Margherita Pizza Famous Italian Pizza

Margherita Pizza Recipe

In 1849 Emanuele Rocco recorded different pizza toppings like basil, tomatoes and thin slices of mozzarella; the mozzarella was thinly sliced, and arranged with a flower-shape over the tomato sauce, along with the basil leaves: this may be the real origin of the nameMargherita (meaning daisy)

Ingredients Of Margherita Pizza

• Pizza dough
• Passata sauce
• 1 cup Grated mozzarella cheese
• Handful of basil leaves
• Extra virgin olive oil
• Pepper

How to Make Margherita Pizza

1. Pre-heat oven at its highest mark and flour baking tray.
2. Roll out dough and place on the tray.
3. Spread a thin layer of passata and cover with mozerella cheese and sprinkle basil leaves.
4. Put the tray into the oven for 10 to 12 mintues.
5. After the pizza is baked remove from the oven and drizzle extra virgin olive oil and some pepper.
6. Garnish with fresh basil and cut into slices
7. In 1866 Francesco De Bourcard, writing about the Naples traditions,^[5] described the most commonly used pizza toppings at that time, included the ones called today pizza marinara, pizza margherita and calzone:

   The most ordinary pizzas, called coll'aglio e l'olio (with garlic and oil), are dressed with oil, and over there it's spread, as well as salt, the origanum and garlic cloves shredded minutely. Others are coverd with grated cheese and dressed with lard, and then they put over a few leaves of basil. Over the firsts is often added some small seafish; on the seconds some thin slices of mozzarella. Sometimes they use slices of prosciutto, tomato, arselle, etc... Sometimes folding the dough over itself it forms what is called calzone.