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Two Pinsas, via dedicated delivery service. €25 or so.
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What's the story?
€
Two Pinsas, via dedicated delivery service. €25 or so.
Find
Website https://www.bresca.es/
What's the story?
This week's home delivery is from the (Tapapies 2019) award-winning Bresca.
When is a square pizza not a pizza, you ask?
When it's a Pinsa, that's when. We shall quote Mattia Rizzi from PinsaLab in NYC (via https://tinyurl.com/ydagvm7t);
"Pizza dough requires wheat flour, a bit of water, and a lot of salt, while pinsa dough uses a wheat/soy/rice flour, more water and less salt, creating a lighter, airier crust."
So it seems pinsa also has fewer calories, lower fat, and less sodium than pizza. A non-pizza pizza, if you will. A square peg replacing the usual round whole, perhaps?
We gave ourselves a go at two of these Bolognese variations on a Roman theme via Bresca's own online delivery (with a tasty 20% discount as it was our first order). Thankfully all arrived nicely hot and fresh. One thing pinsas have in common with pizzas; they don't take kindly to delayed eating.
Take 1: Genovesa. Plenty of nice cheese, a touch of pesto and a decent crispy base meant a good balance of acidity and creamy flavours. Recommendable, as long as you can get it as freshly made as possible.
A touch more cooking time left the Diavola benefitting from some souping up with the garlic oil bottle. The fresh rocket worked. The salami had a bit of kick to it. It was just the tomato that seemed to have been very soaked up by the dough.
Roughly the same price as equivalent pizzas, these are worth certainly a try and ideal for a socially responsible evening's sharing.