Perfect all-round performer for multicultural pizza cuisines

KEY INSIGHTS

• The modern pizza market embraces a myriad of styles including Turkish pide, Lebanese manouche and modern Aussie takes on Mediterranean classics
• Perfect Italiano has introduced a Pizza Cheese Block to meet the market’s diverse needs
• Pizza Cheese is the perfect all-round performer which is easy to blend with other cheeses
• Its tolerance for high heat and light browning makes it ideal for manouche

While Mozzarella is the traditional cheese to use on Italian style pizza, today’s Australian pizza market embraces a wide variety of styles, shapes and cuisine influences that are soaring in popularity with customers – from Turkish pide and Lebanese manouche, to modern Aussie takes on Mediterranean classics.

As well as experimenting with these different presentation styles, pizzamakers are also blending multiple cheeses to create distinctive flavour profiles.

This ongoing innovation is why leading brand Perfect Italiano has introduced a Pizza Cheese Block designed to meet the needs of Australia’s increasingly diverse pizza market.

“Perfect Italiano Pizza Cheese offers the key benefits of low oil off and minimal browning, while delivering the perfect melt and a stretch that’s superior to almost everything else on the market,” says Mark Williams, Chef Support Lead at Anchor Food Professionals, the company behind the Perfect Italiano brand.

“Not only is it perfect for Italian style cuisine, it’s also proving very popular in multicutural urban eateries across a myriad of cuisine styles. We describe it as a perfect all-round performer – it’s a highly adaptable cheese that will take the heat of a high temperature oven, from the conveyor ovens used in pizzerias to a range of cooking setups such as for flatbreads and manouche.”

Perfect Italiano Pizza Cheese is also a great blending cheese. “You can blend it with Parmesan, Feta, Halloumi, Ricotta … it’s been designed to complement your other ingredients without ever overpowering them,” Mark says. “It has a different taste profile to traditional Mozzarella, it’s low fat and low sugar which means it’s quite subtle.” That makes Perfect Italiano Pizza Cheese the perfect complement to strongly flavoured toppings like pepperoni, spicy slow cooked meats, seafood and Mediterranean style cuisine.

When cooked, it generates an attractive light browning which is ideal for manouche – as this recipe [https://www.fresca.net.au/nz/en/recipes/pizza/zaatar-manouche.html] from our website shows.

“You can even add other cheeses post-cook for a more artisan effect,” Mark adds. “And because it comes in a convenient 10kg block, it’s easy to shred to the shred profile and style you want for your business.”

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