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Authentic Neapolitan Pizza, or Pizza Napoletana, is known for being very tender, light, and moist at the same time. Neapolitan pizza was created in Naples, Italy and is known by the locals as pizza Napoletana. Forget about sausage, pepperonis, onions, and pineapples for toppings. Neapolitan style pizza is known for its simplicity. You won’t find anything more than fresh basil and mozzarella, olive oil, tomatoes, and a simple wheat dough in this historic pizza pie.
Cooks and foodies are passionate about Neapolitan pizza because it’s all about the ingredients. Creating this pizza from scratch isn’t about topping it with as many things as possible. It’s about finding the freshest ingredients and enjoying the simple tastes that come as a result. Picking the freshest tomatoes and adding fresh mozzarella are just the start. Hand tossing the dough ensures that the pizza has just the right amount of chew.
Starting in Naples around the 1600’s, poor people started to top their flatbread with tomatoes when they were finally imported from Peru. Explorers brought them back, and although believed to be poisonous at first, the more people who ate them without harm, the more popular it became. The neighborhoods in the poorer parts of town were known to have exceptional quality pizzas, and even visitors from out of town would come looking for this tasty dish. At the time, only sauce was on the bread. Cheese was not introduced until later.
Since Neapolitan pizza was created for King Umberto I and Queen Margherita when they visited Naples, it’s understandable how the simple flatbread became known as the Margherita pizza. Up until that point, all the bakers in the area simply served pizza with sauce. There was no cheese, no toppings other than basil, and no fuss.
People choose a Neapolitan pizza because they want simple flavors that come alive in their mouths. While other pizzas are tasty, they often have sauces that are too complex, with many competing flavors. Instead of complementing each other, these flavors become muddied and overpowering.
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