Pizza Margherita

Ingredients

• 260 g bread flour
• 220 g lukewarm water
• 1 tsp instant yeast
• 1 tsp sugar
• 3 Tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp salt
• 3 heaped Tbsp pomodoro sauce
• 1/2 c shredded mozzarella
• 1 Tbsp dried basil

Steps

1. Whisk yeast with sugar, oil and water in a mixing bowl until dissolved.
2. Mix in flour and salt to form a shaggy dough.
3. Oil your hands, then stretch and fold the mixture over itself at least three times. Cover and rest for 30 minutes.
4. Make another stretch and fold, cover and leave to rise about 2 hours.
5. Once doubled in volume, generously flour a large piece of parchment. Gently pour the dough onto it without deflating it, shape into a ball and flour well underneath. Cover with a bowl and rest 15 minutes.
6. Preheat the oven at its maximum temperature with the tray inside for 35 minutes.
7. Meanwhile, press the dough out from the centre, keeping the edges thick and the middle thin.
8. Spread pomodoro sauce over the pizza, then add mozzarella followed by dried basil.
9. Put the parchment on cardboard and slide onto the preheated oven tray. Bake 9 minutes, no longer, or the dough will become hard.
10. Serve the pizza and enjoy.