So lovely people here we are on the top of a hill in Naples, now we're gonna make the most famous pizza in the world the Pizza Margherita, named after the Queen Yeah, of Italy, yes! This Moorish margarita boasts sweet tomatoes, creamy mozzarella and fragrant basil, believe me this could be the best pizza you ever make. Every amazing pizza starts life with an incredible dough, so one litre of water goes in, not freezing, not warm, from the tap cold to make eight to ten pizzas for a family cook up, dissolve ten grams of salt in the water, then add 1.8 kilos of fine Italian zero-zero flour and some fresh yeast. I'm gonna put into here five grams of yeast, use give it a really good mix and get kneading until the dough becomes elastic and springy This should take about ten minutes, here let me take over, yeah you take over hold it, you got to help the old man, you know what i mean? I'm just pulling it back and just tucking it in and I'm kind of pushing it in with my heel, I'm bringing it back like that Look there's no right or wrong you can keep moving it, as long as you're stretching the dough That's the only thing that matters, look at that, a lovely dough Let your dough relax for about an hour and simply divide it into ten equal pieces, around about the size of a cricket ball, you can see how alive this dough is, because as soon as I put it down, see how it moves right and that's just the elasticity of the gluten because we've worked it, the dough needs about six hours to prove in a fridge or a cool place, even better make it the day before and leave it overnight Next onto the base, just use your fingers to shape it now when it comes to the ingredients tinned tomatoes are really, really important, so just really nice organic plum tomatoes scrunched up with your bare hands, they're not cooked no garlic, no herbs, so simple, so, so simple, we're going to go Four tablespoons specifically of the fantastic tomatoes, a little bit of salt goes on top of our tomato and then Gennaro is gonna add 80 grams of cow's mozzarella, so the buffalo mozzarella is beautiful but it's too wet for the classic margarita and then on top of that we'll put five or six beautiful leaves of torn basil and a little parmigiano-reggiano and then a nice little drizzle of extra virgin olive oil Over it goes look at that, slide it onto a floured board, jiggle it about to stop it sticking and Get it into the oven, if you're cooking in a normal oven at home add it to a floured baking tray or Pizza stone at the bottom of the oven, this is about 400 degrees Celsius right, so at home you'll probably only get to 260 degrees so It'll take about seven minutes at home, about three and a half minutes here There you go my friend Pizza Margherita, delicious flavour, that cheese is delicious the tomatoes are so sweet, the basil got such perfume and you got that lovely sort of crisp but spongy dough, in a way it's a lesson on simplicity isn't it? You've got to get it absolutely right, I just love it! Pizza Margherita above Naples! If somebody else makes it better, I don't want to know Laughter
