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Original Italian Pizza Recipe

Original Italian Pizza Recipe

Explore this easy-to-do original Italian pizza recipe; all you need for this recipe are essential ingredients that you can find easily at home! An original Italian pizza recipe is the ideal savior to cheer up your monotonous and dull weekend dinners. This easy-peasy and exotic delight can be prepared within few minutes, and folks can’t get over it.
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Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 7 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 8 minutes
Servings: 8 Slices
Course: Main Dish
Cuisine: Italian
Calories: 68
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 ball Best Pizza Dough
  • 1/3 cup Best Homemade Pizza Sauce
  • 3/4 cup Mozzarella cheese (shredded)
  • 3 tbsp Best Basil Pesto or Basil Cashew Pesto
  • Semolina flour or cornmeal - for dusting the pizza peel

Method
 

  1. First of all, prepare the proper pizza dough, which should be soft and stretchable.
  2. After that keep pizza stone in the oven and prepare the oven by preheating it to 500°F.
  3. To make the cheese: Slice the mozzarella cheese into 1/4 inch thick pieces. Sometimes the fresh mozzarella is very watery (it can depend on the brands too). You can use a paper towel to discard most of its moisture; you should do this process for 15 minutes afterward. Dab the mozzarella by using the paper towel to discard any extra moisture.
  4. To bake the pizza: Dust a pizza peel by using cornmeal or semolina flour when the oven gets ready. (You can utilize a rimless baking sheet if you don’t have a pizza peel. Yet I would suggest you, spending a penny on pizza peel is a worthy investment!) After that, roll out the dough into a circle; and softly keep the dough onto the pizza peel.
  5. Using the back of a spoon to create a thin layer, roll out the pizza sauce on the dough. Now mix the mozzarella cheese. Drizzle up some kosher salt.
  6. In order to carefully transfer the pizza on the heated pizza stone, make use of pizza peel. Keep baking the pizza for about 5 to 7 minutes in the oven, until the cheese and crust get a lovely brown shade.
  7. Drop the spoonful of basil pesto. Cut it into pieces and serve it nicely!

Notes

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