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{{Short description|Argentine pizza variety}}
{{Infobox food
| name             = Fugazzeta
| image            = Banchero03.jpg
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| caption          = Fugazza con queso
| alternate_name   =
| country          = [[Argentina]]
| region           = [[Buenos Aires]]
| creator          =
| course           =
| type             = [[Flatbread]]
| served           = Hot or warm
| main_ingredient  = Dough, [[onions]], [[cheese]]
| variations       =
}}
{{Pizza}}
[[File:Fugazzeta en pizzeria Guerrin, Buenos Aires.JPG|thumb|250px|Fugazzeta]]
'''Fugazza con queso''' (from [[Genoese dialect]]: ''fugassa''), or simply '''fugazza''', is a common type of [[Argentine pizza]], originating in [[Buenos Aires]], that consists of a thick pizza crust topped with [[Onion|onions]], [[cheese]], and sometimes [[Olive|olives]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comemelapizza.com/pizza-fugazza-con-queso/|work=Cómeme la pizza|title=PIZZA FUGAZZA CON QUESO – PIZZA ARGENTINA|date=2 July 2014 }}</ref> It is derived from a combination of [[Neapolitan pizza]] with Italian [[focaccia]] bread.
Fugazza and its variations are believed to have been invented by a [[Genoa|Genoese]]-Argentine pizza maker named Juan Banchero sometime between 1893 and 1932, who served it out of a pizza shop bearing his name. Banchero's pizza shop continues to sell fugazza to this day in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of [[La Boca]], which historically served as a home to Genovese immigrants to Argentina.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clarin.com/ediciones-anteriores/inventores-fugazza-queso_0_By1xAZUk0Yx.html|work=[[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]]|title=Los inventores de la fugazza con queso|date=12 February 2006}}</ref>
==Characteristics and varieties==
Fugazza is typically prepared with the following ingredients:<ref>{{Cite web |title=PIZZA FUGAZZA CON QUESO – PIZZA ARGENTINA |date=2 July 2014 |url=https://www.comemelapizza.com/pizza-fugazza-con-queso/}}</ref>
* Argentine pizza dough ("masa"—meaning at least three focaccia-like centimetres when served, or the more moderate "half-dough"—"media masa"), characterized by a spongy consistency, and far more water and leavening than a Neapolitan pizza crust
* low-[[moisture]] [[Milk|cow's milk]] [[mozzarella]]
* [[Red onion|red onions]]
* [[Scallion|green onion]]
* [[Sweet onion|sweet onions]]
* [[oregano]]
* [[Parmesan|Parmesan cheese]]
* [[olive oil]]
'''Fugazzetta''' is a variation on fugazza in which the cheese is baked in between two pizza crusts (usually media masa), and the onions are placed on top.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fugazza vs. fugazzeta |url=http://novinesoloacomer.blogspot.com/2014/09/fugazza-vs-fugazzeta.html |access-date=2022-06-08 |language=es}}</ref>
'''Figazza''' is a version of fugazzetta from [[Uruguay]], where the main difference is the lack of cheese or any middle filling, also the portions are cut to the style of Uruguayan pizza, which is in rectangular pieces, and it can have additional topping of olives and bell peppers, a less common version of Uruguayan figazza is '''figazza con muzzarella''', where mozzarella cheese is put on top of the onions, almost same ingredients of Argentinian fugazza but backwards order.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cocinacaseradeluruguay.wordpress.com/2020/11/29/pizza-y-faina/ | title=Pizza y Fainá | date=29 November 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JIlAEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22figazza%22&pg=PT103 | title=¿Qué es boniato, maestro? Pequeño diccionario ilustrado de uruguayismos para porteños: Contiene como chiquicientas definiciones | isbn=9789974872370 | last1=Rojas | first1=Gustavo Fripp | date=15 April 2020 | publisher=Alter ediciones }}</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|Argentina|Food}}
==References==
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