Preheat the oven to 425 degrees, and just let it heat while you are prepping everything, it needs to heat for about 30 minutes or so. Also place your pizza stone in the oven to heat as well. I have the pampered chef pizza stone and it works great, I do love it!
1 ball of pizza dough (I used dough from the grocery store) you can make your own too
2 roma tomatoes, sliced
Olive Oil
salt and Pepper
10 leaves fresh basil
1 package fresh motzarella cheese
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
Put the pizza dough on waxed paper on the counter and allow it to come to room tempurature. Slice the roma tomatoes, and the cheese into thin slices. Chop garlic very finely. Roll up the basil leaves 3 or 4 at a time and slice thinly. Set all ingredients aside.
When the dough is room temp, toss it between your hands, or somehow get it patted, pulled, or rolled out to fit your pizza stone. I like to toss it between my hands to loosed it up. Then grabbing the edge of the dough, keep turning it quickly and it will stretch out. Once it gets to the desired size then you are ready to go.
Remove the hot pizza stone from the oven carefully. Put the dough that is now the same size as your pizza stone on it. Prick the dough with a fork and put back in the oven. Bake for 5 minutes.
Remove the stone and pizza and start to build the pizza. Drizzle Olive oil and spread with a brush so the dough is covered with a light coating of oil. Sprinkle heavily with sea salt and pepper. Next arrange the motzarella slices on the dough, then the tomatoes, and garlic, then top with the basil.
Put back into the oven and bake for 10 to 15 minutes until done.
I do believe the heated stone is the secret for success on this one, enjoy!
What is your favorite kind of pizza?
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