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Pizza Margherita

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Category: Main Dish

 Ingredients List

  • 3/4 lb Pizza Dough
  • Semolina or cornmeal for
  • -dusting
  • 1 tb Olive oil, preferably
  • -extra vergin
  • 1/2 c Tomato Sauce
  • 2 oz Mozzarella, cheese, sliced
  • -1/8 inch thick
  • Salt & freshly grund black
  • -peppr to taste
  • 1/2 c Loosely packed fresh basil
  • -leaves (1 small bunch),
  • -thoroughly rinsed
  • 1/4 c Freshly grated Parmesan
  • -cheese

 Directions

Place a pizza stone, baking tiles or an inverted baking sheet on the bottom
or on the lowest rack of a cold oven; preheat for 30 minutes to 500 degrees
F or the highest setting.

Place dough on a lightly floured surface and pat into a disk. Use a rolling
pin or your hands to roll or stretch the dough into a circle that is 1/4
inch thick and 10 to 12 inches in diameter. Tranfer to a semolina or
cornmeal dusted pizza peel or inverted baking sheet.

Brush the dough with a little of the olive oil to the edge. Spread tomato
sauce over the dough to within 1/2 inch of the edge. Distribute mozzarella
slices over the tomato sauce and season with salt and pepper. Arrange basil
leaves over the mozzarella, reserving a few for garnish if you wish.
Sprinkle with Parmesan. Drizzle with the remaining olive oil. Carefully
slide the pizza onto the heated pizza stone and bake for 6 to 8 minutes, or
until the bottom is crisp and browned and the top is bubbling. Garnish with
the reserved basil leaves, if desired.

Entered by: Diane Pahl (1:2410/120) Recipes from: Eating Well, The Magazine
of Food and Health (tm) ISSN 1064-16399


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