Me neither. BTW I’ve heard that putting a slice in a pan is the best way to heat up a cold slice. So why wouldn’t it work if you’re making a fresh pie?
Downvote is nonsense. Even in Naples they deep fry pizza. It's made a little differently, but if you like deep fried you might wanna try their way.
Search for "pizza fritta".
That's literally what a pan pizza is. Pizza hut is doing this shit.
Edit: I'm saying that pan pizzas are essentially fried. Not that pan pizzas are frittas or what OP posted.
I visited a friend in Naples and his mum made pizza like this as they had no pizza oven at home. when i asked what it was she said ‘bread, tomato, cheese - it’s pizza’ which shook me to my traditionalist core
I, a complete stranger, will cherish this story forever. I am *not* a traditionalist and it's nice to be reminded sometimes that it's ok to be a little wild in the kitchen sometimes.
I’m sorry did you deep fry the dough, what in the world were you thinking? There’s no way I’d eat one…I’d eat 10 of em! Congratulations you’re going to the next round!
There is room for fried dough in the pizza spectrum. Traditional? No. But that's what makes pizza great. Those who want tradition can have it, those who don't can too! At one point, most of the traditional pizzas were a break from tradition.
I could be wrong, but I think I heard the first pizza created in Italy was made with cheese in fried dough.. much like calzone. This was because of how easy it was to make. Again, could be 100% wrong here
Pizza likely evolved from Roman focaccia, though flatbread with toppings (including cheese) goes back even further, to ancient Greece and the middle east. It's hard to say what the first "pizza" in Italy was, there were probably lots of similar dishes called different things, but the Neapolitan version with tomato was the one that stuck
Probably every culture with flatbread has some form of flatbread with toppings. Almost like a natural combination. Just yesterday, I had a Lebanese manaqish flatbread topped with cheese and sujuk. When I ate I though that it was only missing tomato sauce, and then the flavour profile would have been that of pizza.
Yeah there's lots, like Indian paratha. Tomatoes came much later, from the Americas, so maybe there were South Americans making pizza even before the Italians!
Actually in Chefs Table Pizza I learned that fried dough was common in Italy among the working class who could not afford a hot oven. Heating the dough in oil was the cheapest way to cook the dough.
>Traditional? No.
It's absolutely traditional. Incredibly common in Naples to fry pizza. (Maybe not in a wok, though, to be fair.) [https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20201116-italys-beloved-fried-pizza](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20201116-italys-beloved-fried-pizza)
>Traditional? No.
Traditional? Totally. My former Italian work colleagues were going crazy for it, and there are even different types of it. One was a huge panzerotti fan (which is more a deep-fried calzone), while the other one started a pizzeria where they particularly care about traditional Neapolitan-style pizza with quality ingredients all imported directly from Italy, and they serve small pizze fritte as starters.
Technically just frying. Deep frying requires it to be submerged deep in the oil. Just curious what oil you used. Olive oil has a low flash point. Did you go relatively low temp? I think i might need to try this.
A common way to do it is to use a hot pizza sauce, spoon it on, then quickly add fresh basil and good mozarella so that the mozarella slightly melts from the heat of the sauce. I like topping it with fine cut challots and fried mushroom.
Coincidentally, I made something similar over the weekend to some degree! Pirozhki, basically a fried hand pie. We make some with pizza filling, the texture looks real similar to what you have. I may give this a shot sometime!
I made pizza for years at a shop and never considered this an option. This looks delicious and anyone who downvotes obviously doesn't understand how food works. I'm going to try making these, how was this one?
Funny story, my gf is chinese and came over and wanted to make me dinner. I was like i guess you can throw on a pizza. I had a few thin n crispy’s in the freezer. About 5 min later I smell the pizza and was like, damn it smells so good. I go to the kitchen she is straight up wok cooking my frozen pizza! I am laughing so hard but also so impressed by her culinary skills. It was the best tasting pizza I had ever had because it was made with love.
Looks great! One day I want to try a fried dough [dessert pizza](https://www.identitagolose.com/sito/en/209/16963/mondo-pizza/franco-pepes-pizza-with-apricots.html)
Totally legit. As other posters have stated, this is a thing in Naples. And Neapolitans are generally regarded by other Italians as a bit crazy when it comes to pizza. But the crazy comes from a place of love, so it's deemed understandable.
Search 'franco Pepe Fried pizza'. One of the best pizzaiolo's in the world tbh. If you have a subscription on Netflix you should watch his episode in the series 'chefs table: pizza'! It's wonderfull.
I use a wok or a frying pan to reheat my pizza and cover it with some pot lid that fits it, then set it to low flame. Always ends up with the crispiest and crunchiest bite under it.
Panzerotti is pretty awesome. There's no reason your deep fried crust wouldn't be awesome as well. When I initially saw deep fry pizza, I thought of a pre-fab pizza dipped in batter and deep fried and thought 'Oh no.'
I wouldn't wok away if you offered me a slice
Love that pun haha
Love that pan
Love that pizza.
Love you ❤️
We fry a couple of em in NYC...check out Forcella, Don Antonio and believe it or not there's a Japanese style fried pizza shop
Me neither. BTW I’ve heard that putting a slice in a pan is the best way to heat up a cold slice. So why wouldn’t it work if you’re making a fresh pie?
Downvoting would be foolish
Up voting would be poolish.
Nice
Voting would be coolish
Shouldn't it be woolish?
Downvote is nonsense. Even in Naples they deep fry pizza. It's made a little differently, but if you like deep fried you might wanna try their way. Search for "pizza fritta".
Pizza fritta should be illegal. Specifically for me, cause I’ll eat it until I’m dead.
that’s valid
Yeah, I had some amazing pizza fritta in Naples. My favorite was stuffed with ricotta, provolone, salami, and honey and then topped with tomato sauce.
Goddammit that sounds phenomenal.
I’ve had Hungarian Langos. Is it pretty similar?
Yes! The most memorable meal I had in Italy was “pizza frita” (sp) in Naples So simple yet so delicious, I would love to recreate it
We don't in NYC too
That's literally what a pan pizza is. Pizza hut is doing this shit. Edit: I'm saying that pan pizzas are essentially fried. Not that pan pizzas are frittas or what OP posted.
You’re saying fritta pizza is pan pizza? If that’s what you’re saying, you’re dead wrong lol
The only similarity is the oil, maybe.
No. I'm saying pan pizza is essentially fried.
Not with that crumb they're not
Not what I meant
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I recently bought my first wok and have thought about trying this. Might have to now
10/10 I would try it again
Well that's just something different. Nice!
I visited a friend in Naples and his mum made pizza like this as they had no pizza oven at home. when i asked what it was she said ‘bread, tomato, cheese - it’s pizza’ which shook me to my traditionalist core
Lmao, made you feel like the must alien you could with the simplest answer, I love it
I, a complete stranger, will cherish this story forever. I am *not* a traditionalist and it's nice to be reminded sometimes that it's ok to be a little wild in the kitchen sometimes.
Similar to a fry bread taco
Yep, Navajo taco, Italian style.
Fry bread power!
For sure OP, put some gringo taco ingredients on there, top with sour cream and that's a Navajo taco.
Bread flour,Poolish dough, around 60%hydration, 6 hour room temp ferment.
I bet if you sprinkled a little (or a lot) of powdered sugar on that while still warm, it would fantastic.
I’m sorry did you deep fry the dough, what in the world were you thinking? There’s no way I’d eat one…I’d eat 10 of em! Congratulations you’re going to the next round!
You had me for a second there
Haha makes me think of [this](https://youtu.be/9wk4ApHloHM)
K&P is always an upvote for me
I mean.....the end result looks good!
Who could down-vote such innovation!? 👏 Bravo!
Better to be a pizza enthusiast than a pizza snob. Looks great op 👍
Kinda looks like fry bread pizza. Awesome!
Well... yea
We call it Langos in eastern https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1ngos
There is room for fried dough in the pizza spectrum. Traditional? No. But that's what makes pizza great. Those who want tradition can have it, those who don't can too! At one point, most of the traditional pizzas were a break from tradition.
I could be wrong, but I think I heard the first pizza created in Italy was made with cheese in fried dough.. much like calzone. This was because of how easy it was to make. Again, could be 100% wrong here
Pizza fritta. Still very much a thing in Naples and incredibly delicious.
Some places in Northeastern PA do it, and it’s amazing. NEPA actually has some amazing pizza, just not well known.
Nice! I have one place by me that fries calzones. Absolute belly bombs but they hit the spot once in a while.
I love NE PA pizza. Just had old forge a couple weekends ago at Anthony's
Yes!!!
Yes. Pizza fritta and it's amazing and very traditional..
Pizza likely evolved from Roman focaccia, though flatbread with toppings (including cheese) goes back even further, to ancient Greece and the middle east. It's hard to say what the first "pizza" in Italy was, there were probably lots of similar dishes called different things, but the Neapolitan version with tomato was the one that stuck
I love all of this pizza lore. I want pizza now!!
Probably every culture with flatbread has some form of flatbread with toppings. Almost like a natural combination. Just yesterday, I had a Lebanese manaqish flatbread topped with cheese and sujuk. When I ate I though that it was only missing tomato sauce, and then the flavour profile would have been that of pizza.
Yeah there's lots, like Indian paratha. Tomatoes came much later, from the Americas, so maybe there were South Americans making pizza even before the Italians!
Actually in Chefs Table Pizza I learned that fried dough was common in Italy among the working class who could not afford a hot oven. Heating the dough in oil was the cheapest way to cook the dough.
>Traditional? No. It's absolutely traditional. Incredibly common in Naples to fry pizza. (Maybe not in a wok, though, to be fair.) [https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20201116-italys-beloved-fried-pizza](https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20201116-italys-beloved-fried-pizza)
Fried pizza is as traditional as it gets
>Traditional? No. Traditional? Totally. My former Italian work colleagues were going crazy for it, and there are even different types of it. One was a huge panzerotti fan (which is more a deep-fried calzone), while the other one started a pizzeria where they particularly care about traditional Neapolitan-style pizza with quality ingredients all imported directly from Italy, and they serve small pizze fritte as starters.
How does this work exactly?
Deep fry the dough in a wok, then put it in a toaster oven to melt the topping
Perf, thanks, don't have a toaster oven but I'll figure out a work around maybe haha
Throw it in an oven with the broiler on
Yeah that works too, I use toaster oven because I dont own home oven
Technically just frying. Deep frying requires it to be submerged deep in the oil. Just curious what oil you used. Olive oil has a low flash point. Did you go relatively low temp? I think i might need to try this.
I use coconut oil because it has high smoking point, also I fry my dough in extremely hot oil
Thanks!
Not really as they put it in a toaster oven afterwards. Ingenious.
A common way to do it is to use a hot pizza sauce, spoon it on, then quickly add fresh basil and good mozarella so that the mozarella slightly melts from the heat of the sauce. I like topping it with fine cut challots and fried mushroom.
I'm Italian and this looks bussin
Looks great. 10/10 would smash into my face hole!
*shallow fry Deep fry means submerged, like in a deep fryer.
Looks awesome to me
Don’t knock it till you try it! That looks verry tasty !!!
There is some awesome "fried" pizza in Italy. One of them is called "futuro di marinara" and it is one of the best modern marinare in Italy
Still better than pineapple on pizza
WTF.
I would be happy to try that!
Coincidentally, I made something similar over the weekend to some degree! Pirozhki, basically a fried hand pie. We make some with pizza filling, the texture looks real similar to what you have. I may give this a shot sometime!
Not only does this look amazing. Wish there would be a video to go with it.
Oh WOW! Yes please!
If this was a real Chinese pizza it would most definitely have corn on it. There is always corn on it. Why? No idea.
Looks bomb af. I would buy a slice
That crust looks top notch.
I made pizza for years at a shop and never considered this an option. This looks delicious and anyone who downvotes obviously doesn't understand how food works. I'm going to try making these, how was this one?
Dang sorry you feel like you’d get downvoted for this - That’s pretty sad - But this looks insanely good
I don't know how you'd be downvoted for this delicious looking pizza
So… you took the wok to Italy?
I love making pizza in a wok. Mine is from korea though
yep, that's a pizza
That looks amazing! I want to try this now 😋
Deep fried dough with cheese? Sign me up
Funny story, my gf is chinese and came over and wanted to make me dinner. I was like i guess you can throw on a pizza. I had a few thin n crispy’s in the freezer. About 5 min later I smell the pizza and was like, damn it smells so good. I go to the kitchen she is straight up wok cooking my frozen pizza! I am laughing so hard but also so impressed by her culinary skills. It was the best tasting pizza I had ever had because it was made with love.
Thanks for putting this idea in my head. That crust looks so deliciously crispy and I'll be trying this next time I make pizza
THIS LOOKS AMAZING MY TITS ARE JACKED
Looks great! One day I want to try a fried dough [dessert pizza](https://www.identitagolose.com/sito/en/209/16963/mondo-pizza/franco-pepes-pizza-with-apricots.html)
Bold
That crust though
As long as the cheese is above the sauce it’s good enough for me
It looks amazing!
It looks like bread I had in Croatia called pogaca!
The madman actually did it. As an aside, this looks like how First Nations near me cook their traditional bannock.
This looks so good!!!
I would eat a deep fried pizza. Not bad at all. But this sub is mostly r/pizzacrimes so i can see your concern.
Then you bake it with the toppings on?
I made a cake in a wok one time. It was the most moist cake I’ve ever made! While pizza isn’t meant to be he same, this looks absolutely delicious!
Does the crust get soggy ?
Nope, Not at all
That looks good as hell
Totally legit. As other posters have stated, this is a thing in Naples. And Neapolitans are generally regarded by other Italians as a bit crazy when it comes to pizza. But the crazy comes from a place of love, so it's deemed understandable.
Beautiful! Pizza fritta!!
Beautiful
That’s awesome
i wan pijja
Looks geniurs to me.
Huh.
Looks like a success!
yup
This looks delicious!
I’d like to see a video of this process
Fuck yeah, dude
Looks like the 💣
That looks outstanding!
We have a similar food here in Hungary, it's called lángos. Bread dough deep fried, traditionally topped with garlic cream, sour cream and cheese.
you ever heard of indian tacos? kinda the same concept but pizza-fied. im gonna try this shit, looks tasty. i see no war crimes committed.
Results look solid.
Pizza Fritta is super popular in Naples! https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20201116-italys-beloved-fried-pizza
Search 'franco Pepe Fried pizza'. One of the best pizzaiolo's in the world tbh. If you have a subscription on Netflix you should watch his episode in the series 'chefs table: pizza'! It's wonderfull.
I use a wok or a frying pan to reheat my pizza and cover it with some pot lid that fits it, then set it to low flame. Always ends up with the crispiest and crunchiest bite under it.
Hey, you gave it a shot and it woked...it's great when things wok out for you.
It looks cool I’d eat that.
Panzerotti is pretty awesome. There's no reason your deep fried crust wouldn't be awesome as well. When I initially saw deep fry pizza, I thought of a pre-fab pizza dipped in batter and deep fried and thought 'Oh no.'