Make genuine pizza marinara at residence with tomato sauce, oregano, garlic, and olive oil. This basic Neapolitan pizza is easy and naturally dairy-free.
My formative pizza expertise was in Naples, Italy, the birthplace of pizza, at a well-known generations-old pizzeria referred to as Da Michaele. Right here they serve solely two flavors, probably the most basic of all Neapolitan pizza: Pizza Margherita with mozzarella, tomatoes and basil, and Pizza Marinara, which has tomatoes solely, with no cheese.
My oh my, was it epic! Right here I’ve recreated a Pizza Marinara recipe that tastes like what like I had in Naples. Getting this pizza proper at house is an train in ingredient high quality and approach, however when you style it: you’ll grow to be an instantaneous convert!
What Is Pizza Marinara?
Pizza marinara is the best of basic Neapolitan pizza: that’s, pizza within the type that originates from Naples, Italy. This pizza has easy toppings, a dough that’s skinny within the center and puffy on the skin, normally baked in a wood-fired oven at tremendous excessive temperatures.
Pizza marinara has no cheese: simply tomato sauce, thinly sliced garlic, and oregano. It’s much like pizza margherita, however with out the cheese. As you may think about, with solely a handful of components, the flavour of pizza marinara relies on the standard of the components.
Components You’ll Want
For the dough: Use one ball of my selfmade pizza dough for the very best outcome. Alex and I’ve spent over a decade researching our pizza dough recipes and this is absolutely the good dough. If you’d like a thinner base, the skinny crust pizza dough additionally works splendidly right here. In a pinch, store-bought dough is okay — simply convey it to room temperature earlier than stretching.
For the tomato sauce: The tomatoes are every little thing in a pizza marinara! Conventional Neapolitan pizza is made with San Marzano tomatoes, a range grown in a particular area of Italy. They’re gaining popularity right here within the US and can be found underneath many alternative manufacturers.
After plenty of recipe testing, I’ve additionally discovered that hearth roasted tomatoes give a fair sweeter, extra complicated outcome proper out of the can. My selfmade pizza sauce recipe makes use of simply hearth roasted tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, dried oregano, and salt, blended till clean. It’s so easy that I’ve it memorized!
For the toppings: All you want here’s a thinly sliced garlic clove, recent oregano, salt and olive oil.
Tools You’ll Want
So as to take advantage of genuine pizza marinara, you’ll want a pizza stone for baking it. Traditional Neapolitan pizza ovens attain as much as 1000°F and prepare dinner the pizzas in only a minute or two. Your normal oven can solely stand up to 500°F. The pizza stone helps to get warmth underneath the pizza itself; it makes it crispy on the underside however delicate on the within. Listed below are the instruments you’ll want:
- Pizza stone: Right here’s my favourite pizza stone, and some tips on easy methods to use a pizza stone.
- Pizza peel: It is a paddle used to slip the pizza onto the recent pizza stone within the oven. We advocate this Customary pizza peel or this Conveyor pizza peel.
- Pizza oven (non-compulsory): If you wish to step up your pizza recreation, conventional artisan pizza is cooked at temperatures means hotter than your normal oven can obtain. We’ve discovered a comparatively cheap pizza oven that heats to 1000°F in simply 10 minutes! Right here’s extra about easy methods to use an Ooni pizza oven.
How one can Make Pizza Marinara
Listed below are the fundamental steps, or you may leap to the recipe beneath:
Step 1: Make the dough. The dough wants about quarter-hour to return collectively and 45 minutes to relaxation at room temperature. (Or use my Ooni pizza dough recipe for a pizza oven.)
Step 2: Make the pizza sauce. Mix all sauce components collectively till clean.
Step 3: Preheat. Place a pizza stone or baking stone within the oven and preheat to 500°F for 30 to 45 minutes so it’s absolutely sizzling earlier than the pizza goes on. When you’ve got a pizza oven just like the Ooni, preheat till it reaches 800–950°F, which solely takes about 10–quarter-hour.
Step 4: Stretch the dough. Use your palms to softly stretch the ball of dough right into a circle: take a look at easy methods to stretch pizza dough for a full information.
Step 5: Prime and bake. Mud a pizza peel generously with semolina or cornmeal: this lets the dough slide cleanly onto the stone. Place the dough on the peel. Spoon the pizza sauce in a skinny, even layer, spreading it with the again of a spoon. Prime with thinly sliced garlic. Slide the pizza onto the preheated stone and bake for five to 7 minutes in a house oven, or about 60 to 90 seconds in a pizza oven, till the crust is properly charred.
Step 6: Garnish and serve. Take away from the oven and prime with recent oregano, a pinch of kosher salt, and a superb drizzle of additional virgin olive oil. Slice and serve.
What to Serve With It
Pizza marinara is a meal by itself, however a couple of easy sides spherical out the expertise fantastically:
- A easy arugula salad with lemon and parmesan
- A Caprese salad
- Marinated olives or am antipasti platter
- A glass of Chianti or Italian white wine
Storage and Make Forward Ideas
Leftover pizza retains within the fridge for as much as 3 days in an hermetic container. To reheat, as an alternative, place slices in a dry skillet over medium warmth and canopy with a lid for two–3 minutes. You can even reheat in an air fryer (the very best technique) or a 375°F oven immediately on the rack.
Pizza dough freezes properly: see easy methods to freeze pizza dough.
Dietary Notes
This pizza marinara recipe is vegetarian and vegan.
Pizza Marinara
Make genuine pizza marinara at residence with tomato sauce, oregano, garlic, and olive oil. This basic Neapolitan pizza is easy and naturally dairy-free.
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Cook dinner Time: 10 minutes
- Complete Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 8 slices 1x
- Class: Primary Dish
- Technique: Baked
- Delicacies: Italian
Components
- 1 ball Finest Pizza Dough (or Meals Processor Dough or Skinny Crust Dough)
- ½ cup Simple Pizza Sauce
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 handful recent oregano
- Semolina flour or cornmeal, for dusting the pizza peel
- Kosher salt
- Additional virgin olive oil, for drizzling
Directions
- Make the pizza dough: Observe the Finest Pizza Dough recipe to arrange the dough. (This takes about quarter-hour to make and 45 minutes to relaxation.)
- Place a pizza stone within the oven and preheat to 500°F. OR preheat your pizza oven (right here’s the pizza oven we use).
- Make the pizza sauce: Make the Simple Pizza Sauce.
- Put together the toppings: Thinly slice the garlic clove. Chop the oregano leaves.
- Bake the pizza: When the oven is prepared, mud a pizza peel with cornmeal or semolina flour. (If you happen to don’t have a pizza peel, you should utilize a rimless baking sheet or the again of a rimmed baking sheet. However a pizza peel is properly definitely worth the funding!) Stretch the dough right into a circle; see How one can Stretch Pizza Dough for directions. Then gently place the dough onto the pizza peel.
- Unfold the pizza sauce over the dough utilizing the again of a spoon to create a skinny layer. Prime with thinly sliced garlic.
- Use the pizza peel to rigorously switch the pizza onto the preheated pizza stone. Bake the pizza till the cheese and crust are properly browned, about 5 to 7 minutes within the oven (or 1 minute in a pizza oven).
- Take away from the oven. Garnish with a drizzle of olive oil, a couple of pinches of kosher salt, and the recent oreagno. Slice into items and serve instantly.
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