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Margherita Pizza With Handmade Dough and Sauce - Recipe Video

A simple and easy to understand recipe video shows how to make Margherita Pizza With Handmade Dough and Sauce .
Simple Margherita pizza with homemade dough and tomato sauce! Once you learn how to make dough and tomato sauce, you can enjoy various arrangements. Margherita is basically made with the colors of the Italian flag: red tomato sauce, white cheese, and green basil. If you like, you can make your own pizza by topping it with sausage, bacon, or Japanese green bell pepper (piman)!

Cook time

60 minutes

Ingredients
1 pizzas (8-inch in diameter)

  • Pizza Dough
  • (A)Bread flour
    60 g
  • (A)Cake flour (Pastry flour)
    40 g
  • (A)Salt
    1/3 tsp
  • (A)Dry yeast
    1/2 tsp
  • Hot water
    50 ml
  • Olive oil
    1 tbsp
  • Tomato Sauce
  • Canned diced tomatoes
    200 g
  • Garlic
    1
  • Onion
    1/4
  • Olive oil
    1 tsp
  • Sugar
    1 tsp
  • Salt and pepper mix
    a pinch
  • Shredded pizza cheeze
    30 g
  • Basil
    3 sheets

How to make

  1. 1. Put ingredient (A) in a bowl, pour hot water over the dry yeast, and mix together.
  2. 2. When the mixture is no longer powdery and comes together, add olive oil and mix well.
  3. 3. When the olive oil is fully absorbed, place the dough on a table and knead until the color is even and the surface is smooth.
  4. 4. Place Step 3 in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Using the oven's fermentation function, ferment at 40°C (100°F) for 25 minutes until it has doubled in size. After fermentation, preheat the oven to 200°C (390°F).
  5. 5. Peel the garlic, cut it in half, and mash it with the side of a knife.
  6. 6. Roughly chop the onion.
  7. 7. Heat olive oil and Step 5 in a pan over low heat, and when the garlic starts to smell, add Step 6 and fry until tender.
  8. 8. Add the canned diced tomatoes and sugar, simmer until water is reduced to 2/3 its volume, and season with salt and pepper mix.
  9. 9. Place Step 4 on a parchment paper, and spread it into a circle about 8-inch in diameter and 0.2-inch thick.
  10. 10. Spread Step 8 on top, cover with shredded pizza cheese, and bake in an oven at 200°C (390°F) for 10 minutes.
  11. 11. When the cheese has melted and browned nicely, remove from the oven, top with basil, and it is ready.

Tips for cooking

Please make sure to preheat the oven before baking. If the oven does not have a preheating function, set the temperature and heat for 10 minutes before baking. The strength of the heat may vary depending on the type of oven and the period of use. Please make sure to follow the recipe as a guide but adjust the baking time as needed. If it browns too fast, cover it with aluminum foil. This time, we added a lot of olive oil, so it won't stick, but please dust it with flour (plain flour) if necessary.