When we began our Pizza Quest, one of the founding ideas was to see if we could identify brilliant pizza pies that we had never tried, and add them to our repertoire of great pizzas. Think of it like this, imagine we are menu testing for our personal pizza restaurant, and we only want pies that we truly love. None of the “usual” pies, just really brilliant, tasty, and moreish pizza pies. Stop the presses! The Mortadella & Pistachio pizza is the reason we went on this quest. First of all, it has just a few ingredients. Second, if you have never had pistachio pesto, you haven’t lived. Third, when you discover how the acidity of pickled shallots and a squeeze of lemon juice creates pizza umami, then you will understand. For our pizza, we substituted Genoa Salami for Mortadella which was not available, made fresh pistachio pesto which is absolutely delicious, and made a pile of pickled shallots (red wine vinegar, sugar, & peppercorns). The cheeses are shredded mozzarella and fresh mozzarella. This is a 5-star pizza
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