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Cllassic Neapolitan pizza margherita. Classic restaurant-style Pizza Margherita from Naples.
Welcome to FabulousFusionFood's Pizza Recipes Page — Pizza[a] is a traditional Italian dish typically consisting of a flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomato, cheese, and other ingredients, baked at a high temperature, traditionally in a wood-fired oven. The oldest recorded usage of the word pizza is from a Latin text from the town of Gaeta, then still part of the Byzantine Empire, in 997 AD; the text states that a tenant of certain property is to give the bishop of Gaeta duodecim pizze (lit. 'twelve pizzas') every Christmas Day, and another twelve every Easter Sunday. A frieze uncovered in Pompeii in 2023 showed a pizza-like flatbread served on a silver platter. This recipe has been analysed and reconstructed on this site as Ancient Roman pizza. Modern pizza, of course, could not exist before the Columbian exchange, when tomatoes came to Europe.


Records of pizza-like foods can be found throughout ancient history. In the 6th century BC, the Persian soldiers of the Achaemenid Empire during the rule of Darius the Great baked flatbreads with cheese and dates on top of their battle shields[24][25] and the ancient Greeks supplemented their bread with oils, herbs, and cheese. An early reference to a pizza-like food occurs in the Aeneid, when Celaeno, queen of the Harpies, foretells that the Trojans would not find peace until they are forced by hunger to eat their tables (Book III). In Book VII, Aeneas and his men are served a meal that includes round cakes (such as pita bread) topped with cooked vegetables. When they eat the bread, they realize that these are the "tables" prophesied by Celaeno.

Modern pizza evolved from similar flatbread dishes in Naples, Italy, in the 18th or early 19th century. Before that time, flatbread was often topped with ingredients such as garlic, salt, lard, and cheese. It is uncertain when tomatoes were first added and there are many conflicting claims, although it certainly could not have been before the 16th century and the Columbian Exchange. Pizza was sold from open-air stands and out of pizza bakeries until about 1830, when pizzerias in Naples started to have stanze with tables where clients could sit and eat their pizzas on the spot. A popular contemporary legend holds that the archetypal pizza, pizza Margherita, was invented in 1889, when the Royal Palace of Capodimonte commissioned the Neapolitan pizzaiolo (pizza maker) Raffaele Esposito to create a pizza in honour of the visiting Queen Margherita. Of the three different pizzas he created, the Queen strongly preferred a pizza swathed in the colours of the Italian flag—red (tomato), green (basil), and white (mozzarella). Supposedly, this type of pizza was then named after the Queen, with an official letter of recognition from the Queen's "head of service" remaining to this day on display in Esposito's shop, now called the Pizzeria Brandi. Later research cast doubt on this legend, undermining the authenticity of the letter of recognition, pointing that no media of the period reported about the supposed visit and that both the story and name Margherita were first promoted in the 1930s–1940s.

Pizza was taken to the United States by Italian immigrants in the late nineteenth century and first appeared in areas where they concentrated. The country's first pizzeria, Lombardi's, opened in New York City in 1905.[40] Following World War II, veterans returning from the Italian Campaign, who were introduced to Italy's native cuisine, proved a ready market for pizza in particular. Today, great number of pizza varieties exist, defined by the choice of toppings and sometimes also crust. There are also several styles of pizza, defined by their preparation method. The most notable types are: Pizza Margherita; Pizza marinara; Pizza capricciosa; Pizza quattro formaggi, Pizza quattro stagioni; Pizza pugliese; Seafood pizza and Pizza blanca.

The alphabetical list of all the pizza recipes on this site follows, (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 56 recipes in total:

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Air Fryer Bolognese Sauce
     Origin: Britain
Florentine Pizza
     Origin: Italy
Red Onion and Mozzarella Pizza
     Origin: British
Air Fryer Cheese and Ham Stromboli
     Origin: Britain
French Bread Pizza
     Origin: Italy
Roadhouse Chili Pizza
     Origin: American
Air Fryer Leftover Bolognese Pizza
     Origin: Britain
Ginger-chicken Pizza
     Origin: Fusion
Scone Pizza Base
     Origin: Italy
Alfredo Sauce
     Origin: Italy
Hawaiian Brunch Pizza
     Origin: American
Single-layer Calabrian Pizza
     Origin: Italy
Ancient Roman Pizza
     Origin: Roman
Lahm bi Agine Mankoushe
(Lebanese Lamb Pizza)
     Origin: Lebanon
Sloppy Joe Pizza
     Origin: American
Barbecue Chicken Pizza
     Origin: American
Lahmacun
(Turkish-style Pizza)
     Origin: Turkey
Soda Bread Pizza
     Origin: Ireland
Basic Potato Pizza Dough
     Origin: Ireland
Mankoushe
(Lebanese Pizza Dough)
     Origin: Lebanon
Special Pizza Tomato Sauce
     Origin: Italy
Boboli Pizza Crust
     Origin: Italy
Mexican Chicken Pizza
     Origin: American
Speedy Italian Pizzas
     Origin: Britain
Buffalo Chicken Pizza
     Origin: American
Pepperoni Pizza
     Origin: Italy
Spicy Meatball Pizza
     Origin: Italy
Butternut Squash and Feta Cheese Pizza
     Origin: British
Pizza alla Rustica
     Origin: Italy
Stattitati
(Honey and Sesame Pizza)
     Origin: Roman
Calzone
     Origin: Italy
Pizza Calabrese
(Calabrian Pizza)
     Origin: Italy
Sweet Potato Pizza Base
     Origin: African Fusion
Chicago Deep Dish Pizza Base
     Origin: American
Pizza Cordon Bleu
     Origin: France
The Perfect Pizza Base
     Origin: Britain
Chicken Florentine Pizza
     Origin: Italy
Pizza Napoletana
     Origin: Italy
Tomato and Bladderwrack Sauce
     Origin: Fusion
Chili with Beans
     Origin: American
Pizza Quattro Stagioni
(Four Seasons Pizza)
     Origin: Italy
Tomato Sauce for Pizza
     Origin: Italy
Coca Mallorquina
(Spanish Pizza)
     Origin: Spain
Pizza with Butter Masala Sauce and
Chicken Pakora

     Origin: Scotland
Traditional Bread Dough Pizza Base
     Origin: Italy
Coca Massegada
     Origin: Spain
Potato Pizza
     Origin: Britain
Tropical Chicken Pizza
     Origin: American
Coca Massegada
     Origin: Andorra
Potato Pizza Base
     Origin: Italy
Wild Mushroom Pizza
     Origin: Britain
Cornmeal Dough Pizza Base
     Origin: American
Potato Pizza with Tomatoes, Aubergines
and Basil

     Origin: Ireland
Zaatar Mankoushe
(Lebanese Zaatar Pizza)
     Origin: Lebanon
Deep Pan Pizza Dough
     Origin: American
Potato-topped Pizza Squares
     Origin: Ireland

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