How To Cook Pizza – Pizza Margherita With Mozzarella, Tomatoes And Basil

I like pizza. Pizza is great, and I like lots of different kinds of pizza and different toppings. You can make pizza vegetarian, or load a pizza with meat, but in either case, you can create pretty tasty, delicious pizza pies. So, what’s not to like?

And if you don’t want to make the dough yourself, you can purchase dough and still make pizza that is uniquely your own!

Here are recipes for two pizzas, one is a vegetarian pizza, Pizza Margherita. The other one is Pizza Margherita with sausage. Both pizzas are great, so try them and see which one you like best.

Pizza Margherita, sometimes called Pizza Margarita or Margarita pizza, is a pizza made with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and basil. Simple and delicious, it has just a few ingredients, and it is very good.

Pizza Margherita with sausage has all of the ingredients of Pizza Margherita, plus Italian sausage.

Serve Pizza Margherita with a simple salad, such as Simple Tomato Salad or Grape Tomatoes, Onions and Cucumber Salad.

Here is the meal plan that includes Pizza Margherita:

Here is a sample grocery shopping list to shop for the Pizza Margherita Menu. Assuming that oil, vinegar, salt and black pepper are pantry items. If not, you can add them to the grocery list.

Pizza Margherita:

Pizza Margherita with Sausage:

Ingredients For Pizza Margherita

1 Pound of Pizza Dough
2-3 Plus Tomatoes
1/2 Pounds of Fresh Mozzarella Balls
Basil

1/2 Pounds of Bulk Italian Sausage, if you are making Pizza Margherita With Sausage
Oregano, if you are making Pizza Margherita With Sausage

Olive Oil
Corn Meal
Flour

How To Make Pizza Margherita

Take the pizza dough out of the fridge and let it rest for 20-25 minutes.

If making Pizza Margherita with sausage, heat up olive oil in a saute pan. Add sausage and cook for a few minutes. Add oregano and cook the sausage until done. Cool the sausage.

Cut tomatoes into round pieces, and put them on a paper towel to get some of the moisture out. Cut mozzarella balls into round pieces. Chop the basil, or just rip the bigger leaves into a few smaller pieces.

Spread some cornmeal on a cookie sheet. Pre-heat the oven to 375F.

Put a bit of flour on a large cutting board. Use a rolling pit or your fingers to make a pizza out of the dough. Use a fork to prick the pizza. Put the pizza on the cookie sheet, brush with a bit of olive oil and bake in the oven for about 5 minutes.

Get the dough out of the oven, cool it for a bit, add mozzarella, tomatoes, about 3/4 of the basil and sausage, if using sausage. Return the pizza back to the oven and cook for 15-20 minutes, until it is done.

Once it is done, let it cool, and then top with the remaining basil.

Serve pizza Margherita with a simple salad.