I'd like to make pepperoni pizza next week and am looking for meat that tastes like Pizza Hut's Pepperoni Pizza. Do you know of any such meat and where to find it?
Regular salami is just too bland and doesn't cut it for me.
Thanks!
Hi guys,
Try something called 'pepperoni'.
That's the point, I can't find anything called pepperoni.
Since your location is just given as 'CH', this may not be in your travel range... but in case anyone in the SZ area is craving a pepperoni pizza, get thee to Walhalla DelikatEssen und Metzgerei in Einsiedeln:
http://www.walhalla-einsiedeln.ch/pa...ialitaeten.php
Proper 'American' pepperoni is almost up there with brown sugar and Clorox in the pantheon of longed-for reminders of home. OH has been on a 14 year mission to find something close to the real deal - and so far, Walhalla's Salami Enrico Pikante is one of the best.
Try his other salamis as well - mighty tasty.
Chorizo is fairly common here,
Thanks, I didn't know Chorizo. It looks like both Coop and Migros have it, that's fab
well so far I used to think both pepperoni and Salami are made of same stuff....just that one is spiced and other is salted version.
And by adjusting the other indigrients in pizza both would almost result in same taste :-(
Pepperoni is way spicier (whilst being tasty and not hot), whereas drowning a salami pizza in spices makes me spout flames, while it remains bland and doesn't taste like pepperoni pizza at all
Welcome to the forum.
Please note that "pepperoni" in the American sense is a misnomer. It comes from Italian peperone (plural: peperoni ), which means a cultivar of the genus capsicum , mainly capsicum annuum , a.k.a bell pepper. The ending "- one " is an augmentativ to " pepe " (= pepper), so it means "big pepper." And that's how the term is used also in Switzerland. In French it is known as poivron , which again is an augmentative to poivre , so it means "big pepper" too.
That pepperoni sausage is an American invention with an Italian name, just like so many other things, mainly in the cooking field. Italians wouldn't understand what you mean, although it is their language.
If you ask for pepperoni in Switzerland you'll get bell peppers. Chorizo (Spanish) or chouriço (Portuguese) may be closest to what you want. In former decades, Migros had Hungarian Gyula sausage, which was even closer, but I haven't seen that in many years.
We use Gusto Espanol Chorizo which you can get at bigger Migros stores. It's quite spicy and nice on pizzas.
Thank you :-) weird me have been eating pizzas all these days without knowing the difference.
Also remember this:
Switzerland
- Pepperoni = doesn't exist (that's why I was looking for a substitute)
- Peperoni = bell pepper
- Peperoncini = chili peppers
- Paprika = paprika (spice)
Germany
- Pepperoni = don't know if it exists
- Bell pepper = Paprika
- Chili peppers = Peperoni or Chilischoten
- paprika (spice) = Paprikagewürz or Paprika edelsüss or Rosenpaprika, depending on which kind you like
Chorizo is not the same as pepperoni used on US pepperoni pizzas.
I believe I saw a salami labelled "Pepperoni" at Edeka, a german grocery chain.
"Pepperoni" sounds Italian, but don't try it with Italiens.
PEPPERONI is available everywhere here, in not just Italian groceries but also in Coop and Migros (etc) and has been so for more than 50 years. Don't know whether it exists in Germany but suppose it does.
http://www.codecheck.info/gemuese/ge...i_3_Farben.pro
and here for example a pizza delivery service option in the Bern area
Citterio and other commercial Italian producers make a soft salami that tastes pretty close. Look for the 'U' shaped fairly thin ones in reddish/brown casings, and give them a littles squeeze to see if the consistency is right. You'll have to slice them yourself, and they aren't cheap, either.
I haven't seen them in Migros or Coop, but specialist Italian grocers and independent supermarkets sometimes have them. I can't remember the exact names for them but a little experimenting might help you find the right substitute. Try Salame Piccante, or Salame Piccante con Pepperoncini, or Salame Piccante Napoli.
The first (codecheck) link is about Pe p eroni (bell pepper), not Pe pp eroni (meat). Bell pepper is available just about everywhere, but that's not what I'm looking for.
And in the 2nd link (moosseepizza), the name in the pizza delivery service is misspelled. There is pepperoni on the pizza, so they shouldn't call it peperoni.
But I suppose I'm too much of a grammar freak , so I'll just try Chorizo and see how close it gets to the real thing (American pepperoni)
It's not really that close, but it's delicious. Try finding the ones I mentioned, they can be sliced thicker and that's half the battle won.
If you like it spicy try soppressata calabrese and you'll forget about anything which starts with P...
It's really not Italian. Most Italians will think to receive a bell pepper pizza with a misspelled name.
Maybe I need new glasses ,but you did not ask for Supstitute ups you did kind of