What fruit is tasty on a pizza?
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
:-)
Me too thanks
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.
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
Honestly even pineapple is fine on white pizza. I don't usually like it much with red tomato sauce, but that's honestly more because of the tomato sauce. I'll absolutely devour a white pizza with pineapple and ham.
Yup, the arugula/balsamic combo is the same way I've enjoyed pear pizza. Delicious.
Olives
...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.
When tomatoes, olives, capsicum and zucchini are 'fruit' then the definition isn't serving it's purpose for anyone discussing cooking or eating or procuring those things. It's a different meaning of the word that's useful in particularly narrow settings but useless outside of those settings. The only reason people like to repeat the claims of 'technically a fruit' for various vegetables, outside of the context of maybe agriculture or scientific research or horticulture is because it's amusingly counterintuitive and contrarian which is exactly why it should be disregarded.
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.
I've grown up eating unripe jackfruit as a vegetable, cooked in coconut milk along with a bit of protein, be it some pork or some dried fish. Never really taken a close look at which part of the jackfruit is being used though, but it's the part with the seeds. I enjoy finding the surprise (cooked) seeds since they're really nutty and complements well with the rest of the flavors of the dish.
Anyways, my point is that unripe jackfruit can make for a good savory topping for pizza.
What's the best way to cut and handle jackfruit without feeling like you just fingered a jar of gorilla glue afterwards
Never saw one in a store tnh. No clue how they taste
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:
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.
Pear goes great with strong cheeses in general so its probably going to work.
Pear and gorgonzola is a typical combination.
The tomato.
That's about it.
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.
I'd call it common as in commonly offered, less so as commonly ordered. In my experience, at least.
Shrimp and banana curry pizza would be pretty epic
Tomato
Edit: foiled again by quick lemmers
foiled again by quick lemmers
There's a post from two days ago saying tomatoes, you weren't foiled, you just didn't bother to read the comments before posting.
White pie with peach, burrata, basil, and balsamic vinegar.
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
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!
Sounds good. Need to try.
Figs are amazing.
Pineapple
Gimme some figs on a pulled pork bbq slice with thinly sliced red onions on top, that'd be awesome
Strawberry works, but you've said that already. I believe banana is used in some Nordic country too (not 100% about this)
Olives on a pizza are fantastic if you don't hate olives. Otherwise they may not taste very good at all.
Pair it with feta and capicola for a great time.
True
Lemon (and/or lime) makes almost everything better when utilized properly, spicy sausage with lemon ricotta for example. I bet you could make a ridiculously delicious pizza with preserved lemon too. Lime would pair well with Mexican-inspired or Asian-inspired pizzas.
I’ve had pizza with mozzarella, lemon, olive oil, and arugula on it. So good.
I had Hawaiian with kiwi! It was good
They call it a Pizza New Zealand at my local pizza place, and it's pretty good!
Sounds intriguing
artichoke
Pear, gorgonzola and arugula. It was delicious. I ate the whole thing and now I'm ashamed of myself.
Pineapple remains the only sweet fruit I've ventured on a pizza but when you asked this my first guess would have been apple, especially because it pairs so well with pork so I'm surprised that made it to the bad idea category. Did anyone expand on why? I would have thought a pizza with almost any kind of pork but especially thick cut ham would be enhanced by a very sparing quantitiy of thin apple slices. I'd bet even some non-traditional cuts of pork might end up working well, like some thin strips of pork belly.
I've had a BBQ pulled pork pizza w/ applesauce on the side for dipping and it was amazing. Too bad that place closed.
The spicy Cajun bread sticks they had were great, too. Especially as a broke student because they were like $2 and practically a solid pound of filling carbs.
Plum with chicken and some bryndza (sheep's milk cottage cheese) was one of the best pizzas I've ever had.
Also apple, tuna, bryndza.
I'm just really longing for some bryndza right now.
Durian is amazing.
My nose says fuck you
Mangoes.
I thought it would be bad but it is supposedly a must try in Guimaras island in the Philippines. Im not a fan of dessert pizzas but this one was surprisingly good.
Isn't mango super wet on pizza?
It wasnt. The pizza didnt have time to become soggy, it was gone so fast.
Mandarin orange slices.
Pomegranate pips work well in most salty dishes, roasted apple is great with a strong, soft cheese.
Apple and bleu cheese is one of the greatest combos known to the human palate. Would be great on a pizza with something really savory to balance.
Thinly sliced peach works alright with a blue cheese and balsamic reduction
Oh that sounds amazing.
Melons (not watermelons, these things) ought to taste good. Pizza usually has ham on it and "prosciutto con melone" is a well-known dish.
many dont believe me, but grapes. They taste generally really gold when cooked.
kiwi works fine as a topping. i used to live next to a place that had a whole variety of fruit pizzas.
I've had a pretty decent pizza with peach on it.
Durian
Not a fruit i know, but if you like pineapple on pizza you might also like pickled onions on pizza
Peach. I have eaten a chicken and peach pizza once.
Dates
In Home Ec we made a fruit pizza, with a sweet crust... and it was amazing. Kind of a bit more like actual pie than pizza. Wish I had the recipe, unfortunately the teacher died a couple decades ago.
Sounds like a job for a necromancer
i think a shredded coconut might work well, if your pizza didn't have cheese on it (a vegan pizza for example)
lemon peel (maybe even yuzu peel) could work quite well shaved over the crust
Cheese
Which reminds me I need to tend to my cheese tree.
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Dr. Seuss
No one’s said pineapple yet? Hawaiian is a staple pizza variety.
Literally on the original post.
That is id one off my favorites to do on a pizza