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Homemade Pizza Margherita with Mozzarella

Best Homemade Margherita Pizza

Prep Time 20 mins
Cook Time 15 mins
Resting Time 1 hr 30 mins
Total Time 35 mins

Ingredients
  

  • 150 grams unbleached flour
  • a half of teaspoon sugar
  • a half of tablespoon of olive oil
  • an quarter of dry yeast
  • salt to taste
  • 4 ounces of warm water (about 115 degrees Fahrenheit)

Instructions
 

  • Pizza topping shall include mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, garlic, black pepper, basil leaves, salt to taste.
  • Let`s cook it on a standard oven without special preparation or special kitchen equipment. You need baking stone, wooden or metal pizza peel for the best quality of your homemade pizza margherita.
  • Warm your oven up to 550 degrees Fahrenheit during 20-30 mi (duration of margherita pizza baking is about 8 min). It`s needed to make ready dough fo your dish by mixing of yeast, flour, salt and sugar, oil and water. The dough shall rise in a warm about 1.5-2 hours.
  • Next step is to put the dough on special plate. It is useful to cover your future pizza with plastic wrap and waiting for 5-10 minutes. At this time you can be busy with other ingredients and after preparation you need to roll out the pastry, brush it with the olive oil, add tomato sauce and put pizza topping. Put it to the oven and serve it in 7-8 minutes.
  • And one more small tip – only with pulling moisture, your best homemade margherita pizza will have crispy crusts.