Different Types of Pizza in the World
Pizza is a delicious flatbread dish originating from Italy. Thinking of pizza builds a stunning image of melted cheese, tangy tomato sauce, a variety of toppings, and a crispy crust. It fills your mouth with saliva, doesn’t it?
Pizza comes in several varieties, with something to cater every taste bud. Pizza, throughout its rich history went through several modifications which led to such a wide variety of pizzas in the world.
Pizza restaurants around the world serve these different types of pizzas to satisfy the hunger of pizza lovers. With so many options, where do you even begin, isn’t it? We’ll try to list some of the different types of pizza from various parts of the world:
Neapolitan Pizza
New York Style Pizza
Chicago Style Pizza / Deep Dish Pizza
Greek Style Pizza
St. Louis Style Pizza
Meat Lovers Pizza
Diavola Pizza
Quattro Formaggi
Hawaiian Pizza
1. Neapolitan Pizza
The Neapolitan Pizza is the most fundamental pizza you will find. You can think of Neapolitan pizza as the minimalist masterpiece for a pizza made using light dough, tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, and olive oil. The dough is delicately made using whole wheat flour, natural Neapolitan yeast or brewer's yeast, salt and water.
There are further variations of Neapolitan pizza. The most popular one being the Margherita pizza which uses tomatoes, mozzarella cheese and basil representing the three colors on the flag of Italy. Marinara pizza is also quite popular and uses garlic and oregano on top of the fundamental ingredients.
2. New York Style Pizza
Thin and foldable slices are the fundamental properties of New York Style pizza. They are usually larger in size as well with an idea that a pizza slice can be ordered on-the-go. The New York Style pizza is cooked over a gas oven rather than the Italian way, inside a wood-burning oven.
3. Chicago Style Pizza / Deep Dish Pizza
The Chicago Style Pizza is known for its thick and doughy crust filled with cheese and tomato sauce. It is not your regular flat slice of pizza, it is a heavy meal that keeps you going for hours. One of its unique properties over Italian pizza is that it is prepared on a deep dish cake pan. It is also popularly known as the Chicago Deep Dish Pizza or just stuffed pizza in some places.
4. Greek Style Pizza
Greek pizza often has a thick and fluffy crust than its Italian counterparts. It mainly differentiates from an Italian pizza due to its method of cooking which is over a pan rather than inside an oven. A Greek pizza also differentiates through its toppings too. It is commonly topped with ingredients like spinach, Kalamata olives, feta cheese, bell peppers, artichokes, and onions.
5. St. Louis Style Pizza
The St. Louis Style pizza is famous for its crisp nature. Due to its crisp nature, it is also cut in rectangles of 3 or 4 inches, known as a “party” or a “tavern”. The crust is made without yeast which gives its crispiness. Imagine a crispy crust with sweet and savory tomato sauce on top of it with toppings like oregano, basil, tomatoes, anchovies, etc. Let’s not forget the cheese combination used in this pizza: cheddar, Swiss and provolone.
6. Meat Lovers Pizza
Moving away from types of pizza based on their origin cities or where they made their name, it is time for pizzas based on toppings. Introducing the meat lovers pizza. A meat lovers pizza is heaven for meat lovers. It is made using mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce and a variety of meat items available on the pizza dough. Some known toppings on this magnificent pizza are sausage, pepperoni, bacon, ham, ground meat, etc. Pizza bakers from all around the world are not shy to put their creativity on this pizza.
7. Diavola Pizza
Diavola Pizza calls specially out to the heat and spice lovers. The Diavola pizza presents you with a thin crust pizza with mozzarella cheese, spicy salami, chili peppers, and chili flakes if you wish for more hotness. In Italian, diavola means the devil, the reasoning behind its naming. It could not be better.
8. Quattro Formaggi
Quattro Formaggi translates to “four cheese” in Italian. Well, the name gives pretty much away about the pizza. It uses four types of cheese with Mozzarella being the base while the other three cheeses used depend on the baker or pizzeria you are at. This pizza is the wildest dream for a turophile. The cheese content is so high in this pizza that some bakers do not even bother to use tomato sauce or other toppings on it.
9. Hawaiian Pizza
Yes, we saved the Hawaiian Pizza for the last. This pizza sparks a debate wherever it goes. We are on the side of this amazing pizza which brings a tropical touch to pizza. The leading topping ingredients on a Hawaiian Pizza are pineapple and ham, which are held together by mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce. It is a funky option to try if you are looking for some sweetness on a pizza.
Conclusion
Surely, there are many more types of pizza out there for you to try. These are the 9 best ones we at Forli Italian Restaurant think are. Yes, we left out the veggie pizzas for this one. We’ll get to it in a different article.
Join us at Forli Italian Restaurant to try some of these fantastic pizzas. Forli is one of the finest Italian restaurants in Balmain, Sydney.
