Plate lunches are often the initial thing people think of when they think of Hawaii, but the islands actually contain a diverse assortment of culinary delights. For instance, Lanai travel deals offer the chance for exquisite cuisine with fusion food. Many people think that fusion food has to be something complicated, but with Hawaiian food it can be simple as a pizza inspired by the island’s native flavors and palettes.
A Hawaiian pizza, as an example of such simple fusion fare, includes the usual ingredients, the dough, the sauce, the flour, EVOO, and of course, salt and pepper. But it also includes pineapple most often, or even mango. Trying out different fruit flavors with the pizza can be the most fun part about trying to make the Hawaiian pizza your own creation.
Part of the way hotels cook the pizza is in the old traditional Italian way, where there is an old brick oven and a big wooden spatula employed to move the pizza in and out of the oven. The typical temperature for a pizza oven is often around 400 degrees F, but some people cook their pizzas at a lower or higher temperature, depending upon their tastes for the crunchiness of crust and other factors. One chef cooked his pizza at 300 degrees, which is unusual. Big island vacations can be full of surprises though.
Another chef actually pureed pineapple and made it a part of his sauce. The taste was unusual, but not entirely unpleasant. He served it with some cubes of mozzarella chunks on top of the pizza, which did not melt all over and make a globby mess, but actually stayed in cube form. They warmed all the way through and totally delicious to just bit into.
On another Kauai vacation, packages of pineapple canned fruit and homemade recipe books were being handed out near one of the hotels. It proved to be an inexpensive memory of Hawaii that has been very useful in the kitchen.
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