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Delicious homemade margherita pizza with fresh basil on a rustic wood table.

Pizza Margherita

Serving Size: 2
Total time: 1 hour 15 minutes

   Ingredients:

  • 12 inch round of pizza dough, stretched
  • 3 tablespoons tomato sauce
  • Extra-virgin olive oil
  • 2 oz fresh mozzarella
  • 4 to 5 basil leaves, roughly torn

Steps

Step 1

Place a pizza stone or tiles on the middle of the rack of your oven and turn the heat to its highest setting. Let it heat for at least an hour.

Step 2

Put the sauce in the center of the stretched dough and use the back of a spoon to spread it evenly across the surface, stopping approximately 1/2 inch from the edges.

Step 3

Drizzle a little olive oil over the pie. Break the cheese into large pieces and place these gently on the sauce. Scatter basil leaves over the top.

Step 4

Using a pizza peel, pick up the pie and slide it onto the heated stone or tiles in the ovens. Bake until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is bubbling, approximately 4 to 8 minutes.

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