Different Pizza Variations

 All great pizzas are made with high quality crust, mozzarella cheese, sauce and toppings. You can increase or decrease any of them to suit your taste. Grated Parmesan or Romano cheese is often sprinkled on top of assembled thin crust and deep-dish pizzas before baking them.Use these cheeses sparingly. Start with about a tablespoon of either on your pizza. Increase or decrease the amount of these cheeses the next time based on your taste.The temperature to bake pizza is 450° F (220° C), but oven temperatures can vary from the settings Use an oven thermometer or experiment with your oven settings and baking times. Remember to preheat the unglazed quarry tiles for at least 50 minutes to achieve the best crust.

You can vary the crust thickness by increasing or decreasing the quantity of dough. For example, if you prefer the thin crust pizza with an even thinner crust, roll out the 14-inch pizza crust with 13 to 14 ounces of dough, rather than using 15 to 16 ounces of dough. The baking time is about the same.Most of the pizza recipes you’ll find use pepperoni, which is the most popular topping in the United States. Other toppings are frequently used in addition to, or instead of pepperoni, including combinations of toppings. All toppings are added to the pizza where these recipes call for adding the pepperoni.Italian sausage is another popular topping. If you use Italian sausage, buy hot Italian sausage rather than sweet Italian sausage. Remove the sausage from its casing and place individual mounds (the size of a grape) on the pizza. Flatten each mound of raw sausage with the ball of your thumb and/or fingers as if you were making very tiny hamburger patties. The patties will be about 3/4 inch in diameter by about 3/8 inch in thickness. This size assures thorough cooking.Other pizza toppings include anchovies, green olives, black olives, sweet green peppers, onions, and mushrooms. When adding crisp toppings such as onions or peppers, some people prefer to saute them first in olive oil to soften them. Others prefer to use them raw to retain some crunchiness. The toppings listed are traditional pizza toppings.   Use whatever toppings you wish. If you want to try a spinach and Canadian bacon pizza, make one. It’s your pizza.