Ingredients
The following ingredients have 4 Servings
- 1 pound pizza dough, store-bought or homemade
- Extra Virgin olive oil, to taste
- Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
- 1/4 cup Mezzetta pizza sauce
- 8 ounces fresh mozzarella, thinly sliced
- Basil leaves, to taste
Instruction
- Remove dough from refrigerator and let come to room temperature in an oiled bowl, for at least one hour.
- Preheat your oven to 550F, or higher, for at least 30 minutes. If you have a pizza stone, place it in the lower-middle of your oven.
- Dust your counter with flour. If making two pizzas, divide your dough in half and cover one of the halves with a kitchen towel while you prepared the first pizza.
- Using your hands, stretch and shape dough into a 20-inch circle (if making one pizza) or 10-inch circle (if making two pizzas). Transfer the dough to a sheet of parchment paper and use your hands or a rolling pin to reshape it, if necessary. If the dough starts to shrink back, let it rest for 5 minutes and then continue rolling.
- Brush olive oil and season the dough with salt and pepper to taste.Then, spoon the pizza sauce onto the dough, leaving a 1-inch border. Top with the cheese and some basil leaves, drizzle more olive oil and season again with a little salt and pepper.
- Using a pizza peel (or the back side of a baking sheet), transfer the pizza to the pizza stone. If you don't have a baking stone, bake the pizza right on the baking sheet. Bake until golden brown, about 6 to 8 minutes. Slide the parchment back onto the pizza peel (or back side of a baking sheet) and transfer to your counter.
- Top with fresh basil and drizzle more olive oil (if you'd like).Repeat with the second dough, if making two pizzas.
- Slice and serve immediately!
