Pizza Margherita

Name: Pizza Margherita
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 118 milliliters thinly sliced basil leaves; 2 Tbsps extra-virgin olive oil; 567 grams frozen pizza dough, thawed; 237 milliliters shredded mozzarella; 4 tomatoes, thinly sliced

Pizza Margherita might be just the main course you are searching for. One serving contains 517 calories, 18g of protein, and 18g of fat. This recipe covers 11% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 4. If you have mozzarella, olive oil, pizza dough, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the olive oil you could follow this main course with the Sauteed Banana, Granolan and Yogurt Parfait as a dessert. This recipe is typical of Mediterranean cuisine. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 10 minutes.

Instructions

Arrange oven racks in the lower and upper third of the oven.

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Oven

Heat the oven to 475 F.

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Oven

Roll out the dough on a well-floured surface to make two 12-inch rounds and transfer to two ungreased baking sheets (or two 12-inch pizza pans). Arrange the tomatoes on top of the dough, overlapping them slightly.

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Tomato

Dough

Roll

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Baking Sheet

Drizzle the pizza with oil and season well with salt and freshly ground pepper.

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Ground Black Pepper

Salt

Cooking Oil

Bake pizzas for 10 minutes, remove from the oven, top with the mozzarella and basil, and bake 5 minutes longer, until the cheese melts and the edges of the pies are crisp and lightly browned.

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Mozzarella