Pizza potatoes puts two of your fave comfort foods in one bowl

Potato bake meets everything you love about pizza in this Italian family's "gotta be on the table" side.

Pizza potatoes

Source: VICELAND / The Pizza Show / Farideh Sadeghin

You like pizza? You like potato bakes? Let us introduce you to your new favourite comfort food.

Pizza potatoes are where two carby comfort foods come together in one treasured Italian family recipe. 

"These are my favorite. It reminds me of when Nonna, my nonna, used to make them," says Pizza Show host Frank Pinello, as his aunt Martha pulls the cover off a dish of . In episode 3 of , Frank has come home for a family dinner and with a lively Italian family, it's pretty much what you expect: "There's always a lot of people there, and there's always a ridiculous amount of food!" Among all that food, those pizza potatoes - Frank's grandmother used to make them, and now his aunt cooks them for the family, using a recipe from her nonna.
Frank Pinello with his aunt Martha in The Pizza Show
Frank Pinello with his aunt Martha and those pizza potatoes Source: SBS VICELAND / The Pizza Show
"I know for a lot of cooks, those memories of your grandmother cooking are very, very special. And for me, it's the number-one reason I became a cook," Frank says. And the smell of pizza potatoes takes him back to those days when his grandmother used to be busy in the kitchen. 

Of course, potato and pizza are old friends. And if you've suddenly got a hankering for that classic combo, we've got you covered with .
Potato, zucchini flower and buffalo mozzarella pizza
From the Feast magazine archives: potato and mozzarella pizza Source: Feast magazine
And puts potato in the pizza dough:
Focaccia Bari-style (focaccia Barese)
Focaccia Bari-style (focaccia Barese) Source: Paola Bacchia
But if you want a quicker (no waiting for the dough to rise) way to eat your 'taters with a pizza twist, Frank Pinello has the answer. Here's his aunt Martha's for pizza potatoes.
Pizza potatoes
Source: VICELAND / The Pizza Show / Farideh Sadeghin
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Published 30 May 2018 1:59pm
Updated 26 March 2020 3:54pm
By Kylie Walker


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