Margherita Pizza

Name: Margherita Pizza
Yield: 2 portions
Ingredients: ½ recipe Basic Pizza Dough (1 ball); 6 large fresh basil leaves; 8 imported black olives; 1½ cups grated mozzarella cheese; 1½ cups Basic Tomato Sauce for Pizza; Pepper Pizza Oil, to taste; ½ teaspoon salt (optional)

Preparation info

2
portions

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The New Basics Cookbook

By Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

Published 1989

About

We love this pizza for its taste and its colors; the red, white, and green of the Italian flag.

Ingredients

½ recipe Basic Pizza Dough (1 ball)
1½ cups Basic Tomato Sauce for P

Main course
Vegetarian

Method

One hour before cooking, preheat the oven to 500°F. When the oven is almost ready, lightly oil a pizza pan and sprinkle with cornmeal.
On a well-floured work surface, press out the dough to form a 12