Angel Pizza Recipe - A simple recipe with my favourite ingredients.

 

By: Isabel Robson
Serves: 2
Preparation time: 30 minutes

Ingredients:
300 g pizza dough
300 g grated cheese
2 tomatoes
100g pineapple
2 baby sweet peppers
Black olives
Fresh basil leaves
Olive oil
Pepper
Salt

• Stretch pizza dough into a square ( 1 cm thick).
• Brush top with olive oil and add grated cheese.
• Add sliced tomatoes, sweet pepper, olives and pineapple.
• Season with salt and pepper.
• Bake in hot oven for 20 minutes.
• Serve hot with basil leaves.

Historic references to the first pizzas in Portugal, refer to dough being stretched, garnished with various ingredients and folded in half to be cooked in a stone oven.  More like what we call a pie in England.

The first pizza ovens would have been made from volcanic rock, the best material that can sustain the high temperatures desired for the best pizza.

With the variations the followed and lost translations, by the XVIII century, the pizza evolved into an open dough circle baked in stone oven with ingredients exposed.

The first pizzeria opened in Naples around 1830, it is thought that prior to this period, pizzas would be sold in main square by street sellers.