Need Help Should I Saute Onions Before

[Pizza Boy]

Need Help Should I Saute Onions Before
Should I Saute Onions Before puting them on and cooking a pizza or run them raw and let the pizza oven cook them?????????
Thanks

[cakerookie]

My opinion let the oven do it are you using a pizza oven? Someone else may have a better idea since I am no pizza expert. Good Luck!

Rgds Rook

[Pizza Boy]

Yes I have a pizza oven I just got in and I'll be trying to make one tonight.

[siduri]

My favorite pizza is napolitano con cipolle - naples pizza (tomato, mozzarella and anchovies) with onion - here it's always made (any time i've had it) with raw thinly sliced onion strewn on top of all the rest, and the heat of the oven (which has to be very high) cooks the onion, getting the edges slightly burnt, only slightly. very tasty.
However, pissaladiere (or pissaladina) - the provencal pizza - is wonderful too, and there you sautee the onions in olive oil slowly till they're soft, then put tehm on the white pizza dough (no tomato) with anchovies (preferably the ones packed in salt, not oil) soaked and washed of all the salt, and black (not canned!) olives. very tasty. I never saw an italian pizza with cooked onions, however.

[Mezzaluna]

When I use onions on pizza I slice them very thinly. They cook or roast (depending on how much other topping is on top) and they're delicious. The "burnt" part Siduri mentioned tastes caramelized- yummy.

[Suzanne]

Sorry -- I HATE it when the onions go on raw. Then the pizza ends up with undercooked onions because they were cut too big, or burnt because they were cut too fine. I just think that if the onions are sauteed first, the finished pizza is way better. Look at pissaladiere, the French version. Yum!

[phatch]

I prefer them cooked. I prefer the common vegetables on a pizza pre-cooked. Peppers, onions, mushrooms.

If you were doing a hoisin pizza, I suppose the straw mushrooms and baby corn wouldn't have to be pre-cooked, but they usually come from a can, so they usually are precooked anyway.