La vera pizza margherita (authentic Neapolitan cheese pizza) – Campania – Living a Life in Colour

Ingredients

• 1 recipe Pizza Dough
• 480 grams very good quality tomato (if not available, use tinned San Marzano tomatoes), peel the tomatoes, deseed, and cut into 1 cm cubes (can substitute with simple tomato sauce )
• 30 ml extra virgin olive oil
• 600 grams fresh mozzarella (preferably mozzarella di bufala (buffalo mozzarella)), torn into 25 gram pieces and placed in a strainer to remove excess liquid
• 12 basil leaves
• Sea salt and pepper