THE BEST PIZZA SIDEKICKS

THE BEST PIZZA SIDEKICKS

Kato, Robin, Doctor Watson, Mini-me, Samwise Gamgee, Mr. Spock, Chewbacca, and Garlic Bread… see the connection? Yes, they’re all sidekicks a.k.a. assistants, associates, or right hand men to one who has more authority.

Supporting roles they may be, but such sidekicks are often blessed with abilities that their head honchos lack and it isn’t rare that these sidekicks rescue their more illustrious partners from certain peril, more than once.

Hopefully, you’ve gotten the point by now that by sidekicks, we mean side dishes, which we feel deserve more credit than they’re given. They complete a main course, give it added flavour and basically makes the meal all the more satisfying.

And when it comes to pizzas, there’s more than just garlic bread to get the side job done. Here are some of our favourite pizza side dishes!

:: Garlic Bread

Unless you’re a Romanian vampire, you probably have eaten garlic bread at least once in your life. It is perhaps the most famous of all side dishes, although they do come in slightly varying forms depending on the chef – a square slice of bread, a baguette, a round loaf, with a sesame seed bun, a breadstick, and etc. It isn’t only a good side dish for pizzas, but for soups and actually, it’ll work well with almost anything… even on its own!

:: Mac ‘n Cheese

You might argue that Mac ‘n Cheese is more of a dish on its own, but some places do offer them as side dishes, and what amazing side dishes they are. Cheese lovers and pasta lovers alike will almost always find themselves succumbing to the temptations of this simple dish that oozes with cheese, is irresistibly creamy, and has an addictively chewy texture. You’re thinking about having some now aren’t you?

:: Onion Rings

Take a sliced “cross sectional” string of an onion, dip it in batter or breading, and deep-fry it. What do you get?  The world-famous dish known as onion rings. No one really knows where these tear-jerkingly tasty snacks come from (see what we did there?) but one thing’s for certain, they’re great with pizzas, and taste even better if you stuff a bit of cheese into them!

:: Calamari Rings

Few can resist the tantalizing charms of a properly prepared serving of calamari or “sotong rings” if you’re Malaysian. These delicacies add a terrific seafood accent to your slice of Pizza (considering it’s not a seafood pizza) and get even better with chilli sauce.

:: Chicken Wings

Barbecued, fried, broiled, roasted, grilled, or baked – you can cook chicken wings in any way you like, but even with a simple marinade, they’re always a great side dish. At Vivo Pizza, we bake ours or fry ‘em with paprika, and we also have mid-joint wings with barbecue sauce in our menu – both are must tries.  These are fantastic as ways of getting the appetite going before digging in into that 13” pizza and they’ll have no problems holding their own as a medium-weighted snack.

:: Chicken Tenderloin

If wings aren’t your thing and you prefer biting into a meatier, chunkier type of sidekick; perhaps a plate of chicken fingers or nuggets or even our very own crispy crumbed chicken tenderloin will do the trick. Always fried, always best served hot and always delicious; it’ll do more than you could ask it to as a sidekick!

Surprise, surprise; we’ve got 4 out of the 5 side dishes above in our menu! We also have some more interesting ones at well, breaded scallop for example, and it’s served up with a combination of fried fish fillet, calamari, onion rings and fries to create our very own “Ocean Discovery” platter.

but you’ll have to visit one of our outlets and find out about the rest J

More about Vivo’s Side Dishes here:

http://www.vivopizza.com/delicacies.php