M is for Margherita Pizza

First and foremost, let me say that the most important rule for pizza is to just eat what you like…, but Neapolitan Pizza is more regulated than Wall St and TSA combined and maybe that’s why Naples has some of the best pizza in the world no matter which pizzeria you go to. Seriously, I lived there for a month and didn’t have a bad pizza once. It’s impressive, but THAT is what rules are for. Not to condemn other pizzas as inferior, but to maintain a quality that you can count on. Bravissimo, Napoli! La tua pizza è buonissima.

Warning: This recipe really doesn’t work out too well if you are cooking in a home oven. You really need something like a @gozney Arc or an @oonihq pizza oven to get up to a high enough temperature… or a friend like @leannecitrone who has the setup of my DREAMS.

Thanks so much for having us over for an amazing pizza night.

For anyone who want’s to try their hand at an authentic Margherita… here you go! It’s in metric because… it’s Italian.

Ingredients:
- Water 1l
- Salt 40-60 g
- Yeast (based on temperature and humidity):
Fresh yeast - 0.1-3 grams
Mother Yeast - 5-20% of flour used
Dry yeast - 1/3 of fresh yeast used (1 gram of dry for 3 grams of fresh)
- Flour 1,600-1,800g

Mix the dough in the order of the video, water, yeast, flour, and then salt once the dough has formed.

Knead for a few minutes, but most of the gluten will develop during the first 2hr rest under a damp cloth.

Form little balls of 200 - 280 g, to obtain a pizza with a diameter between 22 and 35 cm. Rest those covered for 2 hours, then place them in the fridge for another 6-22 hours.

Remove the doughballs an hour before you’re going to cook them so that they can return to room temp.

Spread them in as little flour as possible, and top with

Peeled and crushed San Marzano Tomatoes 60 – 80g (1% salted)*
Buffalo or cow mozzarella/ fior di latte** 80 – 100g
Fresh basil some leaves
Grated hard cheese (optional) 5 - 7g
Extra virgin olive oil 6 – 7g (tolerance +20%)

*Peeled S.Marzano tomato from Agro Sarnese-Nocerino. D.O.P. The use of fresh or industrial peeled tomatoes “Roma type long tomatoes”, preferably Italian, is permitted
The procedure involves preparing the tomato sauce by salting it and not adding salt directly to the pizza disc. In detail, for 1kg of peeled tomato the quantity of salt to add is approximately 10-12g, in the case of S. Marzano tomato, which is already a tastier product, the quantity to add is approximately 7-10g per kg.

**Mozzarella Buffalo mozzarella from Campania D.O.P.

#margherita #pizza #italianfood #margheritapizza #neapolitanpizza

[jaystevens]

"Babe it's in the official rules. If we want an authentic margherita pizza, we have to watch the Matrix and then all the John Wick movies."

[nineCryptids]

The fact the pizza is cooked in less than two minutes makes me incredibly happy, cause when I’m cooking pizza in an oven it feels like I have to wait forever

[nickepshtein]

Finally I can combine my two hobbies: movies and cooking

[adam_p]

Mozzarella is white
Tomato is red
Basil is green
Red, white and green are the colours of the Italian flag. Queen Margarita was presented with this pizza during her visit to a poor village in Napoli. It was the only ingredients they could afford. She was a favourite of the people because of her charitable work for the less privileged

[jesskeenan]

Love this channel! Keep up the good work. I love that you are laying out the official way to make dishes in a simple and concise manner. I can’t think of a cooking channel I like more. Thanks for the work! Keep ‘em coming please!

[Noah-ywuv]

I like this guy because he’s calm and the opposite of many other food “influencers”.

[phukkya-fielings]

“Wood fired pizza? Well how’s pizza gonna get a job now?”

[ItsCloudGod]

customer: can i have a margherita pizza please?
chef: sure just wait like 2 days

[bram]

I genuinely can't understand how this mans videos aren't more popular. Your content is amazing!!

[perfectsoulmates]

Instructions unclear. I fell asleep watching the fast and the furious movies and the oven burnt the margherita pizza to a crisp ...

[Hopdon]

telling me which movies i am allowed to watch while the dough is resting really upped my game, thanks man.

[OphanielH]

Beautiful pizza and your friend deserved that pizza for letting you use her awesome oven

[vydel]

I just want to say, I've been watching your shorts for about a year and wondered why you only got a few views. I'm so glad to see your channel took off! Congratulations!

[whitefang]

Really like your content. Be it the cooking itself or the presentation. Keep up the great work!

[runa]

The cinematography is not getting enough love. It's so well done 💖

[gabsgabbie]

Ok, did you just say that I can make good pizza and measure time using Keanu Reeves's movies? LOVE IT! My kind of recipe, my kind of day!! 😂❤️

[AI.Overlord.X]

Cooks in 90 seconds.. I'd be on that show, "My 600lb life" if I had an oven that could cook pizza in 90 seconds. 😅

[Roach]

her oven is crazy, would love to own something like that

[cluelessdev]

I seriously love the way you present your videos, You deserve way more views man, Love your short-form content!

[federicogiannitrapani]

You really did an amazing job mate, but like an Italian I want to tell you some tips. 1) squeeze tomato in a bowl and add olive oil, salt and pepper to create a "salsa" 2) the basil and the oil must go on pizza at the end outside of the oven (cooked basil taste like burn things). Try and you absolutely love it