with not so much success. Bacon and eggs as a topping is common in Australia.
The French created 'flambee', which is bacon with onion and fresh cream while the Japanese combine bacon with potato and mayonnaise and have page_seo_titled it 'Mayo Jaga'. And for bacon added to just about anything on a pizza, you should go to Brazil!
Gourmet pizzas in Australia come with some really exotic toppings like dill, tiger prawns, salmon, emu, shrimp, pineapple, bocconcini, barbecue sauce, and even kangaroo and crocodile! Wood-fired pizzas where pizzas are baked in a ceramic oven fuelled by wood are preferred by most.
Even though sea food as a topping is not very popular, there is still sufficient demand for it. In Japan, you could find toppings of eel and squid on your pizza. Salmon, mackerel, sardines, tuna, herrings are highly favoured toppings in Russia. In the United States of America, although pepperoni is the most common topping, there are also takers for Cajun shrimp.
Sunny side up eggs as toppings on pizza may be purely a Russian creation! In India, purely vegetarian pizzas are as much in demand as are non-vegetarian pizzas. Most Indian vegetarian pizzas would have a cottage cheese 'paneer' as a topping. A pizza topped with just onions, olives, jalapeno peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, and 'paneer' can be a perfectly satisfying dish in India.
In some parts of the world, people love to top their pizzas with minced meat like lamb, beef, or bacon. Just a little less popular than pepperoni are sausages as toppings in the USA.
Brazilians take their pizza making skills quite seriously especially when it comes to the toppings. Very little tomato sauce is used on their pizzas. Don't be taken aback if you find ice cream, strawberries and whipped cream, cooked apples, guava paste, bananas and plantains, atop your pizza! You could even find mashed potatos or potato sticks, curried chicken mixed with coconut milk, and grilled sausages, sharing equal standing with regular tomatoes, oregano, ham, olives, and bacon.
If you are to taste the authentic flavour of a country's pizza, you need to eat it there as nowhere else will you get the same taste.
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