Neapolitan Pizza

Pizza alla Napoletana

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    4 × 28 cm

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
An Invitation to Italian Cooking

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 1986

  • About

‘This classic pizza is both one of the simplest to prepare and the most tasty. In Naples it is customary to eat pizza in one’s hands.’

Ingredients

Method

Prepare the dough as described in the basic recipe. Make the tomato sauce while the dough is rising. Preheat the oven to 230°C/450°F/Gas 8.

For the sauce, heat the oil in a pan, fry the garlic for just a few seconds and then add the tomatoes (if using canned tomatoes you may ha