Pizza Margherita

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons torn basil fresh
• 0.1 teaspoon pepper black freshly ground
• 3 ounces buffalo mozzarella cheese cut into small pieces
• 0.3 teaspoon kosher salt 
• 1 teaspoon olive oil extra-virgin divided
• 10 inch basic pizza dough 
• 6 slices tomatoes very thin

Equipment

• paper towels
• oven
• spatula
• pizza stone

Directions

1. Position an oven rack in the lowest setting.
2. Place a pizza stone on the lowest oven rack.
3. Preheat oven to 50
4. Preheat pizza stone 30 minutes before baking pizza.
5. Gently brush 1/2 teaspoon oil over Basic Pizza Dough. Pat tomato slices with a paper towel. Arrange cheese over dough, leaving a 1/2-inch border. Top with tomato slices. Slide dough onto preheated pizza stone, using a spatula as a guide.
6. Bake at 500 for 9 minutes or until crust is golden.
7. Remove from pizza stone.
8. Drizzle with remaining 1/2 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil.
9. Sprinkle with basil, salt, and black pepper.
10. Cut into 8 wedges.