Dinner
Margherita Pizza
A perfect Neapolitan-style pizza: blistered crust, San Marzano tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and torn basil. Less is definitively more.
72 min
2 servings
medium
Ingredients
- •300 g 00 flour
- •1 tsp instant dry yeast
- •8 g salt
- •195 ml warm water
- •1 (400g) can San Marzano tomatoes
- •200 g fresh mozzarella
- •10 fresh basil leaves
- •2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
Instructions
- 1Mix flour, yeast, and salt. Add water, knead 10 min until smooth. Rest covered 1 hour.
- 2Crush tomatoes by hand. Season with salt and olive oil. Do not cook.
- 3Preheat oven with a baking stone to 550°F for 1 hour.
- 4Stretch dough by hand to a thin round. Spread tomato sauce, tear mozzarella over top.
- 5Bake 8–12 min until crust is charred and cheese bubbling. Top with fresh basil.