Excluding cheese and tomato - what two toppings would make the best pizza?
Taking for granted that the pizza will have a tomato paste base and cheese on top, what other two ingredients would produce a great pizza? In Australia, we have lots of toppings combined, whereas in the US they seem to have a tendency towards only a few.
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Meat lovers! Bacon (or ham) and pepperoni!
sausage and peppers;
pepperoni and onions;
ham and pineapple;
broccoli and garlic
broccoli and garlic… thats something I have never heard of before :-)
spicy Italian sausage and bell peppers
with extra cheese and tomato sauce ;)
ham and champignons, no contest
Garlic cream sauce and prawns (shrimp).
Green pepper and mushrooms
Lots of pepperoni & mushrooms. Just got done eating one. :-)
Hot sauce.
Just cheese and hot sauce.
@rangerr I always put sriracha hot sauce on my pizza. My husband got me addicted to the stuff.
Love the mushroom.. But my favorite is a buffalo chicken pizza. Some Franks red hot, and some blue cheese with chicken and loads of mozz..
No sauce—sliced tomatoes, whole basil leaves, cheese on a thin crust
Veggie Sampler on a hand tossed—onion, banana peppers, green peppers, diced tomatoes, olives
Ham and onion on a thin crust, with parmesan
Mushrooms and black olives.
@laureth simple classic, might run with that :-)
Fresh garlic & pesto. A side of Ranch would also be nice too please. Can you have it here in an hour? Thanks!
I love fresh buffalo mozzarella, grilled chicken, fresh basil and Italian sausage – light on the sauce.
@rangerr – isn’t that what Dominos uses for sauce? :)
some people seem to be ignoring the “two topping” limit of the question…
I usually order mine plain, but if I get toppings it would be sausage and/or mushrooms.
I would bet money if you asked this to Michigan residents only 98% of them would say pepperoni. I went school there and laugh that they think all pizza comes with pepperoni. I actually went to a friends pool party once, and she ordered all 8 pizza’s pepperoni for the group.
Avocado and bacon.
@JLeslie I work at a pizza place and a group came in the other day who were from Michigan. They ordered a large pizza. I asked them what they would like on it, and they looked at me like I was absolutely insane. Now I understand why!
Sausage and black olive OR pepperoni and pineapple OR breaded chicken and hot sauce OR bacon and pineapple OR sun dried tomato and mushrooms.
I worked at a pizzeria for 3 years, and we came up with some pretty awesome combinations.
@lefteh LOL so I am assuming they ordered pepperoni from what you wrote.
@JLeslie Yep, after staring in bewilderment for what seemed like several minutes. They just didn’t understand why I was asking.
@lefteh I know. I think pepperoni pizza is like plain (cheese) pizza for them, that is where they start from and might add more.
spinach and portobello mushrooms
BBQ chicken, and black olives
Gorgozola and fresh basil.
If you fancy meat, add pancetta to the equation.
Capers or caper berries make an excellent finishing touch.
Also great: pine nuts, thyme, goat cheese, tapenade, marinated sun-dried tomatoes, and jamon serrano.
Sweetbreads might make an interesting topping.
Chunks of fresh tomatoes and black olive slices.
@rooeytoo sounds good, put that on the to cook list
@Tasdevilcol – When I moved to Australia from the east coast of the USA, I couldn’t believe all the stuff aussies put on pizza! I still prefer mine with a very thin crust, little tomato sauce (not ketchup), cheese then maybe if you must a little pepperoni and the chunks of fresh tomato and olives. I am still amazed at what my aussie husband eats on his!
@forestGeek ~ uh that would be a yes… especially for breakfast!!
@rooeytoo I had the same reactionwhen moved from the East Coast to England for a time. I consider New York/New Jersey the cradle of pizza, as it were, and couldn’t (and still can’t) figure out why these upstarts wer putting ham and pineapple, and/or barbecued chicken on pizza. For me, it’s either plain – that is with cheese and tomato sauce – or with a few veggies like peppers and mushrooms; when I’m eating meat, either sausage or pepperoni. Anything else -Fuggedabouddid!
@janbb lurve that you call it “plain” pizza (you’ll see I did also above) I think only New Yorkers do that?
@JLeslie Non-New Yorkers or non-New Jerseyans – what do they know about pizza? Ha!
sorry can’t edit my reply, but I wanted to include tomato with my pesto. best combo ever (just don’t screw up spreading it so the two mix together because this makes the pizza turn brown and it ruins the taste a bit).
Pineapple and garlic! Sounds a little weird, I know, but just try it – it’s heavenly!
Fresh ricotta and crumbled sausage
I agree about the Michigan people. I’m from Michigan, and everyone thinks Pepperoni comes standard. In fact, I didn’t realize that was a Michigan thing, I thought it was a Pizza thing. I have the darndest time telling them I don’t want pepperoni on a pizza. They look at me funny.
@rooeytoo I had a traditional Chicago deep pan pizza recently and I was amazed 1) how plain it was, and 2) how thick it was. I couldn’t imagine that ever catching on in Australia :-)
I verbs pizza! Almost 2 inches of pepperoni in sauce. Mmmmm
LOL I’m eating pizza right now! (not verns though)
How about the El Nino? It’s got 2 toppings, Peperoni and Taco!
I’m waiting for some pizza right now at Papa John’s. I ordered their 3 topping special, with green peppers, black olives, and mushrooms.
@mcbealer I am so happy to finally be back in the land of Papa Johns after 7 years in SF – the closest PJ’s was an hour away. Their pizza is excellent, but I’m really in it for the garlic dipping sauce – I can’t get enough of that stuff!
Tomatos and spinach…and copious amounts of garlic if it’s not already in the sauce
@akmcg reminded me: spinach and artichoke hearts. Definitely tasty. I guess at my restaurant, it’d really be three toppings though, because our spinach was a spinach and ricotta mix.
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