Italian

Margherita Pizza

Name: Margherita Pizza
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 lb pizza dough; 1 cup crushed San Marzano tomatoes; 12 oz fresh mozzarella; 1 cup fresh basil; 3 tbsp olive oil; 1/2 tsp salt; 2 garlic cloves

Marco @marco_bologna

Margherita Pizza is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

40 min Medium Low sodium Vegetarian Halal Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb pizza dough
1 cup crushed San Marzano tomatoes
12 oz fresh mozzarella
1 cup fresh basil
3 tbsp olive oil
1/2 tsp salt
2 garlic cloves

How to cook it

Heat the oven to 500F with a baking sheet or stone inside.
Stretch the dough into a 14-inch round on parchment.
Mix the crushed tomatoes with the minced garlic and salt, then spread over the dough, leaving a border.
Dot with mozzarella and drizzle with olive oil.
Bake until the crust is blistered and the cheese bubbles, about 10 to 12 minutes.
Scatter fresh basil over the hot pizza before slicing.

Watch how to cook Margherita Pizza

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

How to Make PIZZA MARGHERITA like a Neapolitan Pizza Chef Play the video

Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Margherita Pizza, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Cicoria Ripassata (Sauteed Bitter Greens)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Insalata Caprese (Caprese Salad)
  
  10 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Margherita Pizza carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Margherita Pizza
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten	Yes	Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 630 kcal
Protein: 29 g
Carbs: 62 g
Fat: 30 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 370 mg
Saturated fat: 12 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Margherita Pizza takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. It is at its best in summer, which is when what goes into it is worth buying.