Classic Cheese Pizza
Sometimes all you want at the end of the day is a simple cheese pizza. This recipe turns simple into sublime with the addition of an exceptional pizza dough, low-moisture mozzarella cheese, and an easy to make tomato sauce that hits all of the right sweet and savory notes to marry all of the flavors in this pie. A simple garnish of fresh herbs, and you've got perfection on a plate.
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Basic Pizza Sauce
Simple is best when it comes to tomato sauce. In our many rounds of testing, we tried cooked, raw, canned, and jarred tomato sauces and found the best flavor came from a raw sauce based onMuir Glen Organic Tomato Sauce.Open the can, grate in a little garlic, add a glug of olive oil, and stir in some fresh oregano, salt, and pepper. Spooned onto dough, it has bright acid and sweet-savory flavor that's the star of a cheese pizza and lets other toppings shine.
1 (15-oz.) can Muir Glen; Organic Tomato Sauce
2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
2 medium garlic cloves, grated on a Microplane
1 1/2 tsp. chopped fresh oregano
3/4 tsp. fine sea salt
1/4 tsp. black pepper
Stir together all ingredients in a bowl. Use immediately, or cover and refrigerate up to 2 days.—Hunter Lewis