Dough:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon yeast
- 2/3 cup water
- 1/2 tablespoon olive oil
- pinch of kosher salt
Topping:
- 7 tomatoes
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- salt
- olive oil
- fresh basil
- Bocconcini (small mozzarella balls) cut in half
Instructions
Dough:
- Mix olive oil, water, and yeast for 5 minutes (stirring the whole time)
- Mix in flour, knead for 15 minutes on a floured surface
- Let rest 20 minutes in a bowl covered by a warm, damp cloth
- Sprinkle with salt and knead another 10 minutes
- Wrap in plastic wrap and let sit for at least 4 hours in a warmish room
- Spread out on floured surface into pizza shape
- Preheat oven and pizza pan to 500 degrees (or 550 if your oven can handle it)
- Cover with toppings and brush crust with olive oil. Bake for about 15 minutes.
Sauce:
- Chop the tomatoes roughly and chop the garlic pretty finely
- Saute garlic in olive oil for about 30 seconds to 1 minute. Add tomatoes and cook for at least 30 minutes. Add salt and oregano to taste. Add a little olive oil at the end. The sauce should thicken up a little bit.
- Put sauce on pizza, dot pizza with cheese. After cooking the pizza, top with sliced up basil. Add a sprinkle of salt on top of the pizza and let it cool for 5 minutes.