Classic Margherita Pizza
- ⏱ 1 hour 40 minutes
- Medium
- Serves 2
- 👥 2-cook recipe
A classic Margherita pizza with a crisp dough base, tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil, and olive oil.
Adapted from Great British Chefs.
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COOK 1COOK 2
1Make the dough
2Preheat pizza oven
Preheat your pizza oven for cooking the pizza
3Plate and serve
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Classic Margherita ...
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COOK 2COOK 1
1Make the dough
In a big mixing bowl, mix the flour, yeast, sugar and...
Mix the water and oil together
Stir into the dry ingredients
2Preheat pizza oven
3Plate and serve
+ 12 more steps in the app
Ingredients
- 500 g Doves Farm Organic Strong White Bread Flour
- 7 g Doves Farm Quick Yeast
- 1 tsp golden caster sugar
- 2 tsp salt
- 300 ml warm water
- 50 ml olive oil for the dough and greasing
- semolina, to taste
- 300 ml passata
- 1 bunch fresh basil for the sauce (roughly chopped)
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1/2 tsp cane sugar
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 125 g fior di latte mozzarella
- 1 handful fresh basil for topping
- 2 tbsp olive oil for drizzling
The full plan
Split between two cooks — each step says who's on it.
1. Make the dough COOK 1
- In a big mixing bowl, mix the flour, yeast, sugar and salt together
- Mix the water and oil together
- Stir into the dry ingredients
- Tip the pizza dough onto a lightly flour-dusted surface and knead for 10 minutes
- Lightly grease the mixing bowl with some oil
2. Preheat pizza oven COOK 2
- Preheat your pizza oven for cooking the pizza
3. Chop the basil COOK 2
- Roughly chop the fresh basil for the sauce
4. Rise the dough COOK 1
- Put the dough back in, cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and leave to rise until doubled in size
5. Make tomato sauce COOK 2
- In a large bowl, mix together the passata, chopped basil, oregano and sugar before seasoning to taste with salt and pepper
🤝 Cook 1 hands the large bowl to Cook 2.
6. Divide the dough COOK 2
- Divide the dough into 2 portions
- Keep 1 portion under the tea towel while working on the other one
🤝 Cook 1 hands over the dough.
7. Make the pizza COOK 2
- Roll 1 portion of the dough out as thin as you can get it on a lightly floured surface
- Transfer it to a pizza peel dusted with semolina
- Use your fingers to press down the centre of 1 portion of the dough and create a crust
- Spoon the tomato passata sauce onto the base of 1 portion of the pizza, and top with 1 portion of the sliced mozzarella
8. Cook the pizza COOK 2
- Cook 1 portion of the pizza in the pizza oven for around 1 minute, turning every 10 seconds, or until bubbly and cooked through
9. Plate and serve BOTH
- Top 1 portion of the pizza with 1 portion of the fresh basil leaves as it comes out of the pizza oven and drizzle with 1 portion of the olive oil before serving
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