Caprese Pizza
Ingredients
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- 1 recipe Best Pizza Dough, Thin Crust Pizza Dough, or Pizza Oven Dough
- 1/3 cup homemade pizza sauce
- 1/2 cup shredded whole milk mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup grated fresh mozzarella (hand grated from a ball)
- 1 handful quartered cherry tomatoes
- Kosher salt and fresh ground black pepper, to taste
- Fresh basil, for garnish
- Balsamic reduction, for garnish (purchased or homemade)
Instructions
- Make the pizza dough: Follow the Best Pizza Dough, Thin Crust Pizza Dough, or Pizza Oven Dough recipes to prepare the dough. (This takes about 15 minutes to make and 45 minutes to rest.)
- Place a pizza stone in the oven and preheat to 500°F or preheat your pizza oven.
- Make the pizza sauce: Make the Homemade Pizza Sauce. (You’ll use about ⅓ cup for the pizza; reserve the remaining sauce and refrigerate for up to 1 week.)
- Bake the pizza: When the oven is ready, dust a pizza peel with cornmeal or semolina flour. (If you don’t have a pizza peel, you can use a rimless baking sheet or the back of a rimmed baking sheet, but a pizza peel is well worth the investment!)
- Stretch the dough into a circle, then gently place the dough onto the pizza peel.
- Spread a thin layer of the pizza sauce over the dough.
- Add the shredded mozzarella cheese and grate on the fresh mozzarella, then top with a few pinches of kosher salt.
- Use the pizza peel to carefully transfer the pizza onto the preheated pizza stone. Bake the pizza until the cheese and crust are nicely browned, about 5 to 7 minutes in the oven or 1 to 2 minutes in a pizza oven.
- Allow the pizza to cool for a minute or two before adding the cherry tomatoes and basil on top (whole leaves, lightly torn, or thinly sliced). Drizzle with balsamic reduction, slice into pieces, and serve immediately.
Find it online: https://www.acouplecooks.com/caprese-pizza/