Pizza with kiwi

Since I like to try new or different food, I was of course happy when I got the tip to try kiwi on pizza. I've previously tried both pineapple and banana on pizza and thought both were perfectly fine, so I thought - how bad could kiwi on pizza really be?

According to the information I could find, the kiwi pizza seems to have reached international exposure on social media around the beginning of 2020 after a Swede posted a picture of a Hawaiian pizza where he simply replaced pineapple with kiwi. It was nothing that was on the pizzeria's normal menu, but something that was specially ordered when the person came across a large amount of kiwi and was looking for different ways to use it. My initial reaction was that this could never work, but one of the best things my mother taught me is not to dismiss any food before I've tasted it, so I took it upon myself to make a kiwi pizza because I was curious as to how it would taste.

As I already have a good recipe for a Hawaiian pizza it was easy to do the same way the original kiwi pizza seems to have been created - just replace pineapple with kiwi. So my kiwi pizza has tomato sauce, cheese, smoked ham and kiwi which is then baked in the oven. I also added some dried oregano after it was baked. The dough turned out well and the pizza was baked correctly in my home oven so I think I gave the recipe the best chance to succeed.

But how did it taste? Personally, I thought it tasted terrible. The sweet and sour kiwi really didn't go well with the rest of the ingredients. In an attempt to save the pizzas I've made, I doused them in sriracha sauce and while it drowned out the kiwi flavor, it wasn't enough. I had to remove the kiwi to be able to eat the pizzas I made (I prefer not to throw away any food). So while I'm sure there are people out there who really appreciate this flavor combination, it's just not for me.

So this is probably the first recipe I post more as a warning than an instruction, but even so I'm still glad I tried. Now I KNOW it tastes bad instead of BELIEVING it.

I still use the same recipe for the pizza dough, but prepare it a little differently than I did before. As I rarely make more than one batch of dough, I now use 4 round food boxes from ikea and let the dough balls rise in them (in the fridge) overnight which cuts out some of the previous steps I did before. So no major change, just a simplification.