Margherita Pizza

Name: Margherita Pizza
Yield: Makes 1 Pizza
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 9 small basil leaves (optional); 150 g (5½ oz) mozzarella cheese, chopped; ½ quantity tomato sauce (opposite); 1 × 30 cm (12 inch) pizza base (opposite); 1 tablespoon olive oil

Preparation info

Makes
1
Pizza

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Cook's Book of Everything

By Lulu Grimes

Published 2009

About

This classic pizza was supposedly created in 1889 in honour of Queen Margherita. The queen had heard so much of the fabled pizzas of Naples that she requested one to eat when she visited the city.

Ingredients

1 × 30 cm (12 inch) pizza base (opposite)
½ quantity tomato sauce (opposite)

Europe
Italy
Naples
Mediterranean
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat the oven to 240°C (475°F/Gas 8). Place the pizza base on a baking tray dusted with polenta and spoon the tomato sauce onto the base, spreading it up to the rim. Scatter with the mozzarella and basil, if using. Drizzle with the oil.