Pizza Margherita

Name: Pizza Margherita
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Neapolitan
Ingredients: 1 lb pizza dough (2 balls), room temperature; ¾ cup crushed San Marzano tomatoes, with a pinch of salt; 8 oz fresh mozzarella (fior di latte), torn and drained; Fresh basil leaves; Olive oil; semolina for the peel

Serve when

Serve it for the Naples scene — 'I'm in love. I'm having a relationship with my pizza.' Then order the jeans one size up, like Liz.

In the movie

Theatrical

00:47:55 Naples, at the famous pizzeria: Liz and Sofi split a blistered margherita, and Liz sums up the film's whole attitude to food — she's done with guilt, she's in a relationship with her pizza.

The margherita scene is the movie's most-quoted food moment and a love letter to Neapolitan pizza — a food so good the only reasonable responses are silence or a monologue. Liz chooses the monologue.

Ingredients

1 lb pizza dough (2 balls), room temperature
¾ cup crushed San Marzano tomatoes, with a pinch of salt
8 oz fresh mozzarella (fior di latte), torn and drained
Fresh basil leaves
Olive oil
semolina for the peel

Method

Heat the oven as hot as it goes — 550°F with a pizza steel or stone, a full hour.
Stretch each dough ball to a thin 10-inch round with a puffy rim; don't roll it, press and pull.
Spread a thin layer of crushed tomatoes, scatter the mozzarella, and slide onto the steel from a semolina-dusted peel. Give the peel a little shake before you commit — if the dough doesn't slide freely, lift the edge and throw more semolina under it.
Bake 5–7 minutes until the rim is leoparded with char and the cheese is molten.
Finish with basil and a thread of olive oil. Eat it too hot, with your hands, with somebody who won't judge you.

Beyond the recipe

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