Recipes
Margherita Pizza
By Ooni
The classic Margherita Pizza is a simple yet delicious recipe; the perfect starting point if you’re new to the world of pizza making. Creamy mozzarella and delicious, homemade pizza sauce are a match made in heaven—master it with Ooni!
Makes one 12" x 16" pizza.
Servings: 1
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 minute
- 8/11.6oz (250/330g) Classic Pizza Dough ball
- 4 tbsp Classic Pizza Sauce (see note below)
- 2oz (56.6g) mozzarella, torn into pieces
Directions:
- Prepare your pizza dough ahead of time. Our guide to making the perfect Classic Pizza Dough covers everything you need to know.
- For the sauce for this pizza, we recommend preparing our easy Classic Pizza Sauce. With a hint of garlic, salt and basil, it's the ideal pizza sauce that will help to bring out the flavors in the other ingredients used here.
- Fire up your Ooni pizza oven. Aim for 932 degrees F (500 degrees C) on the stone baking board inside. You can check the temperature inside your oven quickly and easily using an infrared thermometer.
- Using a small amount of flour, dust your Ooni pizza peel. Stretch the pizza dough ball out to 12" x 16" and lay it out on your pizza peel. Top with the mozzarella.
- Slide the pizza off the peel and into your Ooni pizza oven, making sure to rotate the pizza regularly.
- Once cooked, remove the pizza from the oven and top with whole, fresh basil leaves. Serve immediately.