Pizza Viennese

Although it seemingly deviates from the standard Italian pizza by using an ingredient unconventional for authentic Italian cuisine – the Vienna sausage – pizza viennese is, on the contrary, a very traditional Italian pizza variety. The pizza base is usually smeared with tomato sauce and then topped with mozzarella and Vienna sausages cut into slices.

Hailing from the actual birthplace of pizza – the town of Naples - pizza viennese is especially beloved by children, who are, as most Italians would agree, its primary consumers. There is also a version of this pizza that calls for the addition of fries.

Pizza purists may not be very fond of this pizza variety, but it is, nevertheless, very popular in the regions bordering Austria, while in other parts of the country it remains relatively uncommon.