Classic Margherita Pizza
A Classic Margherita Pizza made with delicious dough, olive oil, crushed tomatoes, garlic, mozzarella, and basil always hits the spot when you need a quick and easy dinner recipe!

Margherita Pizza
I’ve always been one to lean towards more adventurous flavors when it comes to pizza, but every now and then, all I crave is that class Margherita Pizza and nothing else will do. You just can’t beat the fresh and earthy ingredients of this classic pizza.What Is A Margherita Pizza?
Pizza Margherita is a typical Neapolitan pizza, made with tomatoes, mozzarella, fresh basil, salt and extra-virgin olive oil. It is said that the original was not made with garlic, but it’s an ingredient commonly found in the pizza today.Where Did Margherita Pizza Come From?
When Queen Margherita visited the village of Naples Italy in the 1890s, the people prepared her and the King a marvelous feast, but the Queen wanted to eat what the people ate. So they had Rafaelle Esposito, the owner of Pizzeria di Pietro e Basta Cosi, prepare them a pizza. But he couldn’t prepare a traditional pizza, he wanted to make it a special pizza, one fit for a Queen. The Queen had never had pizza before and she loved it so much she wrote Esposito a letter of thanks, and so Esposito called it Pizza Margherita after the Queen. And from that point on, everyone loved pizza!Margherita Pizza
Ingredients
- 1 package Pillsbury’s Best™ refrigerated classic crust pizza dough
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3/4 cup Muir Glen Organic crushed tomatoes
- 3 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 8 ounces fresh mozzarella pearls patted dry
- 1/2 cup fresh small basil leaves
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Place oven rack in low position. Unroll dough with oven-safe parchment paper onto ungreased large cookie sheet (dough bakes on paper). Brush with olive oil. Bake 7 minutes. Remove from oven.
- Top crust with tomatoes and garlic. Top with mozzarella cheese.
- Bake 13 to 18 minutes longer or until crust is golden brown. Top with basil.
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Having storebought pizza dough is my go to for easy weeknight meals. I also love a classic like this!
Totally agree with you on the thin crust pizza, I say go big or go home! This looks so tempting, and I use Pillsbury pie crust all the time, but I didn’t realize they’d come out with a pizza version, yay!
Pizza looks absolutely amazing! Love fresh Basil tastes so much fresh and is a good way to show off fresh ingredients.
MMmm, this right here is my favorite type of classic pizza! Perfection!
Sometimes you just can’t beat a classic! This looks like thee perfect recipe. Thanks for sharing!