Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    as a main dish
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      55 min

Appears in
How to Cook Italian

By Giuliano Hazan

Published 2005

  • About

This recipe is not meant to replicate the pizza at a pizzeria in Italy. For that you would need a wood-burning pizza oven capable of very high temperatures. This pizza is a “baker’s pizza, ” which you might find at a bakery or in someone’s home. It is meant to be baked in a home oven on a baking sheet, and the dough is more similar to focaccia or bread than the chewy pizzeria dough. The topping here, with tomato and mozzarella, makes the classic Pizza Margherita, but you can substitute any