The Grandma Pizza Explained
Back to Blog When most people think of “New York pizza,” they envision a thin, round Neapolitan-style pie. Another lesser-known type of pizza originated in New York, and if you’ve never tried it, we recommend you do so right now. Here’s everything you need to know about Grandma pizza, the nostalgic Italian-American pizza that deserves a place in your recipe collection. The Sicilian-style pie known as Grandma pizza originated in New York. It’s baked in a square pan with a thin crust. Grandma’s pizza is traditionally made without a pizza oven because home cooks invented it on Long Island. As the name implies, Grandma-style pizza was once only made in the kitchen by Italian grandmothers. Grandma pizzas have a shorter proving time, resulting in a crust that is still tender and fluffy – but a little crisper and denser than Sicilian pizzas. What is on a Grandma Pizza? Notable for its distinctly thin crust, Grandma’s pizza is cooked in an olive oil-coated rectangular pan and topped with mozzarella cheese and tomato sauce (the sauce is typically layered over the cheese. This square-shaped pie has parallel strips of a light cheese accompanied by a homemade marinara sauce that was precooked for four hours