Pepperoni, what is it? Facts, recipes, photos

Beautiful, such a delicious Italian word pepperoni, what kind of association does it cause for a modern philistine? Pizza is probably, first of all. More experienced will say - sausage, and experts will correct - pepper. So all the same, pepperoni - what is it?

Meaning of the word

Pepperone in Italian means spicy peppers, pepperoni - plural - "peppers".

Italian chefs working in America, pepperoni began to call sharp sausage type salami. Italians cooked them usually from pork meat, in the American variation there are both beef and poultry.

To order sharp sausages in their homeland, you should ask for salame piccante.

Pepperoni is one of the most popular ingredients for making pizza, which has the same name and often goes into the sales leaders. In Italy, pizza with these sausages in the composition is called pizza alla diavola.

Sausage Recipe

So, sausage pepperoni. What is it, we have found out. I wanted to try this little salami? Go to Italy! No? Then a shopping tour of the shops of his native city, and suddenly lucky? Long and, perhaps, expensive?

Oh well. Let's make salami ourselves.

You will need:

• Three kilograms of pork;
• One kilogram of beef;
• A large salt - three tablespoons and one more tea;
• Three tablespoons of ground paprika;
• Two tablespoons of cayenne pepper ;
• One tablespoon of ground aniseed seeds;
• One teaspoon of sugar;
• Half a teaspoon of ascorbic acid;
• A teaspoon of chopped garlic;
• A glass of red dry wine;
• Pork chereva length of one hundred eighty centimeters.

Now let's start cooking.

1. First, wash the meat, cut into pieces and lightly frost it. Make minced meat in a meat grinder (separately pig and beef).
2. In a deep bowl, mix all the ingredients and leave in a cool place for a day.
3. Prepare the cherevoy, twice thoroughly washing it, with an interval of thirty minutes.
4. Fill the strew with minced meat, let out excess air. Tie should be after twenty-five centimeters.
5. Cut two sausages and hang them for about six to eight weeks.

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

How to cook pepperoni

Earlier we mentioned that this puzzling word is also called pizza. Let's talk about her now.

Pepperoni pizza is quite easy to prepare. In all, it is necessary that the dough, pepperoni sausages, mozzarella cheese, tomato sauce.

1. The dough can be bought, or you can cook it yourself. You will need: warm water (seventy milliliters), yeast (one teaspoon), salt (a quarter teaspoon), sugar (half a teaspoon), olive oil (half a tablespoon), wheat flour (one hundred and sixty grams).
2. First make the spoon from 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 it with sauce.
4. Lay the sliced cheese, and on it thin slices of sausage (perhaps homemade) and send to the oven, heated to a temperature of two hundred and twenty degrees. In half an hour pepperoni ready! Bon Appetit!

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

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

Pepperoni sauce

It would be logical to assume that the sauce will include a spicy pepper, and then, as they say, to taste. But no!

The name is so firmly entrenched for sharp salami that we will cook sauce with sausage!

For the basis you need mayonnaise (one tablespoon) and cream cheese cream (two hundred grams), and for pepperoni taste (half a kilo).

Sausage must be cut into very small pieces, grind the cheese on a grater, mix all ingredients thoroughly, put them in a mold and bake in the oven for twenty minutes.

This sauce is served warm, and what exactly, let it decide your taste ...

Now you will not be confused by the question: "Pepperoni - what is it?" You can not only answer, but also treat the interlocutor to the same pepperone, thus gaining the laurels of an exquisite cook!