Pizza Margherita Recipe

Smash garlic clove, remove loose outer skin but keep the clove intact.

Place canned tomatoes in medium mixing bowl - depending on your preference, you can use either smooth purée or a thicker, more rustic tomato sauce.  Add whole garlic clove, salt, and extra-virgin olive oil, blend. Allow to marinate until ready to use on prepared pizza dough base.

Drain mozzarella cheese, and when liquid is gone from the cheese, cube and set aside. 

Preheat oven to maximum heat on your oven.

Using freshly prepared, risen pizza dough (1 full batch of Fresh Pizza Dough), place dough onto metal baking tray. Using your fingers and working delicately, spread dough out into round shape, being careful not to press down too hard at the borders of the dough in order to leave nice crusty border on your pizza.

Using soup spoon, place dollop of fresh tomato sauce onto crust, smooth out to cover dough base, leaving edges bare to create crust as pizza cooks.

Add cubed mozzarella on top of tomato sauce, garnish with fresh basil leaf.

Place prepared pizza into preheated oven. Cook until crust and edges have turned nicely golden in color, and are crisp to the touch.

Remove from oven, allow to cook very slightly, serve promptly while still hot.