Sorrento Italian Dining and Wine Bar Taupo is where it’s at!

Who doesn’t like pizza! Pizza is a famously known dish from Italy consisting of a round and flattened base of dough usually topped with a tomato based sauce, cheese, and often various ingredients which is then baked at high temperature to get the crust nice and brown, and the cheese lovely and golden. Sorrento Italian Dining and Wine Bar in Taupo, New Zealand offer delicious pizzas inspired from Italy but with New Zealand flare. We make our own pizza bases with New Zealand ingredients to suit the New Zealand palate, as well as those of visitors to New Zealand.

We may be bias but we think Sorrento Italian Dining and Wine Bar Taupo have the best pizza Taupo has to offer!

Sorrento Italian Dining and Wine Bar Taupo have a pizza menu offering many speciality pizzas all made with our homemade tomato sauce and our homemade pizza bases.

 

To tempt you, see the amazing specialty pizza menu Taupo’s Sorrento has to offer:

Margherita Pizza

Margherita pizza was conceived in honour of Queen Margherita, of Italy. Homemade pizza base topped with pomodoro sauce, fresh mozzarella, basil and oregano served in Sorrento Italian Dining in Taupo. The colours of the toppings symbolize the flag of Italy, which is red, white and green.

Vegetarian Pizza

This delicious homemade pizza base comes with a tomato sauce base, red onion, kalamata olives, feta, with basil on top. This pizza can also be made vegan or gluten free if you let us know when placing your order!

Prosciutto Pizza

I’m sure you can guess what’s on our Prosciutto pizza! A delicious homemade pizza base topped with flavoursome sweet and salty prosciutto ham that tastes amazing with sliced mushroom, parmesan cheese and rocket.

Pepperoni Pizza

Pepperoni – a variety of salami which is traditionally made from pork and beef mixed together. Pepperoni when combined with oregano, red capsicum, and caramelised onions on Sorrento’s homemade pizza base provides a great flavour experience.

Pollo Pizza

Did you know that ‘Pollo’ means chicken in Italian? Sorrento pizza restaurant Taupo presents to you this absolutely scrumptious chicken pizza using our homemade pizza base, laden with ‘Pollo’, chorizo, and spinach topped with parmesan cheese, fresh tomato and spring onion.

Neapolitan Pizza

This style of pizza originally comes from Naples in the south of Italy. It is traditionally prepared using our homemade pizza base and uses humble ingredients such as capers, anchovies, garlic, olives, and basil.

Calzone

Calzone is an oven-baked folded pizza. Sorrento’s chef will fill your pizza with bacon, onion, mushroom, mozzarella cheese, and oregano all wedged between our delicious pomodoro sauce.

Hawaiian Pizza

Hawaiian pizza wouldn’t be ‘Hawaiian’ without pineapple and ham right! At our pizza restaurant in the heart of Lake Taupo we serve this classic combination along with sliced mushrooms and olives.

 

If you want to make great pizza like Taupo’s Sorrento pizza restaurant then start with the perfect base!

Remember – the most important starting point is the dough and the preparation process.

Here is the basic dough recipe – it makes 4 pizza bases:

Ingredients:

4 teaspoons yeast

1 teaspoon sugar

1 & ^3/4 cups warm water

4 cups plain flour

1 teaspoon sea salt

And olive oil for oiling the bowl

Instructions:

1. In a small bowl combine the yeast, sugar and warm water and mix well. Leave it for 5-10 minutes.
2. Sift the flour and salt into another bowl, and make a well in the centre. Pour the wet yeast mixture into the flour mixture and form into a dough with your hands.
3. Place the dough into a clean, lightly oiled larger sized bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Leave to rest in a warm place for about 45 minutes, or until the dough has doubled in size and puffed up.
4. Remove dough from the bowl and knead for 2-3 minutes, then quarter the dough and shape into you r pizza bases.

Buon appetito!