Pepperoni, what is it? Facts, recipes, photos

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Beautiful, so delicious Italian word pepperoni, what associations does it evoke in the modern man in the street? Pizza is probably the first thing. More sophisticated people will say - sausage, and experts will correct - pepper. So after all, pepperoni - what is it?

Meaning of the word

Pepperone in Italian means hot capsicum, pepperoni is the plural of "peppers".

Italian chefs working in America began to call pepperoni spicy sausages like salami. The Italians usually cooked them from pork meat, in the American variation there is both beef and poultry meat.

To order spicy sausages in their homeland, ask for salame piccante.

Pepperoni is one of the most popular ingredients for making pizza, which bears the same name and is often a top seller. In Italy, pizza with these sausages is called pizza alla diavola.

Sausage recipe

So, pepperoni sausage. What is it, we found out. Would you like to try this spicy salami? Travel to Italy!Not? Then on a shopping tour around the shops of your native city, what if you get lucky? Long and possibly expensive?

All right. Let's make our own salami.

You will need:

• three kilos of pork;
• one kilogram of beef;
• coarse s alt - three tablespoons and another teaspoon;
• three tablespoons of ground paprika;
• two tablespoons of cayenne pepper;
• one tablespoon ground aniseed;
• one teaspoon of sugar;
• half a teaspoon of ascorbic acid;
• teaspoon minced garlic;
• a glass of dry red wine;
• pork belly one hundred and eighty centimeters long.

Now start cooking.

1. First, wash the meat, cut into pieces and lightly freeze it. Make minced meat in a meat grinder (separately pork and beef).
2. In a deep bowl, mix all the ingredients and leave in a cold place for a day.
3. Prepare the gut by washing it thoroughly twice, thirty minutes apart.
4. Fill the gut with minced meat, let out excess air. Bandaging should be done after twenty-five centimeters.
5. Cut into two sausages and hang to dry for about six to eight weeks.

Once the sausage is ready, store it in the refrigerator for up to two weeks or in the freezer for up to two months.

How to make pepperoni

We mentioned earlier that pizza is also called this mysterious word. Let's talk about her now.

Pepperoni pizza is pretty easy to make. All you need is dough, pepperoni sausages, mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce.

1. 

   You can buy the dough, or you can make it yourself. You will need: warm water (seventy milliliters), yeast (one teaspoon), s alt (quarter teaspoon), sugar (half teaspoon), olive oil (half tablespoon), wheat flour (one hundred and sixty grams).

2. First, make a dough of water, yeast and sugar, when the foam rises, add everything else, knead the dough and leave to rise for an hour.
3. After roll out a thin layer, lay on a sheet, spread with sauce.
4. Put the sliced cheese, and on it thin circles of sausage (possibly homemade) and send it to the oven, heated to a temperature of two hundred and twenty degrees. Pepperoni is ready in half an hour! Bon appetit!

Well, here it is in front of us in person - pepperoni pizza. What it is, how it is prepared and what it is eaten with, we hope it is clear.

However, it turns out that the hot pepper of the same name made famous not only the sausage and the American fast food dish. There are many other culinary masterpieces where pepperone is used, for example, sauce …

Pepperoni sauce

It would be logical to assume that hot peppers will be included in the sauce, and then, as they say, to taste. But no!

The name is so firmly entrenched in spicy salami that we will cook sausage sauce!

Forthe basics need mayonnaise (one tablespoon) and melted cream cheese (two hundred grams), and for the taste of pepperoni (half a kilogram).

The sausage should be cut into very small pieces, grated cheese, mix all the ingredients thoroughly, put in a mold and bake in the oven for twenty minutes.

This sauce is served warm, let your taste decide what it is for…

Now you will not be confused by the question: "Pepperoni - what is it?" You can not only answer, but also treat your interlocutor with this same pepperone, thereby earning the laurels of an exquisite culinary specialist!