Pizza Recipes
Margherita Pizza
Ingredients
- Dough – Purchase some fresh dough from your local pizza shop or make your own. (Seriously…take a ride to the pizza shop). Or, locate a recipe for dough on the internet and spend 2 hours of your life that you will never regain…
- 1 can peeled San Marzano tomatoes, drained and coarsely chopped in a food processor
- 1/4 teaspoon oregano, crumbled
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Sea salt and ground pepper
- 1/2 pound fresh Mozzarella sliced thin
- 3 to 4 Basil leaves, torn into pieces
- 1 large garlic clove finely chopped
- Misc. Pizza stone for the oven. A baking sheet will suffice but the stone makes a huge difference. Also, a pizza peel will help the transfer of the uncooked pizza to the hot stone.
Directions
Step 1
Place the dough on a lightly floured surface (pizza peel) and stretch it to fit
within the boundaries for the peel or sheet.
Step 2
Place pizza stone in the oven at 500 degrees allowing approx. 45 minutes to heat.
Step 3
Stir in the oregano and 1 tbls of the olive oil into the tomato sauce and season with salt and pepper.
Step 4
Transfer to the pizza peel and spread a thin layer of the tomato sauce on the dough. Put mozzarella on next without overlapping slices.
Step 5
Drop small garlic pieces sparingly to taste and drizzle with 1 tbls olive oil, salt and pepper.
Step 6
Bake until the bottom is firm and the cheese is melted, about 8 minutes. Remove
from oven and place basil leaf pieces randomly on the pizza and let stand for 3 minutes before serving.
Serves 4-6
Wine Pairing : Zinfandel, Chianti, Sangiovese, Montepulciano,Red Blend
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