[Closed] Pizza toppings

Pepperoni...........and pineapple

Agree about Tesco being awful - seems most of their slightly interesting nibbles are the same. Salmon cream canape are just salty mush

Haggis

Basil and mozzarella for me. Tried mozzarella on a home made pesto base, that was delicious too!

Any local independent delis available?

Our local French deli (in Worcestershire) sell lovely salami and chorizo.

Venison(thinly sliced),haggis,mozzarella,spinach,peppers(you choose the colour)on top of a good tomato sauce.

Waitrose Chorizo is special. The sliced in a pack stuff. I usually have it with Mozarella, a little Cheddar and some ripe Stilton.

My current fave is cubed chicken pan-fried in Bart pilau rice seasoning - not at all hot but it has a lovely aromatic flavour.

My go to toppings are tomatoes infused with garlic, cheese, Italian style Milano salami or Neopolitian style if they have it. Chilli flakes, olives and lots of origano. I also drizzle a little bit of olive oil over it.

Nothing fancy and all available from the supermarket.

Swap pepperoni for thinly sliced chorizo.
Sprinkle a little chilli oil over the pizza once cooked.
Black pepper

Get decent chorizo, not supermarket stuff. Duchy charcuterie and also Good Game down in Devon do some amazing stuff.
I can highly recommend nduja too on a pizza. On anything really.

https://www.duchycharcuterie.co.uk/

https://www.good-game.co.uk/

Leeks, finely slice spud and blue cheese is a winner.

If you can get hold of some smoked mozzarella that's good stuff too (easy to smoke your own)

I use the assorted Kielbasa from the local Polish shops. Mmmm, hungry now.

Get proper Italian tackle from adimaria - their cured meats are excellent compared to what you can buy in a supermarket. Guanciale is great on a pizza and superb as a base for a'matriciana or carbonara too.

Coppa is also great on a pizza.

Nduja is good but hot! If you want to make it vege gochuchang Korean chilli paste is great in a similar kind of way.

Nduja over here. I bought some from a fancy (read expensive) local deli and it was OK, the next lot came from eBay and is bloody lovely.

What are people using for the sauce?

The best pizza topping in the world is doner meat with Jalapeño's and garlic sauce.

You can argue against this, but it would be pointless.

It just is

good tinned tomatoes, blended down to a paste, and then simmered to reduce on the hob.

That said, my favourite 'pizza' doesn't have a tomato base, either:

Flammkuchen - a white cheese base with onions, lardons, maybe mushrooms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flammekueche

and cheese* and caramelised onion marmalade

* blue, mozzarella, strong cheddar, goat.....whatever you fancy

My OHs favourite is Lahmacun. She cannot eat dairy so we make that (vegan cheese is an abomination). Minced lamb, cumin, garlic, chilli then once cooked top with loads of fresh herbs, coriander, mint and parsley.

Anchovies, good black olives and capers.
Garlic and mushroom.
Egg with rocket sprinkled over after cooking.

Anchovies.
lots of them.

What are people using for the sauce?

Home-made pizza sauce, of course. Are you forgetting where you are? (-:

what's the difference between white cheese and philadelphia type stuff?

my favourite pizza is garlic oil and mozzarella. we often have cubed chicken on our pizzas, sometimes with sweetcorn

planning to get a lot more use out of our pizza oven this summer!

Sometimes I like a very simple tomato and cheese base with tinned tuna and spring onions. With about five minutes to go, pull the topping away from the centre and crack a room temperature egg in. When it is just cooked, take it out and leave for a minute before serving.

N’duja, Serrano ham, hot honey and mozzarella finished with rocket.

For your cold meats this pace takes some beating.

https://www.meatsaltsmoke.com

Tuna and pineapple.....try it ! It’s great👍

Being lactose intolerant put me on a prelude to going full vegan... so vegan cheese, peppers, sweetcorn and mushrooms, fresh basil/spinach is my go to. The Mrs has that too. Our 3 yr old just wants sweetcorn...only sweetcorn, a full tin on his pizza, no cheese, no peppers, its madness.

For the sauce, chopped toms and herbs (oregano/basil) some salt/pepper and some tomato puree into a blender then onto the hob to simmer

what’s the difference between white cheese and philadelphia type stuff?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fromage_blanc

That Quorn Vegan pepperoni up there ^^^ is actually quite palatable

another shout for ebay Nduja!! real imported Calabrian stuff. its the absolute best tasting substance on the planet!!

For the sauce, chopped toms and herbs (oregano/basil) some salt/pepper and some tomato puree into a blender then onto the hob to simmer

+ a splash of balsamic vinegar and a bit of sugar

Not something is often order in a restaurant, but since making my own the above suggestion of anchovies, black olives and capers is an absolute favourite. I put thinly sliced red onions and a light sprinkle of chilli flakes on too. You might as well be in Italy. 🇮🇹

Haggis does actually rock on pizza, fcat

For veggies then mushroom and roquefort is a favourite.  Cook the mushrooms a bit first

For sauce I use a recipe from this fine place from years ago.  Small tin tom puree, same quantity of water. Bit of vinegar, a little sugar salt and pepper. Cooked for 10mins while farting around getting other stuff ready.

Onion Bhaji.

Seriously.

It's epic.

That Quorn Vegan pepperoni up there ^^^ is actually quite palatable

It's great on a pizza paired up with Tivall hotdogs (if you can find them anywhere any more) diagonally sliced like you would a garlic baguette for a veggie take on a "meat feast" pizza. The last time I did it I chucked in leftover 'chicken' from a fajita mix I made a couple of days previous and it got absolutely inhaled.

Quorn cocktail sausages, sliced diagonally or into little rounds, are awesome too.

Haggis does actually rock on pizza, fcat

Onion Bhaji.

Honestly, if you take away the snobbery, the question then just becomes "what can I put on warm flatbread?"

Curry sauce base instead of tomato? World's your mollusc.

Quorn cocktail sausages, sliced diagonally or into little rounds, are awesome too.

I like the cut of your jib. I've been wanting to try those for ages but I'm not a fan of cold sausage.

(Quiet at the back.)

Tuna with pepperoni/cizorio

Goan sausage

Local to me, and rather good.
https://www.cornishcharcuterie.co.uk/

Rocket and Parma ham

anchovies, capers, olives, fresh chillies and a little red onion.

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Haggis

we bought a haggis the other week and froze it, we were just wondering today when and how to eat it. how are you cooking your 'pizza haggis'? pre-cooking the whole haggis then putting some on the pizza? what about the rest of it?

For the sauce, chopped toms and herbs (oregano/basil) some salt/pepper and some tomato puree into a blender then onto the hob to simmer

which is how we made our sauce last weekend, but why are you simmering afterwards?

N’duja

seen this recommended a few times on here, a quick google suggests its a paste? so are you mixing a bit in with the tommy sauce to give it a kick, or using it as a topping?

cheers

Chorizo, honey and fresh basil works well

Depends upon how the nduja comes. We buy it as a sausage, so sliced and scattered on the pizza. Don't put too much on as it's essentially whipped pork fat. You'll have a very oily pizza.

It is also amazing if you pop it under the skin of a whole chicken and roast it.

According to Jamie Oliver last night - sun-dried tomato purée, Red onion, Cumberland (or veggie) sausage, pine nuts, rosemary, mozzarella and GRAPES! It looked fantastic so we’re trying it this weekend.

seen this recommended a few times on here, a quick google suggests its a paste? so are you mixing a bit in with the tommy sauce to give it a kick, or using it as a topping?

its very soft sausage, almost a spreadable - i just grab little blobs and dot it around. its pretty fiery and tends to melt into the mozzerella... drooooooooooooool

Anchovies, salami high quality is better but supermarket stuff will do the job, onions, capers and chillis (vary according to taste).

As theotherjon said used tinned tomatoes not purée if making your own and also if you like cheese add some parmesan or that ‘not regionally protected’ alternative. Nigella does a good pizza recipe that you add your own toppings, can’t remember which book it is in though.

which is how we made our sauce last weekend, but why are you simmering afterwards?

To reduce acidity and bring out the sugars?

These days I prefer a non cooked tomato sauce. Whole san marzano toms squeezed by hand with a little salt, sugar and oregano.

Using the blender apparently splits the seeds which makes it bitter.

I simmer to reduce the volume and thicken it, preference rather than necessity.

Hate to say it, but I quite like the Pizza Hut/KFC popcorn chicken and gravy sauce pizza. More conventionally, normal tomato sauce with chopped up bacon and onion.

Best thing anyone can do with a pizza is not put pepperoni on it. Tastes great but that's where 90% of the oiliness comes from.

I don’t eat cheese so I put big blobs of creme fraiche on mine. As well as anchovies, olives and capers.

A drizzle of pesto work well too. And thinly sliced courgette. And chilli flakes.

Veggie chorizo too - and that quorn pepperoni is pretty decent.

I really fancy pizza now.

how are you cooking your ‘pizza haggis’

The haggis is usually already cooked so I just put little blobs around the pizza.  It will heat up well while the pizza cooks

What are people using for the sauce?

Two tins of nice chopped toms

one medium onion pealed  cut in half

two whole cloves of garlic, pealed

a smidge of chilli flake if you like it

a heavy handed application of origano

olive olive

some black pepper

All in a pan - low heat with the lid on for about an hour, just very gently bubbling away. Then remove the two onion halves and smush the garlic cloves against the side of the pan and stir in. Don't blend it - the lumps are good.

I sometimes have that and nothing else on a pizza

I’ve recently been using this as tomato sauce for pizza

Multi Roma passata

It’s fresh, sweet and tasty. Really lovely. Their tins of pizza sauce are good as well but this tastes so fresh, it’s great with simple Neapolitan pizzas.

I don’t eat cheese so I put big blobs of creme fraiche on mine. As well as anchovies, olives and capers.

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Jesus H Corbett! That sounds like cruel and unusual torture! There’s probably laws against it! If not, there should be. Truly bloody awful! I’d rather eat my ownshoes

Pretty much all the suggestions on this thread are so middleclasstrackworld and so vomit-inducingly awful - Quarn on a pizza? Dear god, get a grip - that I’m going to suggest what most normal, sane people who haven’t yet disappeared up their own arses would do...

I mean; Have you stopped for a minute to imagine what the bloke who invented pizza would make of this self-indulgent toss?

Just phone your local pizza place up and ask them to deliver a 14” mighty meaty with some cheesy chips and I’ll guarantee you it’ll be ten times better than any of this chin-stroking shite.

It also has the bonus that it’ll save you a trip to Waitrose, so less mileage on the Audi and you don’t have to build a pointless pizza oven in your back garden.

With about five minutes to go

I feel I’ve let Binners down 😔. And to think he once doffed his cap at my McDonald’s intake! The shame!

I’m not angry

I’m just disappointed

I’m not angry

I’m just disappointed

Sit back and relax with a nice mug of mellow birds 😉

I’m not angry

I’m just disappointed

Firing up the Domino’s App as we speak 🥳

@trail-rat.
Clearly I don't have a pizza over. Clearly you do. 😛

Have to admit I find tomato sauces a bit cloying and prefer to add just a bit to a garlic flavoured sauce.
Plenty of cooked meats like salami and chorizo, though too much can make it too oily(Usually needs a pressing with a kitchen towel to soak a bit of it up. Always onions,defatted bacon is nice too and thats about all she wrote. Other than fresh sliced mozzarella, rather than the pre grated packet stuff.

Anyone puts pineapple on a pizza should be shot.

Firing up the Domino’s App as we speak

Does anyone actually like Domino's? They always seemed to me to be overpriced voucher-driven mediocrity. There's a proper Italian place just up the road from here which makes pizza from actual food and is half the price of Domino's.

But as per Binners, I'd rather get a Pizza Shaped Object from a Highway Kebabbery with a sweaty elephant's leg at the back than go to Domino's / Papa John's / all the other big chains who want to charge 17 quid for a small pizza unless it's between 5pm and 5:30pm on a Tuesday, you've got a coupon and you're buying six of them.

Remember the 'flat roofed pub' rule? Here's my pizza shop corollary: never visit a pizza chain which thinks it's acceptable to sell pizza by the slice.

I'm absolutely mystified as to how Dominos are still in business, especially in the era of Just Eat etc.

I've never had one.

Mainly because we've got an absolutely top notch pizza place that delivers and seems to be about half the price of Domino's. Hasn't everybody?

for the sauce I just use a half decent passata - topping wise i'm partial to gorgonzola and parma ham, or a liberal application of razor thin slices of garlic & chilli (flakes or fresh)

I’ve never had one.

How do you know they're not delicious* then?

* They aren't. They're massively greasy but that's not the point. Pizza Hut is far superior to both Dominos and Papa Johns FWIW.

especially in the era of Just Eat etc

Domino's will have Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber terminals chirping away so they don't miss out.

Here’s my pizza shop corollary: never visit a pizza chain which thinks it’s acceptable to sell pizza by the slice.

You've never been to Italy then?

Heh. I take your point but that's a wholly different scenario.

As has probably been said, best bet is to make a proper tomato sauce using good quality tomatoes, then use a decent buffalo mozzarella and then some fresh basil after cooking.

Thinly-sliced shiitake mushroom is a winning addition. two slices of mushroom per slice. Quality and taste over quantity is what I find works best for pizzas and that goes for bread, base-sauce and toppings. Don’t skimp on the quality of the tinned toms. I find Cirio or Napolina to be both fine.

I do like the odd anchovy but they are expensive so looked at sourcing a cost-effective alternative. I found ‘Lusso Vita’ Anchovy Paste, around a quid from Waitrose. Bingo! Those little pea-sized blobs of anchovy-paste (just one or two per slice) deliver delicious hot packets of salty umami flavour in just the right amount. That sounds all sorts of wrong but trust me.

Dominos is the worst pizza I’ve had.

Despite owning a pizza oven I still indulge in the odd takeaway pizza, they’re different to home but still good. That said there’s 2 pizza places near me that do ‘proper’ pizzas too not kebab shop style.

Honestly, if you take away the snobbery, the question then just becomes “what can I put on warm flatbread?”

You could say that about any actual dish and still be wrong 😉

Cornish pasty? Swede? Beef skirt? Onion? You what?? If it wasn’t for the snobbery it could just as well be pickled eggs wrapped in pastry! Or a sausage pie. You could even make a traditional lunch/dessert one by filling half with Haribo and the other half with tomato sauce. Hey presto. A Cornish pastie with the snobbery removed.

Shepherd’s Pie? Forget proper snooty ‘lamb’ with gravy, and that ‘perfect mashed potato’ poncense, it could just as easily be mashed yams with a nice tinned curry underneath. Or Cod in parsley sauce.

Biryani? Well that’s just rice with anything lobbed on top, if people are honest. Stick some Brussels sprouts on top of rice, or if want meat then a packet of cocktail sausages or some corned beef. Hey presto - biryani. Don’t listen to the food snobs, just be ‘honest’ instead!

For something a little different (and reminds me of the Alps)

Pizza tartiflette - no tomatoes, creme fraiche thinned with some white wine for the base and topped with smoked lardons of bacon, onion and potato (cooked beforehand obviously) and finished off with reblouchon cheese.

Not authentic but I suspect a little rosemary might be nice with it

Hey presto. A Cornish pastie with the snobbery removed.

Cornish Pastie is a protected term. What you've got there is a pastie, rendering the rest of your argument moot. Sure you could have a Haribo and tomato sauce pastie if you wanted.

An apple pie might be light years away from being a pork pie, but it's still a bloody pie isn't it.

Thanks to those who pointed out their favorite online deli stores, looks to be some promising stuff to keep me busy there. If I ever have any going spare I'll make sure to give the haggis a try too.

Blue cheese though? No.

Whats the ebay nduja of choice gents ?

off topic, but lasagne made half with mince and half with haggis is ace

An apple pie might be light years away from being a pork pie, but it’s still a bloody pie isn’t it.

You specified ‘flatbread’. Which is unleavened/yeast-less. Rendering the rest of your ‘pizza = anything on flatbread’ argument as useful as calling Quorn sausages, gravy and mashed potato plopped on a nan bread an ‘honest pizza’ 😉

I’m not really disagreeing, just arguing for the fun of it. And anyway, surely the best thing about being British is declaring all foreign food ‘snobbish’ unless it’s properly messed with/re-invented!

https://www.instructables.com/Full-English-Breakfast-Pizza/

What Binners may find hard to understand is that I enjoy a proper pizza every bit as much (maybe more) as he enjoys a proper Gregg’s steak bake or proper English brekky. Furthermore, I will recommend my favourite toppings every part as enthusiastically as he might recommend his favourite innards. Or ‘Binnards’, as he would no doubt remind me. 😙

Yes, even if he is snobbish about foreign foods which don’t come from his local deli. I will not be talked down to like that. Not for my £1 tube of fish paste or my tin of Italian tomatoes. Harumph.

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