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Margherita Pizza

Built around pizza dough and canned san marzano or good crushed tomatoes -- the method starts by setting your oven as hot as it will go with a baking tray or.

Margherita Pizza
Prep
20 min
Cook
20 min
Total
40 min
Serves
4
Level
Medium
Rating
★ 4.8

A blistered, charred crust under bubbling cheese, baked as hot as your oven will go. Here it's built on pizza dough, canned san marzano or good crushed tomatoes and mozzarella -- a medium, Italian recipe that starts by setting your oven as hot as it will go with a baking tray or, and is ready in roughly 40 minutes.

A 40-minute cook time that's mostly hands-off simmering or roasting.

A few technique steps to focus on, but nothing that needs special equipment.

Built around pizza dough, so the flavor comes from real ingredients, not a spice packet.

Ingredients

  • 1 lb (450 g) pizza dough, at room temperature
  • 3/4 cup canned San Marzano or good crushed tomatoes
  • plus 5 more ingredients

Method

1

Set your oven as hot as it will go (usually 500F/260C) with a baking tray or pizza stone inside to heat for at least 20 minutes.

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