Skip to content
FlavorArena Logo

Quick & Easy

1 recipe videos analyzed using 100 viewer comments—and counting.

  1. Margherita Pizza Recipe / Homemade Pizza Recipe

    by Recipes by Carina

    chef_hat Recipe Overview

    A Margherita pizza made by cooking half a tin of tomatoes with basil and a garlic clove into a sauce, rolling and topping pizza dough with the sauce, thinly sliced tomatoes and mozzarella, drizzling with olive oil and seasoning, and baking in the oven on a pizza stone at the highest setting until the base has risen and browned.

    • thumb_up 5,313
    • visibility 477,056

    grocery Ingredients You'll Need

    • basil
    • black pepper
    • canned tomatoes
    • garlic
    • mozzarella
    • olive oil
    • pizza dough

    Margherita Pizza Recipe / Homemade Pizza Recipe

    by Recipes by Carina
    Advertisement modal-insights-video-details-305

    grocery Ingredients

    • Pizza dough (or store-bought pizza dough, pre-made pizza base, homemade pizza dough)
    • 1/2 tin canned tomatoes
    • Basil, leaves, torn
    • 1 clove garlic, diced
    • Mozzarella, thinly sliced (or buffalo mozzarella, another kind of mozzarella)
    • Tomato, thinly sliced
    • Olive oil, good quality
    • Salt, to taste
    • Black pepper

    book_ribbon Instructions

    1. Pour half a tin of tomatoes into a saucepan.
    2. Tear a small handful of basil leaves and add them to the pan.
    3. Dice one garlic clove and add it to the pan.
    4. Cook over medium heat for 20-30 minutes, until the tomatoes have broken down and the sauce has thickened; leave the sauce to cool.
    5. Roll out the pizza dough with a rolling pin to your preferred thickness.
    6. Flour the pizza base well and transfer it to a baking sheet or, if using a pizza stone, transfer on baking paper.
    7. Slice the tomatoes and mozzarella into thin slices and remove the stalks from the basil.
    8. Take a spoonful of the cooled pizza sauce and spread it thinly over the pizza base, leaving a rim around the edge for the crust.
    9. Arrange the tomato slices evenly over the sauce, then top with mozzarella slices.
    10. Drizzle a small amount of olive oil over the toppings and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
    11. Bake the pizza in the highest setting your oven will go to, preferably on a pizza stone, until the toppings are cooked and the base has risen and browned.
    12. Allow the pizza to cool for a few minutes, then garnish with basil leaves and serve immediately.