Don Diego's Pizza Cho-Crocante

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 1 package of pizza dough, from the refrigerated section
• 100g mozzarella
• 2 bananas, thinly sliced
• 50 g chocolate shavings
• 50 g chopped nuts (cashew, Brazil nut, hazelnut) or hazelnut brittle

Instructions

Working time approx. 5 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 20 minutes

Lightning dessert pizza from Brazil

“Pizza doce” (sweet pizza) enjoys great popularity in Brazil. Anyone who has ever experienced a Brazilian rodizio and enjoys the “greed eats brains” principle can look forward to the pizza rodizio tradition in Brazil during the upcoming World Cup. However, you should plan ahead with your stomach capacity. Dessert pizzas, largely unknown in Germany, are usually only offered when you make a move to ask for the bill. Nevertheless, you can still tuck in endlessly if you still can or want. Common offerings include variations made with chocolate, banana, strawberries, doce de leite (milk caramel), but also those that combine savory elements such as peito de Peru (turkey breast) or smoked pork with peaches, apricots, figs, banana, and pineapple. Anyone who still has reservations about a sweet pizza should remember how popular the Hawaiian pizza is and perhaps set aside some dough for a dessert pizza. To get you started in the world of sweet pizzas, I suggest a classic banana chocolate pizza with chopped nuts, which I call “Cho-Crocante” (pronounced: cho-crocante). Provided you’ve brought a ready-made pizza from the supermarket’s refrigerated section, this pizza can be served within a quarter of an hour. Of course, you can also prepare your own special pizza dough. Preheat the oven to 220°C (425°F). Shape the dough into the desired shape (I prefer the classic, round LP size). Spread the mozzarella, grated or thinly sliced, on the base and top with the banana slices. Bake in the oven for about 12 minutes. Remove the pizza, spread the grated chocolate shavings (about 50g is enough for me, but chocolate addicts will naturally use more) evenly over the bananas, and then sprinkle with chopped nuts or hazelnut brittle. When choosing the chocolate and nuts, follow your own preferences. The chocolate will melt gently on the way from the kitchen to the table or your armchair. Serve immediately.