Рецепт BBQ Chicken Pizza
Nobody
knows exactly when Mozzarella production started, but this cheese has been around
mozzarella in the twelfth century in connection with a monastery in Capua, but
a better documented reference is found in a 1570 cookbook, written by the cook
of the Papal Court, Bartolomeo Scappi.
Sources indicate that mozzarella was being
made sometime after the introduction of the water buffalo into the Campania
area in southern Italy, although one source tells me mozzarella was made from
cows’ milk before it was made from the milk of the water buffalo. And when did
the water buffalo arrive in Campania? Well, no one is sure. Some thought that
this might have happened in the sixth century C.E., other historians believe
that water buffalo were introduced into Italy by Hannibal, no later than around
200 B.C.E.
No matter what you believe that mozzarella
was originally a cow’s milk or buffalo’s milk cheese, regions of Italy outside
of Campania didn’t often raise water buffalo, so their mozzarella would have
been made with cows’ milk.
Water buffalo milk has an advantage over
cows’ milk when one is making cheese. The milk given by water buffalo is so
high in fat and protein that it is too rich for many people to drink, but it is
precisely this richness and quantity of protein that renders it ideal for
cheese making.
Prior to the 1860, mozzarella was a raw milk
cheese by virtue of the fact that pasteurization had not yet been invented.
Mozzarella has always been a fresh cheese, thus making it especially
perishable. Because of this, it does not seem to have been especially common.
Only the very wealthy who could afford to pay for the cost and transport of
fragile delicacies, or people who lived in or near the communities where it was
made, could enjoy mozzarella. In fact, mozzarella doesn't seem to have become
widely known until the later part of the 18th century.
Don’t order pizza and don’t bother with the frozen pizza.
This homemade BBQ Chicken Pizza taste better.
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- 1 cup BBQ sauce (use your favorite)
- 2 cups chopped cooked chicken
- 1 small white onion, finely chopped
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Slice baguette and place on
sheet pan. Toast baguette in oven, about 2 to 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a bowl toss chicken and BBQ sauce until well
coated. Remove baguette from oven. Sprinkle baguette with cheese, top with
chicken mixture, add onion, and sprinkle remaining cheese. Bake about 5 minutes
until cheese is melted. Sprinkle parsley. Serve and enjoy!