Sometimes the simplest recipes are the best! Garlic marinated tomatoes, basil, and cheese come together for an easy, delicious pizza!
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Ingredients
For the pizza crust
1cupwarm waterabout 100 degrees F
1tspbrown sugar
2 1/4tspyeast
1tbspolive oil
1/2tspsalt
2 1/2cupsall purpose flour
For the pizza
4medium sized roma tomatoes
4clovesgarlicminced
1/4cupolive oil
1/4tspsalt
300g10 oz mozzarella cheese, shredded
handful of basil leavessliced into ribbons
parmesan cheese for sprinkling
Instructions
Heat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
Thinly slice the tomatoes and place in a flat-bottomed dish with sides. Add in the garlic, olive oil, and salt. Stir and set aside.
Place the water, sugar, and yeast in the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix and leave for 10 minutes.
Add the oil, salt, and flour.
Using the kneading hook, knead for 5 minutes.
Stretch into two pizzas on a greased and floured (or cornmealed) ceramic pizza stone.
Bake for 8 minutes.
Remove from oven and brush the crust with the liquid from the marinating tomatoes.
Sprinkle the crust with the mozza cheese.
Place the tomatoes on top in a single layer.
Sprinkle on the basil and some parmesan cheese.
Bake for 5-8 minutes (until the cheese is bubble and the crust is starting to turn golden)
Notes
I highly recommend the pizza stone! I made one pizza on a stone and the other on a regular baking sheet. The crust of the pizza on the baking sheet ended up browning and kind of tasting like croutons.
The recipe yields enough crust to make two thin-crust pizzas. I highly recommend keeping this as a thin crust pizza. But you can make one thicker crust if you must.