Learn how to make authentic Italian Margherita Pizza with The Bombay Chef Varun Inamdar.

If having Italian Food in your kitchen is your dream? Here is how your dream comes true. Chef Varun brings to your kitchen authentic delicious Margherita Pizza from scratch only on Rajshri Food.

Ingredients

For soft pizza dough
1 kg refined flour
1 tsp sugar
2 tsp salt
30 gms fresh yeast or 10 gms dry yeast
50 ml vegetable oil
280- 300 ml water

For the pizza sauce
500 gms tomatoes
10 -12 basil leaves
2 - 3 garlic pods
2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt

For the topping
Italian mozzarella cheese
Basil leaves

Method:
Step 1 ( Dough )
- To make the dough take some sugar, yeast and dough and mix it well and keep it aside for 4-5 minutes then add it into the dough add oil, salt and water & knead it into a soft dough
- Once the dough is ready keep it aside for 20 minutes, by covering it with a wet cloth

Step 2 ( Pizza Sauce )
- Add the tomatoes into boiling water and once they are blanched add them into cold water
- Peel them off and cut them into half and remove the seeds
- In the blender add tomatoes, salt, sugar and cloves of garlic and run it into a smooth paste
- Add fresh basil leaves and extra virgin olive oil and let it marinate for 10-15 minutes

Step 3 ( Rolling Into Thin Crust )
- Take a handful of dough and cover the surface with flour and then roll the dough into thin crust and keep it over baking tray
- Top it up with tomato sauce
- Add some mozzarella cheese
- Bake it in pre heated oven at 200 degrees for 15- 20 minutes

- Garnish it with extra virgin olive oil & fresh basil leaves.

The Margherita Pizza is ready!