Pizza Margherita

Classic pizza...

• Ready In: 8 mins
• Yields: 4 pizzas

Ingredients

•  pizza dough
• 3  tablespoons olive oil
• 1⁄2 cup  coarse cornmeal
• 1  cup  neapolitan  pizza sauce
• 1⁄2 lb fresh mozzarella cheese, drained and sliced thin
• 20  fresh basil leaves, cut into thin strips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 475 degrees.
2. Place pizza stone on bottom of oven.
3. Stretch each ball of pizza dough between hands until it's approximately 12" across and 1/4" thick with a border that is a little thicker.
4. Brush the dough sheets with oil.
5. Put the rounds on a mealed peel or baking sheet.
6. Spread app. 1/4 cup of the sauce on each round.
7. Divide cheese between the 4 rounds and place it on the sauce.
8. Repeat with the basil.
9. Slide a round onto the preheated pizza stone.
10. Bake for about 8 minutes or until the cheese is melted.
11. Slide peel or baking sheet under cooked pizza, remove from oven and cool.
12. Repeat with remaining dough rounds.