Pizza Margherita
If you want to start an Italian cuisine cooking journey, this easy Pizza Margherita is the perfect beginner dish.
Servings: 4 (12'' pizza)
Calories: 315kcal
Ingredients
For the pizza dough
For the pizza toppings
- ¼ cup pizza sauce (easy homemade no-cook)
- ½ cup Mozzarella cheese
- 1 tbsp fresh basil (finely chopped)
Instructions
Pizza Dough
- In a bowl, mix dry yeast and sugar with water.
- Set the mixture aside to bloom.
- In a separate bowl, sieve the all-purpose flour, sea salt, and milk powder.
- Stir the wet yeast mixture into the dry mixture.
- Then, drizzle the mixture with olive oil.
- Knead using a mixer or by hand until smooth.
- Place the dough in a greased bowl.
- Cover it with cloth for 15 minutes.
- Next, dust your kitchen counter with semolina or flour.
- Shape the dough into a pizza.
Toppings
- Spread the flattened pizza dough on a pizza pan.
- Evenly spread the pizza sauce over the pizza dough.
- Top off the pizza dough with mozzarella.
Baking time!
- Preheat the oven for several minutes.
- Bake it at 220°C for eight to ten minutes or until crisp.
- Once done, garnish it with fresh basil and serve!
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Notes
- To make it extra yummy and healthy, don't forget to try making your own Pizza Dough and Pizza Sauce!
- The mozzarella will add milky freshness to the cooked pizza.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 (of 4) | Calories: 315kcal | Carbohydrates: 54g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 12mg | Sodium: 534mg | Potassium: 244mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 3g | Vitamin A: 265IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 3mg