Sliced pepperoni is a typical pizza ingredient.
Pepperoni is a type of salami-like sausage. It is a common ingredient in Italian-style foods, due to its strong and spicy taste that adds to the different dishes in which it is used, such as pizza.
characteristicsStrictly speaking, pepperoni is not an Italian word, but a corruption of the word peperoni, which is the plural of peperone, the Italian name for pepper or paprika (Capsicum annuum). Its ingredients are spices and pork, a total of 44 total fat.
In the US, UU. is designated as pepperoni to a sausage of spicy taste very similar to salami. Variants
What in the US UU. and some other parts of America known as pepperoni in Italy would be known as Piccolo napoletana salsiccia, that is, spicy Neapolitan sausage. The term is also used in other European countries (especially in Italian-speaking Switzerland) to designate different varieties of Capsicum annuum.
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