What other fruit ( pineapple is wellknown ) would tast good on a pizza? That was the question i asked during lunch at school. The results off that class…
Passionfruit, watermelon and Strawberry were the favorite ones to be tasted.
Bad idee was kiwi, apple and cherrys.
What do you think?
Tomato :-)
Damn. You beat me to it
:-)
Local place has bruschetta tomatoes as a topping, so good
I don’t believe you.
Fig with prosciutto
Fig and Pig is a great combo for pizza!
Peppers.
Olives
Pear works well on white pizza
Possibly with walnuts and blue cheese.
Apples work well on white pizza as well. Perhaps OP only tried with red sauce, which I imagine wouldn’t be very good.
But indeed there’s a local pizza place around where I live that does a simple olive oil base topped with creamy cheese, tart apples, arugula, and drizzled with balsamic glaze. It’s utterly fantastic
Yup, the arugula/balsamic combo is the same way I’ve enjoyed pear pizza. Delicious.
…tomatoes, olives, peppers, zucchini…
Passive aggressive ‘All your veggies are actually fruits’ energy here. I love it :)
This has been a regular debate in my household and I’m with you on this.
Jackfruit! You can use it to make a mean vegan pulled “pork”, it’d be great on a BBQ pizza.
As someone who loves Jackfruit, i think the actual fruit bulb of one is much too sweet for a pizza topping.
What you are talking about is actually a byproduct of the fruit which is called the rags. Which can be cooked and eaten, as well as the seeds. Although in my opinion the seeds are much tastier than the rags, just boil them till soft. get yourself a fresh jackfruit and try it.
I think it’s great that we can find ways to eat more parts of the jackfruit, but the fact that most Americans think that jackfruit is just the rags and not the actual fruit means that they never had a fresh one and instead fell for a marketing ploy.
Is that what the whole thing is with jackfruit burgers and pulled jackfruit? They’re using the byproducts?
I guess you can call it byproducts. The bulbs have a strange creamy texture on the inside, but the outside is also quite fibrous. You wouldn’t make a burger from that.
You might be thinking of a durian? The bulbs are hollow once you remove the seed in them.
Never saw one in a store tnh. No clue how they taste
I don’t think it’s a marketing ploy, it’s just not explained in great detail on the can where exactly it comes from. It’s not like anyone could possibly benefit from people not knowing what jackfruit is.
Its a ploy in that people assume they are eating fruit and not some kind of pulp that’s next to the actual fruit. Jackfruit rags don’t sound too tasty so they leave it out purposefully. I understand but wouldn’t mind if they invented another word to use so if I actually serve jackfruit fruit to people it’s not weird for them by how different it is from the rags.
I still think it’s strange that the seeds aren’t also marketed as edible. Its kinda like potato once boiled so I guess potatoes are just easier to use in a large scale.
It’s only popular (afaik) in America as a meat substitute, not because it’s “fruit.” Vegetarians don’t care what part of the fruit it comes from as long as it’s serving its purpose, and I can’t imagine anyone being upset when they find out there’s a sweet part to it too. I guess the word “ploy” just implies, like, a conspiracy or something to me and I can’t imagine who would perpetrate something so banal. Can’t be the jackfruit producers/distributors, they could only benefit from more people knowing more about their product.
Tomato is pretty popular in a sauce form, not a fan of the fruit myself though.
In seriousness, I could see pear being good. Pears on a grilled cheese sandwich is fantastic.
Local pizza place near me has a pear pizza that carries the name of the restaurant (so they must be proud of it?). It is:
- fresh mozzarella
- shaved pear
- caramelized onions
- hot honey (I think this means honey with a little red chili in it)
- pistachios
They offer/suggest adding prosciutto to the pizza (after baking), which we usually do.
It’s damn fine.
I’ve seen thin slices of apple or pear with something like goat cheese.
Black Olives (or green, either way).
Try kalamatas.
Need to go look that up. No id what that is
Why is apple a bad idea? Apple with pork and cheese is delicious :)
My guess is that it depends on the apple type.
Some apples are better than other to make apple pies without making it soggy, same issue could apply to pizzas.
That’s a good point. I haven’t cooked anything with apple that could go soggy for years, so I hadn’t thought of that. Pulled pork and apple pizza is sounding nice though :)
My local favorite is apple slices+bacon, it’s the best.
People put American cheese on goddam apple pie for Christ’s sake, apple on a pizza sounds waaaay better.
Apple sauce instead of tomato based sauce, shred the pork and cheese, would go really well with jerk pork
I can’t decide if that would be too sweet with the apple sauce base. That might have to be an experiment :)
Banana is a common topping in Sweden. Add some curry and peanuts while you’re at it.
Shrimp and banana curry pizza would be pretty epic
Squash and zuchinni
TIL squash are fruit like tomatoes.
Not only that, they’re all berries.
New info for me to
Delicious slime.
Tasty tasty plant snot
White pie with peach, burrata, basil, and balsamic vinegar.
On of my local pizzerias has one with apple and it’s actually one of my favorite!
But my number one is the “indian”, which is basically chicken, curry, pineapple and raisin
I’ve made apple crumble pizza a few times, can recommend!
How is the apple done on the pizza - is it apple slices, wedges, maybe cubes? I’m so curious about this now, it seems so unique!
They are cut in little cubes, along with bacon, duck breast and a fried egg. It is indeed unique and delicious
Oh my god that sounds amazing! I’m very jealous!
Figs are amazing.
