Seafood pizza#Pizza ai frutti di mare
{{Short description|Variety of pizza with seafood toppings}}
{{Infobox food
| name = Seafood pizza
| image = Seafood pizza (1).jpg
| caption = A seafood pizza with clams, shrimp, and octopus
| country = Italy
| main_ingredient = Seafood
}}
{{Pizza}}
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Seafood pizza is a pizza prepared with seafood as a primary ingredient. Many types of seafood ingredients in fresh, frozen or canned forms may be used on seafood pizza. Some retail pizza chains, as well as smaller restaurants, offer seafood pizzas to consumers.
Ingredients
Various seafood can be used to prepare the dish, such as fish (including salmon, tuna, anchovy), shellfish, clams, scallops, mussels, shrimp, squid, lobster, and scungilli (sea snail), among others. Imitation seafood may also be used. Fresh or frozen seafood may be used, and some versions use canned seafood, such as canned tuna.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQbokQjiCFcC&pg=PA37 | title=The Book of Pizzas and Italian Breads | publisher=Penguin | author=Bush, Sarah | year=1989 | page=37 | isbn=0895867885}}
Varieties
={{lang|it|Pizza alla napoletana}}=
{{lang|it|Pizza alla napoletana}} is topped with tomato, mozzarella, anchovies, and olive oil (thus, what in Naples is called {{lang|it|pizza romana}}, in Rome is called {{lang|it|pizza napoletana}}).{{Cn|date=February 2025}}
={{lang|it|Pizza ai frutti di mare}}=
=Tuna and onions pizza=
A popular italian variety is the tuna and onions pizza ({{lang|it|pizza con tonno e cipolle}}), topped with tomato, mozzarella, canned tuna, red onions slices, and olive oil. This is also one of the most popular varieties of pizza in Brazil.{{cite web |url=https://www.mashed.com/1358206/tuna-fans-flip-brazils-pizza-de-atum |last=Huddleston |first=Justina |title=Tuna Fans Will Flip For Brazil's Pizza De Atum |work=Mashed |date=2023-08-07 |accessdate=2024-04-01}}
={{lang|it|Pizza pescatore}}=
A variety of seafood pizza is {{lang|it|pizza pescatore}} ('fisherman's pizza'), which is prepared with mussels and squid.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UTKasP9pTo4C&pg=PA65 | title=Mystical Places and Marvelous Meals | publisher=iUniverse | author=Getz. Al | year=2005 | pages=65 | isbn=0595345913}}
=Commercial varieties=
==Chain restaurants==
Domino's Pizza offers a seafood pizza in Vietnam, which (as of December 2012) was the company's "best-selling product in Vietnam".{{cite web |url=http://english.thesaigontimes.vn/26936/Domino%E2%80%99s-Pizza-tailoring-to-local-tastes.html |title=Domino's Pizza tailoring to local tastes |work=The Saigon Times |date=December 7, 2012 |accessdate=2 September 2014 |last=Phi |first=Hoang }}
Pizza Hut has offered a seafood pizza in Malaysia and India called "Seafood symphony". The Indian Pizza Hut version was prepared with fresh seafood from the waters of Kochi, India.
==Smaller companies==
Barleycorn Pizza in Owego, New York, developed a specialty seafood pizza prepared with garlic, crab legs, shrimp, and scallops.
Benedetti's Pizza in Manzanillo, Mexico, specializes in seafood pizza, including those prepared with anchovy and smoked oysters.
Ciro's Restaurant & Lounge in Mahopac, New York, developed a seafood pizza prepared with clams, shrimp, mussels, and scungilli.
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana in New Haven, Connecticut, is well known for its white clam pizza, featuring fresh littleneck clams.{{cite web |title=50 States, 50 Pizzas |url=http://www.zagat.com/b/50-state-50-pizzas#7 |work=Zagat |accessdate=22 October 2013 |date=September 24, 2013 }}{{cite web |title=101 Best Pizzas in America |url=http://www.thedailymeal.com/101-best-pizzas-america/10222013?page=0,1 |website=The Daily Meal |accessdate=4 September 2014 }}
Ko Olina's Pizza Corner restaurant in Kapolei, Hawaii, developed a pizza called "Original Hawaiian Poke Pizza", which uses poke, a raw seafood salad, on pizza. The poke is placed atop the pizza after the pizza has been cooked. Another dish the restaurant serves is a seafood pizza that includes lobster cream sauce in its preparation.
==World's most expensive pizza==
The world's most expensive pizza listed by Guinness World Records is a {{convert|12|in|cm|adj=on}} seafood pizza called the "C6" that is prepared at Steveston Pizza Co. restaurant in Steveston, British Columbia (in the Metro Vancouver area) which costs C$450. The pizza includes lobster, caviar, tiger prawns, and smoked salmon. Each slice is worth C$45, because it is divided into 10 slices. It has to be pre-ordered one day in advance. The title for world's most expensive pizza was previously held by a C$178 pizza prepared with white truffle by Gordon Ramsay. {{As of|2014|9|post=,}} Guinness World Records still lists the Gordon Ramsay pizza on their website.{{cite web |url=http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/extraordinary/most-expensive-pizza |title=Most Expensive pizza |publisher=Guinness World Records |accessdate=4 September 2014 }}
There are several instances of more expensive pizzas, such as the US$4,200 "Pizza Royale 007" at Haggis restaurant in Glasgow, Scotland, which has caviar, lobster and is topped with 24-carat gold leaf, and the US$1,000 caviar pizza made by Nino's Bellissima pizzeria in New York City, New York.{{cite magazine |url=http://hauteliving.com/2010/03/top-five-most-expensive-pizzas-in-the-world/29487/ |title=Top Five Most Expensive Pizzas in The World |magazine=Haute Living |date=March 11, 2010 |accessdate=9 September 2014 |last=Shaw, Bryan}} However, these are not officially recognized by Guinness World Records.{{Cn|date=February 2025}}
See also
{{Portal|Italy|Food}}
References
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{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2004/07/12/stories/2004071201750300.htm | archive-url=https://archive.today/20140903001011/http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2004/07/12/stories/2004071201750300.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=September 3, 2014 | title=If it is cheese, it must be pizza | work=The Hindu | date=July 12, 2004 | accessdate=2 September 2014 | author=Sharma, Priyadarsshini}}
{{cite web | url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/life-video/video-ctv-vancouver-450-pizza-makes-world-record-books/article18239913/ | title=Check out this seafood pizza that's $450 | work=The Globe and Mail |publisher=originally published at CTVNews | date=April 28, 2014 | accessdate=2 September 2014}}
{{cite web | url=http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/450-pizza-b-c-pizzeria-holds-record-for-most-expensive-pie-1.1793807 | title=$450 pizza: B.C. pizzeria holds record for most expensive pie | publisher=CTV News | date=April 26, 2014 | accessdate=2 September 2014 | author=(Staff)}}
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Further reading
- {{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vhGYNwAACAAJ | title=Acceptability of Seafood Pizza | publisher=East Carolina University | author=Ann Evans, Joyce | year=1986}}
External links
{{Commons category}}
- [http://www.huliq.com/10061/seafood-pizza-ideas-chef-wanted-anne-burrell "Seafood pizza ideas from Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell"]. Paula Duffy. 2013.