Homemade Pizza

Ingredients

• 2 pizza bases
• 150 ml passata
• 200 g grated mozzarella
• 60 g pepperoni, sliced
• A few basil leaves
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 tsp dried oregano
• Salt and pepper

Method

1. Heat the oven as hot as it goes, with a tray or a stone already in there. Domestic ovens are much cooler than a pizza oven, so every degree counts.
2. Season the passata with salt and the oregano and spread it thinly — a spoonful per base, no more. Too much sauce is the usual reason a home pizza goes soggy.
3. Cheese, then toppings, then a drizzle of oil. Leave a clear centimetre around the edge.
4. Slide it onto the hot tray and bake 8–12 minutes, until the cheese is blistered in a few places and the base lifts stiffly off the tray.
5. Basil after it comes out, not before — it burns in that heat.