Easy Neapolitan Pizza Recipe

Name: Easy Neapolitan Pizza Recipe
Cook time: 7 min
Ingredients: 0.3333333333333333 cup Easy Pizza Sauce**; 2 oz 2 to 3 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese; 0 each Parmesan cheese; 0 each Kosher salt; 0 each Semolina flour or cornmeal

Sonja · acouplecooks.com · 2025 · Original

Neapolitan (aspirational)

Neapolitan (Naples, Campania): thin flexible base, puffy leoparded cornicione, ~90s at ~900F, fior di latte or bufala, crushed raw tomato

Style norms: 55–70% hydration · 800–950°F bake (this recipe: 500°F)

Baker's percentages

Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%) — the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.

Flour

—

Water

—

Hydration

—

Salt

—

Yeast

—

Oil

—

Sauce

67g

Cheese

85g

Dough weight

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Process

Bake temp

500°F / 260°C

Bake time

7-7 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

Ingredients (5)

sauce tomatoEasy Pizza Sauce**0.3333333333333333 cup · 66.7g
cheese mozzarella2 to 3 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese2 oz · 85.1g
cheese otherParmesan cheese—
saltKosher salt—
flourSemolina flour or cornmeal—

Toppings (2)

Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.

over cheese1 ball Homemade Pizza Dough*
over cheese2 basil leaves

Pizza Lab

Baker's percentages

Process

Ingredients (5)

Toppings (2)