Margherita Pizza with Truffle Cheese
A classic Margherita pizza topped with homemade pizza sauce, truffle cheese, basil, fresh tomatoes and mozzarella.
Equipment
- Bread Machine
- Pizza Stone
- Pizza Peel
Ingredients
- 1½ cups fresh mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced
- 1 plum tomato, sliced
- 1½ cups black truffle pecorino cheese, shredded
- ¼ cup fresh basil leaves
For the Bread Machine Pizza Dough:
- 1 cup water
- 1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- 3 cups all purpose flour (360g)
- 1 tsp. honey
- 1 tsp. salt
- 2 tsp. active dry yeast
For The Pizza Sauce:
- 1 box Pomi strained tomatoes or 28 ounces tomato puree
- 3 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
- 1 clove minced garlic
- 1 tsp. dried oregano
- ½ tsp. sugar
- ¼ tsp. each kosher salt and crushed red pepper flakes
Instructions
- Begin by making the pizza dough: ( this recipe makes enough for two pizzas, so you can freeze half the dough if you like) Add all the ingredients to your bread machine, in the order suggested by the manufacturer of your bread machine. Select the dough cycle and press start.
- While the dough is being made in the bread machine, make the pizza sauce. In a Dutch oven heat the oil on low heat, and add the garlic. Cook for one minute and then add the tomatoes, and the rest of the ingredients. Simmer for twenty minutes. You'll only need a cup of the sauce for the pizza, but the rest can be frozen.
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees, with a pizza stone inside of it.
- When the dough cycle is done, dump the dough on to a floured board and divide in half. You will only need one ball of dough for this pizza. Press or roll the dough in to a twelve inch circle, right on a parchment covered pizza peel. Brush it with olive oil and cover it with plastic wrap and let it rise for thirty minutes. Prick the dough all over with a fork.
- Using the pizza peel, slide the parchment and dough onto the pizza stone. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove the pizza from the oven and top it with about a cup of the sauce, the tomato slices, the truffle cheese, and the mozzarella. Bake for five minutes. Top with the basil and serve.
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