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?
The tomato.
That’s about it.
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.
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.
Fig with prosciutto
Fig and Pig is a great combo for pizza!
Pineapple
Gimme some figs on a pulled pork bbq slice with thinly sliced red onions on top, that’d be awesome
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
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
Pepperoni.
is that a fruit?
Technically, it can be, depending on the type of pepperoni.
In parts of Europe, such as Germany, a pepperoni is a pickled pepper, not the salami named after it.
(And peppers are fruits of a capsicum plant.)
pepperonis are paprika, wouldn’t that make it a vegetable? i think OP is aiming at a more common definition of fruit
Peppers are the fruit of the plant. They’re what’s made after the flowers were pollinated and have seeds. They’re also sometimes sweet and not always so spicy.
Of course, there’s the botanical definition and culinary definition and there’s some overlap. The most famous would be a tomato, which is also a fruit and a vegetable from different points of view.
What’s mind-blowing to think about is that a pepper is not just a fruit but also technically a berry.
In cooking, peppers are used as a fruit, a vegetable, and even a spice. (Depending on the pepper variety.) So, anyone classifying it as any of those things is right. 👍
(Wikipedia mentions all this too.) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_pepper
it might be the fruit of the plant, but peppers are botanically speaking vegetables, and more closely related to tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants, than apples and oranges. OP is asking for fruits other than pineapple to put on a pizza, not how far the definition of what a fruit is can be stretched. you might be partly correct, but not in the context of what this thread is about.
What are you, a cop?!
…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.
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.
Pear and gorgonzola is a typical combination.
Pear goes great with strong cheeses in general so its probably going to work.
I’ve seen thin slices of apple or pear with something like goat cheese.
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
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.
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.
Never saw one in a store tnh. No clue how they taste
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.
