What is the name of the Japanese alternative to pizza? Japanese pizza - a healthy seafood dish
McDonald's strives to provide customers with the same pizza toppings at all of its locations. However, typically Japanese pizza does exist.
01. Pizza - Scallop, butter soy sauce.
The seafood pizza contains marinated scallops, mussels, shrimp, butter sauce, cheese and mayonnaise.
Price: Medium - 2,340 yen ($24), Large - 3,480 yen ($35.74). 
02. Pizza - Terriyaki Chicken
The pizza contains terriyaki chicken, cheese, onions, corn, mushrooms, parsley, seaweed and mayonnaise.
Price: Medium - 2100 yen ($21.57), Large - 3150 yen ($932.35). 
03. Pizza - cheese and honey
The pizza contains Gorgonzola cheese, cream cheese, mixed cheese, Parmesan, cherry tomatoes and parsley. After all this is baked in the oven, pour acacia honey on top.
Price: Medium - 2280 yen ($23.42), Large - 3420 yen ($35.13). 
04. Pizza - Sausage and thickly sliced bacon with meat sauce.
The pizza contains cheese, onions, chopped bacon, diced tomatoes, parsley, more than 10 types of sausage and black pepper tomato sauce.
Price: Medium - 1980 yen ($20.34), Large - 2980 yen ($30.61). 
05. Pizza - Spicy Bulgogi
Pizza-Bulgogi - literally “Fire” in Korean, contains spicy beef, several types of chili peppers, and potatoes.
Price: Medium - 2340 yen ($24), Large - 3480 yen ($35.74). 
06. Pizza - Potato Mayo
Pizza contains baked potatoes with mayonnaise, sausage, corn...
Price: Medium - 2240 yen ($23), Large - 3480 yen ($35.74). 
07. Pizza - Avocado, shrimp
Pizza contains only four ingredients: shrimp, pancetta, mayonnaise and avocado sauce.
Price: Medium - 2400 yen ($24.65), Large - 3400 yen ($34.92). 
08. Pizza - Crab, seafood.
The pizza contains cheese, broccoli, crab and shrimp.
Price: Average - 2500 yen ($25.683), 3750 yen ($38.51). 
09. Pizza - Spicy Deluxe
Onions, pepperoni, spicy Italian sausage and jalapenos - just fire!
Price: Medium - 2120 yen ($21.78), Large - 3280 yen ($33.69). 
10. Pizza - potatoes, anchovies.
Potatoes, mushrooms, fresh mozzarella and anchovies.
Price: Medium - 2778 yen ($28.53), Large - 4068 yen ($41.78). 
You can find all these pizzas in retail chains in Japan. But prices may vary, because... Quite a long time has passed since publication. The main thing they wanted to show was the types of pizza and their approximate cost.
Pizzas differ from one nation to another. For many countries, differences are associated with the specific products grown or mined within its borders. In Brazil, hearts of palm stems are added to pizza.
In Finland, the traditional ingredient is venison, and instead of the usual champignons, they use chanterelles.
In Sweden, banana curry is added as a seasoning, and in India, pizzas often contain ginger and paneer, a type of local cheese.
In Connecticut, USA, one of the pizzas is called "White Clam Pie", which are included in the dish. Oregano and cheese are added to them.
In Alsace they serve the so-called “Tarte Flambé” - a cake made from thin dough, covered with sour cream, cooked in a white-hot oven. It is distinguished by its piquancy.
In Chicago, pizza is cooked in a special pan, which makes it deep with high, dry edges.
In France there is a special dish - it is scrambled eggs cooked on pizza, to which various additives are then added in the form of meat, vegetables and other things.
In Scotland, their national dish, Haggis, is found on pizza. It consists of the heart, lungs, kidneys and liver of a sheep with the addition of oatmeal and spices, as well as broth. This mixture is distributed over the dough and a kind of pizza is obtained.
Calzone is a type of pizza that resembles a pie., because it is closed. Its preparation is most common in the center and south of Italy.
Calzone is used in different ways: some prepare it as a main course, some as a snack, and some as a dessert. It all depends on what you fill this dish with.
Pizza2dom.ru offers three options to choose from. If you are a fan of substantial food, then the Meat Calzone is for you. This pizza includes chicken, bacon, mushrooms, tomatoes, red onion, mozzarella cheese and pizza sauce.
Particularly noteworthy is the Vegetable Calzone stuffed with champignons, tomatoes, red onions, sweet peppers and Mozzarella cheese.
As a dessert, we present to your attention the Apple Calzone pizza, inside of which there is the most delicate filling of apples and cinnamon.
Focaccia is another Italian invention that came after pizza. It is a flatbread made from wheat flour or yeast dough.
As a rule, they are prepared in a round shape, but some prefer square or rectangular. Traditional focaccia is served with fillings - both savory and sweet.
We offer focaccia in several versions: with bacon, with Mozzarella cheese, with tomatoes and Pesto sauce, or with garlic butter.
Along with its traditional national dishes, almost every country has its own variation of classic Italian pizza and this is perhaps the main sign of the dish’s global popularity. What makes chefs from all over the world reconsider the classic Margarita recipe, perfect in its simplicity? The point here, most likely, is in national characteristics and products characteristic of each specific area, which sometimes form the basis for the most unusual fillings. From spicy banana pizza from Sweden to, for some reason, Hawaiian pizza from Canada, today we find out what you can get on your plate by placing the same order in two dozen establishments around the world. By the way, some pizzas are not so easy to order if you don’t know what they are called, for example, in Japan or France.
1. Naples, Italy
In Naples, Italy, the approach to pizza is so serious that there is an entire organization, Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, that regulates the rules for its preparation and monitors their implementation. For example, a real Neapolitan pizza should have a layer of dough no thicker than 2 millimeters and be baked for 60-90 seconds in a wood-fired stone oven preheated to 485 degrees Celsius. It is usually filled with tomatoes, mozzarella, fresh basil and garlic.
2. Brazil
In Brazil, without any organizations, they make quite good pizza stuffed with ham, cheese, corn, green peas and heart of palm. They say it's very tasty.
3. Apizza in New Haven, Connecticut
In this area, pizza is called apizza and is cooked in a very hot brick oven, turning the dough into a crispy thin crust. This dish contains much less cheese, but contains shellfish soaked in olive oil with oregano, grated cheese and garlic.
4. Tarte flambé in Alsace, France
In Alsace, the table is served with very thinly rolled dough filled with sour cream, onions and crumbled bacon, baked in the oven. Of course, this dish could not do without its own name “Tarte Flambé”.
5. Finland
Venison, tomatoes, cheese, red onion and chanterelle mushrooms are what is included in the so-called Berlusconi Pizza, which got its name in 2008 after a comment by the Prime Minister of Italy, who tasted this dish of Finnish cuisine.
6. Bulgogi Pizza in Korea
The national Korean dish bulgogi, which is an analogue of our barbecue, of course, could not pass by those who in this country come up with pizza toppings. Thus was born a dish with grilled beef, tomato sauce, cheese, mushrooms, sweet peppers and kimchi pickled vegetables.
7. Topping Pizza in Chicago, Illinois
Perhaps the most toppings, generously mixed with cheese and tomato paste, are put on pizza in Chicago. Such a pie even has to be baked in a specially deep container, which prevents the dish from falling apart.
8. India
In exotic India, they like to add a lot of pickled ginger, minced lamb and paneer cheese, which is very popular in this country, to pizza.
9. New York
In the Big Apple, of course, there were masters who revised the unshakable recipe for classic pizza and made its dough base thicker and softer at the edges and thinner towards a crispy center. It can be cooked either in a frying pan or simply on stones in the oven.
10. France
We've already covered how pizza is prepared in Alsace, but a common French recipe for this dish involves adding an egg to the filling, either pre-fried in a pan or simply broken into the dough before baking.
11. Banana curry pizza in Sweden
Actually, the very name of one of the most popular pizzas in Sweden contains the lion's share of the recipe. It is worth saying that smoked ham is added to curry powder and bananas, and now the whole secret is revealed.
12. Haggis in Scotland
In Scotland, they know a lot about toppings and add pudding from lamb heart, liver and lungs to the top of the pizza flatbread, and then mince with onions, oatmeal, lard and spices.
13. Australia
Australians can boast of many exotic (but not for them) pizza toppings, for example, with kangaroo, emu or crocodile meat.
14. Mayo Yaga in Japan
Don't be fooled by the appearance of this Japanese variation of pizza - inside you will find not apples at all, but tomato sauce with onions, potatoes, pancetta, pepper and mayonnaise.
15. Detroit
But in the Michigan city of Detroit they serve pizza in a very indecent square shape. What it lacks in irregularity is made up for by the thick, sometimes crispy biscuit base topped with a filling of pepperoni, olives and Marinara sauce.
16. Tuna pizza in Germany
Pizza with tuna, tomato sauce, pepper, onion, cheese and oregano should go perfectly with real German beer.
17. Fugazza in Argentina
Lots of sweet greens and onions can be found on the Argentinean variation of pizza, which can also be topped with mozzarella. In the latter case, it is called a little differently - Fugazetta.
18. Hawaiian pizza in Canada
The generously topped Hawaiian pizza was actually invented in 1962 in Ontario, Canada, by adding assorted peppers, mushrooms and Canadian bacon to a slightly thickened dough.
19. Chicken Tikka in Pakistan
But in Pakistan, they decided to enhance the sausage base of the pizza with chicken seasoned with hot chili sauce. We advise you to be careful at the first tasting.
20. Frozen pizza in Glasgow and Fife, Scotland
Some places in Scotland are famous for their very unconventional approach to pizza preparation, for example, freezing pre-deep-fried pieces of this test miracle.
21. Kebab pizza in Sweden
In Sweden, they prepare pizza stuffed with roast meat, pickled vegetables, yogurt sauce and sometimes with the addition of lettuce.
Japanese cuisine is loved all over the world, because it is very unusual, sophisticated and healthy, and most importantly - incredibly varied and tasty. Japanese dishes use ingredients that are unusual for Europeans (seaweed, seafood, delicious fish), and therefore surprise him with their taste. In recent years, our country has seen a real explosion in the popularity of Japanese cuisine: new Japanese restaurants and sushi bars are opening, and some Russians are happy to cook rolls and miso soup at home.
The Japanese are very conservative, and the main dishes of their national cuisine have not changed for decades. But they are not alien to the influence of other cultures. Therefore, the famous Italian invention, pizza, has gained popularity in Japan. As well as the accompanying service - home delivery of pizza. Surely pizza attracted the Japanese, who are very careful in matters of budget and restrained in food, with its economy and ease of preparation. But here it acquired local characteristics and became a completely special dish: neither in Italy nor in any other country will you try pizza with such an exotic taste as in Japan.
Chefs in Japan boldly experiment with combinations of products, and therefore the pizza on the Japanese menu will surprise you with its unusual toppings. You can order pizza on sale and get not the usual flatbread with bacon, tomatoes and cheese, but, for example, with octopus and Japanese shiitake mushrooms. And even the appearance of this simple dish will surely surprise you! So, what should you be prepared for when ordering Japanese pizza?
- Unusual filling. Despite the fact that in a Japanese pizzeria they can prepare a dish according to a classic European recipe (the familiar “Margherita”, “Four Cheese”, “Hawaiian Pizza”), flatbreads stuffed with local seafood (shrimp, eel) and seaweed are still much more popular .
- Seasonings. The Japanese use their traditional spices, which are different from European ones.
- Appearance. The cult of everything beautiful in the Land of the Rising Sun is a national character trait. This also applies to cooking. All dishes should not only be tasty, but also beautiful in appearance. Therefore, only in Japan is it customary to decorate pizza: for example, with curly cuts of ingredients or small rolls on the side of the pizza.
- Method of serving: in many Japanese restaurants, the client does not just wait for the dish to be served to him, but also watches the cooking process.
The Japanese have invented several of their own varieties of pizza. You should memorize them so that on occasion you can impress your companions with your knowledge of Japanese cuisine!
- The most popular Japanese pizza is a thick flatbread topped with nori (seaweed), shitake (Japanese mushrooms similar to oyster mushrooms) and chicken. A mandatory ingredient is teriyaki sauce, in which the chicken is marinated before being added to the filling.
- A gourmet variety is Okonomiyaki pizza. The guest assembles it himself, like a designer: he chooses what exactly and in what proportions will be included in the filling. The base of this pizza (also quite thick) is not baked, but fried. And everything on top is chosen according to your taste: tuna, shrimp, anchovies, meat, vegetables and even traditional Japanese noodles! Add sauce and cheese and your Okonomiyaki pizza is ready.
- Perhaps the most exotic variety of Japanese pizza is a dish with rolls that are baked along the edges of the base. This pizza is not only tasty, but also very filling.
And now some good news for all lovers of Asian cuisine: you don’t have to go overseas to order real Japanese pizza! Now an exotic dish made from traditional ingredients is available to everyone. You can try it in our restaurant or order it to your home (we deliver pizza to the Kirovsky district) to appreciate this unusual dish with your family.
Bon appetit!
Well, those who for some reason did not make it to Naples can find out how the favorite dish of the Ninja Turtles is prepared in different countries of the world, or offer their own version.
White pizza, USA
Ketchup, tomatoes, tomato paste... Everyone is accustomed to considering these to be the standard ingredients of any pizza. But there are also those chefs who deny this norm and offer their own pizza color - white. The peculiarity of this dish is that there are no tomatoes in the composition. The sauce that covers the dough can be prepared on the basis of olive oil or mayonnaise, and garlic is considered one of its key ingredients.
Upside Down Pizza, Philadelphia, USA
An unusual type of pizza can be found in Philadelphia restaurants. Despite the fact that its ingredients are not much different from the standard set, it looks very unusual. This is explained by the fact that in upside down pizza, the first layer is not dough, but cheese. Only a thin layer of dough, smeared with sauce, is laid out on it. Cheese fried in olive oil quickly hardens and becomes crispy, so the easiest way to eat this pizza is to roll it up.
Taco, Mexico
A compromise taco pizza can be considered a Mexican variety of pizza. This combination of traditional dish ingredients and new design appealed to many young residents of the country. The taco is prepared on a corn tortilla, and the filling includes meat, seafood, vegetables, herbs, fried over an open fire, and, of course, a variety of hot sauces. According to the old tradition, this pseudo-pizza is eaten in the same way as regular tacos - folded in half.
Thai pizza, Thailand
The Italian cult dish, which has long become an international cult dish, is loved even by the residents of Thailand. True, their interpretation began to bear little resemblance to what was in the classical version. The thin dough is brushed with soy sauce or barbecue sauce and then topped with bean sprouts, spiced carrots and marinated chicken. This pizza takes only a short time to cook over an open fire, less than ten minutes, and is one of the hottest in the world.
Local residents, no matter what, prefer traditional pizza, leaving the right to enjoy Thai delicacies to tourists.
Okonomiyaki, Japan
Japanese pizza is completely different from its European version. Okonomiyaki is prepared from flour, grated cabbage, water, eggs and dried tuna powder. The flatbreads are baked on a hot table surface (teppan), and then all restaurant visitors can independently sprinkle them with meat, fish or seaweed filling, pour soy sauce on them and eat. In a number of restaurants, by the way, when ordering okonomiyaki, the waiter brings the customers only a dish with dough, and he must bake the flatbread of the required size himself, since each table is equipped with teppan.
Smazhenka, Belarus
An unusual and very filling version of thick-crust pizza can also be found in the fraternal republic. Here, small round buns made from yeast dough and stuffed with cheese, sausage, pickles, olives and whatever else is lying around in the refrigerator are called smazhenki. They are prepared not only in cafes, but also at home, and the best smazhenki, according to the Belarusians themselves, come from loving grandmothers.
Traditional Italian pizza
And of course, the first place is still traditional Italian pizza, the recipe of which has been known for hundreds of years. According to most connoisseurs, the taste of real pizza depends only on the freshness of the ingredients used, the quality of the oven and the experience of the chef.
The composition and method of preparing classic pizza is very simple, but certain culinary skills are required.
So, for cooking you need to take 400 grams of flour, 2 teaspoons (15 grams) of dry yeast, 3 tablespoons of olive oil, 250 milliliters
water, 1 teaspoon salt, 4 tomatoes, 200 grams of mozzarella, herbs to taste (oregano, basil).
First of all, prepare the dough. To do this, you need to sift the flour, mix it with salt and yeast. Add olive oil to the mixture and gradually add water, stirring constantly. After thoroughly kneading the dough until smooth, cover it with a cloth and set it aside for an hour in a warm place.
In the meantime, you can prepare the filling. The classic version uses only ripe tomatoes (and/or tomato sauce), cheese and herbs, but you can also add sweet peppers and salami to taste.
Once the dough has doubled in volume, you can start rolling out. The cake should be thin, but not torn. After greasing the crust with sauce and placing the filling on it (grated cheese, tomatoes in rings and chopped herbs), you can sprinkle the pizza with olive oil and put it in the oven, preheated to 200 degrees, for 15-20 minutes.
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