Authentic Margherita Pizza Recipe

Serve hot and enjoy with your favourite cold beer.

Authentic margherita pizza recipe. It features tangy pizza sauce a perfect chewy pizza crust. Spread over the crust. Our best margherita pizza recipe is based on our visits to italy and years of research. 01 put the hot water in a pan.

Divide the mozzarella between the 2 pizzas and drizzle each one with 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil. Cook in the middle of the oven for 18 minutes until golden brown. After falling in love with artisan pizza on our honeymoon in rome italy alex and i have spent years of research on how to recreate perfect italian pizza at home. Two minutes before the end of the cooking scatter over the basil and continue to cook.

Bake 15 20 minutes on the lowest oven rack. Remove pizza from the oven and arrange the mozzarella and the parmesan if using. Ingredients 3 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup water 1 25 ounce package active dry yeast 1 pinch white sugar cup flour for dusting 2 cups pizza sauce 20 slices fresh mozzarella cheese 20 leaves fresh basil 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 pinch sea salt to taste.