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Pizza margherita

Valli Little · taste.com.au · 2009 · Original

Neapolitaninferred from the title

DietVegetarian. Not vegan: freshly grated parmesan, bocconcini.

Against 5,130 pizza recipes

Neapolitan style, one of 207 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.

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

Tradition: 55 to 70% hydration · 800 to 950°F bake (this recipe: 464°F)

Baker's percentages

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

Flour

300g

Water

n/a

Hydration

n/a

Salt

n/a

Yeast

2.33%

Oil

0%

Sauce

n/a

Cheese

40g

Dough weight

307g

Flour or hydration falls outside the parsable range, so this dough sits out the charts.

Process

Bake temp

464°F / 240°C

Bake time

8 to 10 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

stone

Ingredients (8)

  • sauce tomatotomato passata * or roasted-tomato sugon/a
  • cheese otherfreshly grated parmesan40 ml · 40g
  • sauce tomato8 cherry tomatoesn/a
  • oilExtra virgin olive oiln/a
  • flourplain flour300g
  • yeast7g sachet dry active yeast7g
  • sugarm caster sugarn/a
  • oilm olive oiln/a

Toppings (3)

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

  • post bakechopped basil leaves40 ml · 40g
  • over cheesearlic clove
  • over cheese4 bocconcini

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