Margherita Pizza
by Nicola Lando
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Easy
Frying pan pizzas are a quick and efficient way of making wonderfully crisp, puffy-based pizzas at home. Here we've kept it classic with San Marzano tomato sauce, torn mozzarella and basil leaves.
To make the pizza dough and pizza sauce, follow our recipe here
Ingredients for Margherita pizza Serves: 1
- ¼ San Marzano tomato sauce recipe (see above)
- 70g torn mozzarella
- Basil to serve
Method for Margherita pizza
- Make the pizza base following the instructions above.
- Stretch your pizza base into a circle and place onto the heated oven-safe frying pan. Spread over the tomato sauce and torn mozzarella.
- Cook under a searingly hot grill for 6-10 minutes until the crust is golden brown and the topping is bubbling.
- Once cooked, remove from under the grill. Top with torn basil.
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About the author
Nicola is co-founder and CEO at Sous Chef. She has worked in food for over ten years.
Nicola first explored cooking as a career when training at Leiths, before spending the next decade in Finance. However... after a stage as a chef at a London Michelin-starred restaurant, Nicola saw the incredible ingredients available only to chefs. And wanted access to them herself. So Sous Chef was born.
Today, Nicola is ingredients buyer and a recipe writer at Sous Chef. She frequently travels internationally to food fairs, and to meet producers. Her cookbook library is vast, and her knowledge of the storecupboard is unrivalled. She tastes thousands of ingredients every year, to select only the best to stock at Sous Chef.
Nicola shares her knowledge of ingredients and writes recipes to showcase those products. Learning from Sous Chef's suppliers and her travels, Nicola writes many of the recipes on the Sous Chef website. Nicola's recipes are big on flavour, where the ingredients truly shine (although that's from someone who cooks for hours each day - so they're rarely tray-bakes!).
