Deep Fried Pizza

[GlorifiedRice]

Deep Fried Pizza from Napoli!

http://fxcuisine.com/default.asp?Display=83

No !!!!!

OMG can you imagine the grease in the crust alone!

[SuzySushi]

And I thought deep-fried Mars bars were bad enough!

[FXcuisine]

Thanks for your interest in my article! It was nominated as 'Health Food of the Day' and 'Heart Attack Waiting to Happen' by fellow bloggers yesterday. But this is a traditional working class dish in Napoli. You definitely need an exhausting occupation to be able to afford the calorie explosion.

The guy invited me into his shop and let me watch him prepare the pizza fritta, then sat me at his marble work bench to eat, while making conversation (I speak Italian quite well) with him and a pal who came for pizza. A very nice moment indeed!

Edited June 12, 2007 by FXcuisine (log)

[rooftop1000]

Yeah yeah just like a calzone...a good proper deep fried calzone...

Mmm now I want a calzone

tracey

[FXcuisine]

Yeah yeah just like a calzone...a good proper deep fried calzone...

Mmm now I want a calzone

tracey

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Not exactly like a calzone, which is a single disc of dough folded in half and baked in the oven. Here we have to disc of dough, which make a flat thick disc which is deep-fried. But similar in other respects, you are right!

[nonblonde007]

Mmmmmmmmmmm. That looks so good to me! I can almost taste the crispy/chewy crust, and oozing inner deliciousness...........I want that, Now!

Sort of reminds me of my grandmom's deep fried yeast dough pies, filled with everything from fruit to, yes, pizza stuff. Yummy

[Duncan]

The deep fried pizza predates the mars bar as a staple of Scottish chip shops, but unlike the one shown here we are talking deep frozen, dipped in batter and fried, and on one memorable occasion I remember they forgot to take it out of the plastic wrapping before battering and frying it. Ick.

The Neapolitan version really does look like health food by comparison.

[takadi]

If everything were deep-fried, there would be no more wars or poverty..

[nonblonde007]

Amen!

Perhaps that is why everyone in the south is soooo laidback, friendly and perpetually happy. I think I must dig out the deep-frier and have pizza for dinner.

[orangeman747]

that sounds amazing! but at the same time one of those things that after 3 bites you would be really full.

[VPF]

Looks like a "high-end" pizza puff to me.

[Stigand]

Or mozzarella in carozza, with added pizza sauce on the inside.

[Beebs]

Yum! That looks like it would be delicious next to a side of drunken debauchery!

[hummingbirdkiss]

omg now I have to make one!!

[DTBarton]

I've always wanted to go to Naples. This is just another reason why!

[phaelon56]

Can't be much worse than an empanada - can it? Funny... there's a business in my town called Pizza Frite. They have a hugely popular stand at the NY State Fair every year that sells two foot long hunks of fried dough sprinkled with granulated sugar.

And we also have a few neighborhood pizza shops that sell "luna's". It's a full size pizza that looks exactly like the stuffed pizza frite in the linked article but it gets brushed with olive oil and then baked like a regular pizza. And it's incredibly greasy. But tasty

[Andrew Fenton]

Neapolitan friggitorie (fry palaces) are a little piece of heaven. After hitting up a couple on trips to Naples, I fantasized about opening one up in the US. (Cf fxcuisine's post on that thread as well).

Pizza fritta is only the start; deep-fried zucchini and eggplant are also wonderful. Neapolitans know from fried food!

[Kent D]

Maybe I could whip up some tiny little ones...or would that defeat the whole caloric concept?