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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pizza margherita using 22 ingredients and 21 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make pizza margherita:
- Take crust
- Make ready 1/2 cup hot water
- Take 1/2 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp active dry yeast
- Prepare 1 3/4 cup flour divided
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tbsp olive oil
- Get sauce
- Prepare 14 oz whole canned tomatoes, undrained
- Get 1 tbsp olive oil
- Take 1 medium chopped onion
- Take 2 clove minced garlic
- Prepare 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Prepare 1 tsp dried oregano
- Take 1/2 tsp dried basil
- Take 1/2 tsp sugar
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Take 1/4 dash black pepper
- Prepare toppings
- Take 3 slice plum tomatoes
- Make ready 1 packages mozzarella cheese sliced thin
- Get 1/4 bunch fresh basil, torn
Put a jelly roll pan or a half sheet pan in the oven. Begin by making the tomato sauce. Pizza Margherita (more commonly known in English as Margherita pizza) is a typical Neapolitan pizza, made with San Marzano tomatoes, mozzarella cheese, fresh basil, salt and extra-virgin olive oil. Traditionally, it is made with fior di latte (cow's milk mozzarella) rather than buffalo mozzarella.
Instructions to make pizza margherita:
- CRUST:
- proof yeast; combine water and sugar in small bowl, sprinkle in yeast.
- Let stand for 5 minutes until bubbly
- Combine salt and 1.5 cups flour in medium bowl
- Add yeast and oil. Stir until dough forms.
- Place on floured surface and flatten slightly.
- Fold dough in half towards you and press away wit heels of hands. Repeat turning a quarter turn each time.
- Shape into ball and place in greases bowl. cover with clean towel
- Let rise 30-45 minutes until doubled in size.
- SAUCE:
- Chop tomatoes, reserving liquid.
- Heat oil in medium saucepan.
- Add onion and cook for 5 minutes until soft.
- Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds.
- Add tomatoes, juice, paste, orageno, Basil, sugar, salt and pepper. Bring to boil.
- Simmer 10-15 minutes uncovered stirring often.
- Grease 12 inch pizza pan.
- Flatten dough into circle. Place on pan.cover with towel. let sit for 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 450°.
- Spread sauce.
- Top with tomatoes, cheese, and Basil. Bake 15-20 minutes until crust begins to brown.
Margherita pizza is a thin-crust Naples-style pizza topped with tomato sauce, fresh mozzarella, basil leaves, and Parmigiano-Reggiano. It's easy to make at home, and you don't need a fancy oven or even a pizza stone to get pizzeria-quality results. Tips for Margherita Pizza Success: For the best margherita pizza, you will want to preheat your oven to the highest temperature possible. Put another baking sheet or an upturned baking tray in the oven on the top shelf. Smooth sauce over bases with the back of a spoon.
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