Margherita Pizza Recipe
Transport your taste buds to Naples, Italy with this quick and easy Margherita pizza recipe all from the comfort of your own kitchen! Just add water, and you will have created Italy’s most famous pizza dough–the Neapolitan. Add a few ingredients, and you have yourself the perfect Margherita pizza!
2 ½ - 4 hrs.
20 min.
2-10 min.
1 pizza
Making your own pizza can be an involved process. However, Urban Slicer Pizza Worx makes this technical process easy and user friendly. Just add water, and you have dough! Don't know how to stretch the dough? Don't worry! Matt Frampton from Urban Slicer will walk you through the process in the video above!
Preheat Oven
Set the pizza oven for high heat cooking, approximately 700°F. Or, preheat a conventional oven to 500°F.
Mix Urban Slicer’s Neapolitan Dough with Water
Either in a bowl or on a clean surface, slowly incorporate one cup of warm water into one packet’s worth of dough. Mix either by hand for 10 min. or with a stand mixer for 8 min., until the dough is smooth and elastic.
Form Two Dough Balls
Cut the dough into two identical balls. Then fold each inside out six times to trap air inside the dough.
Let the Dough Rise
Lightly coat each ball with olive oil to prevent sticking and place them both into a container to rise. Let the dough rise for 2-4 hours at room temperature.
Prepare a Surface to Stretch the Dough
Once the dough has risen, prepare a clean surface with a 50/50 mixture of bread flour and semolina flour to help shape the dough.
Stretch the Dough
Form the crust by impressing a circle in the dough with your fingers until the dough is a six to seven inch circle. With one hand, stretch the dough slightly and then turn the dough with the other. Work your way around the dough until it's slightly larger than your hand. Then, lift the dough and keep rotating it with your fists while gravity stretches the dough into about a 13 inch pie. Flour a pizza peel and transfer the dough onto it.
Add Sauce and Toppings
Spoon half a can of Urban Slicer Pizza Sauce into the middle of the pie and spread the sauce in a circular motion until it covers the pie, but not the crust. After the sauce is added top with the basil leaves. Cover and protect the basil with pinches of fresh mozzarella. Drizzle a little olive oil and sprinkle some Urban Slicer White Pizza Mojo to add extra flavor.
Bake the Pizza
With the pizza oven at around 700°F put the pizza into the oven for 2-4 min. making sure to rotate the pizza so that the crust closest to the fire doesn’t burn. Or place the pizza in a conventional oven at 500°F for 8-10 min.
Slice and Enjoy!
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Ingredients
- ½ package of Urban Slicer Neapolitan Pizza Dough
- ½ can of Urban Slicer Pizza Sauce
- Urban Slicer White Pizza Mojo Seasoning
- Fresh Mozzarella
- Basil leaves
- Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1 cup water
- Bread flour
- Semolina flour
Tools
- Ooni Karu Pizza Oven
- Ooni Pizza Peel
- Ooni Pizza Cutter Rocker Blade
- Dough scraper
Instructions
1 )Preheat Oven
- Prepare a pizza oven for high heat cooking, approximately 700°F. Or, preheat a conventional oven to 500°F.
2) Mix Urban Slicer’s Neapolitan Dough with water
- Either in a bowl or on a clean surface, slowly incorporate one cup of warm water into one packet’s worth of dough. Mix either by hand for 10 min. or with a stand mixer for 8 min., until the dough is smooth and elastic.
3) Form two dough balls
- Cut the dough into two identical balls. Then fold each inside out six times to trap air inside the dough.
4) Let the dough rise
- Lightly coat each ball with olive oil to prevent sticking and place them both into a container to rise. Let the dough rise for 2-4 hours at room temperature.
5) Prepare a surface to stretch the dough
- Once the dough has risen, prepare a clean surface with a 50/50 mixture of bread flour and semolina flour to help shape the dough.
6) Stretch the dough
- Form the crust by impressing a circle in the dough with your fingers until the dough is a six to seven inch circle. With one hand, stretch the dough slightly and then turn the dough with the other. Work your way around the dough until it's slightly larger than your hand. Then, lift the dough and keep rotating it with your fists while gravity stretches the dough into about a 13 inch pie. Flour a pizza peel and transfer the dough onto it.
7) Add sauce and toppings:
- Spoon half a can of Urban Slicer Pizza Sauce into the middle of the pie and spread the sauce in a circular motion until it covers the pie, but not the crust. After the sauce is added top with the basil leaves. Cover and protect the basil with pinches of fresh mozzarella. Drizzle a little olive oil and sprinkle some Urban Slicer White Pizza Mojo to add extra flavor.
8) Bake pizza
- With the pizza oven at around 700°F put the pizza into the oven for 2-4 min. making sure to rotate the pizza so that the crust closest to the fire doesn’t burn. Or place the pizza in a conventional oven at 500°F for 8-10 min.
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