Margherita Pizza

Margherita Pizza

Ingredients for dough:-

1. 1 cup of warm water
2. 1-¼ teaspoon of yeast
3. 2 teaspoon of sugar
4. ½ teaspoon of salt
5. 3 cups of refined flour (maida)
6. 2 tablespoon of veg oil

Ingredients for pizza sauce:-

1. 1 cup of tomato puree
2. 2 nos. of garlic cloves
3. 5-6 basil leaves finely chopped

Ingredients for Pizza:-

1. Fresh mozzarella cheese (easily available in market) cut into round slices
2. 1 pinch of salt
3. 1 pinch of pepper
4. 1 teaspoon of olive oil for drizzle
5. 1 nos. of tomato in round slices

Preparation method for dough:-

1. Take warm water and mix with yeast, sugar, salt, oil and rest for 5 min.
2. Take flour in a dough try and set it as well and put yeast water mixture in it
3. Use a fork for mixing flour and water constantly
4. Take the mixture knead the dough as scratch-fold-turn again and again by hands for 5 min.
   
      
5. Rest the dough for at least an hour in a warm place

Preparation method for Sauce:-

1. In a saucepan put puree, garlic, basil leaves and cook for 5 min.
2. Set aside it (Margherita pizza sauce)

Preparation method for pizza:-

1. Starch the dough using hand or rolling pin like a roti
   
2. Put pizza sauce on it and spread all around the dough
3. Put tomato slices on it and put mozzarella slices on tomato slices
   
4. Sprinkle salt, pepper & drizzle olive oil
5. Bake into preheated oven at 275 F for 20 min. or the pizza crust is golden brown
6. Garnish with basil leaves.

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