The Best Margherita Pizza, Even If You Don't Have A Pizza Oven
Recipe Mari Loewen
The king of pizza’s…where it all began. Don’t let the simplicity of these ingredients fool you, there is a reason it is the most loved pizza in the world–as long as you start with the very best ingredients.
Making Margherita pizza without a pizza oven or pizza stone can be challenging, the trick is to cook the bottom of the pizza at a high heat…read on.
Ingredients
1 store-bought pizza dough, drizzled with olive oil and stretched
1 ½ cups Mari’s holy grail pizza sauce (get the recipe)
2 cups buffalo mozzarella or fresh mozzarella balls, sliced
10 fresh basil leaves, torn
Preparation
Preheat oven to 550°F or as hot as your oven allows. Place baking sheet into oven and preheat. Remove and quickly place stretched dough onto the baking sheet. Brush dough with 1 tablespoon tomato sauce, and bake for 2 minutes. Remove from oven and top with remaining pizza sauce and mozzarella. Bake another 6 minutes until crust is baked. Top with basil leaves to serve.
To get some greens in, top pizza with arugula tossed in lemon juice, or serve on the side. It’s a nice peppery flavour to add this and any pizza.
