Margherita Pizza
Healthy Homemade Pizza

This easy Margherita pizza recipe makes a great healthy pizza recipe for a cocktail party or as a main dinner dish.

Healthy pizza recipe was first created in the late 1800's in Naples. It was named after Queen Margherita of Savoy after she was served a pizza resembling the colors of the Italian flag.

These colors, of course, came from the tomato, mozzarella and basil. Voila, the Margherita pie was born and is still going strong today.

Many say you need a NY style or Neapolitan style crust to have a true pizza Margherita. And since the topping and ingredients are few, make sure you use really fresh stuff.

Fresh crushed tomatoes or canned tomatoes work better for this type of pizza then tomato sauce. Fresh basil and slices of mozzarella round out this awesome pizza.

This pizza recipe makes a perfect appetizer at a shower or cocktail party.

Ingredients

1 prepared pizza dough recipe (can use refrigerated dough too)
Cooking spray
1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil (will need a little more for brushing on the dough)
1 garlic clove, halved
4 plum tomatoes, thinly sliced (about 3/4 pound)
1 ball of mozzarella cheese, thinly sliced (can use 1 cup shredded fresh mozzarella cheese)
2 teaspoon balsamic vinegar
1/2 cup thinly sliced fresh basil
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon black pepper