New York Pizza

Total Time: 41 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 11 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 (12 inch) pizza dough (preferably new york-style pizza dough)
• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 3/4 cup whole milk ricotta cheese
• 1 tablespoon minced garlic
• 1 3/4 cups whole-milk mozzarella cheese, coarsely shredded
• 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano

Recipe

• 1 position an oven rack on the second-lowest level in the oven and place a baking stone on the rack; position another rack in the upper third of the oven; preheat oven to 500°.
• 2 coat a 12-inch pizza screen or perforated pizza pan with cooking spray.
• 3 lay the dough on the prepared screen or pan and gently stretch dough into a 12-inch round.
• 4 top the pizza: brush the dough with 1 tablespoon olive oil; spread the ricotta evenly over the dough, leaving a ¼-inch border.
• 5 sprinkle the garlic over the top; sprinkle the mozzarella over the top.
• 6 crush the oregano between your fingers and sprinkle evenly over the cheese and crust.
• 7 drizzle the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil over the top.
• 8 place the pizza in the oven on the upper rack; bake about 8 minutes, until the crust is crisp and golden brown.
• 9 using a pizza peel, lift the pizza off the screen/pan and place the crust directly on the baking stone; remove the screen/pan from the oven.
• 10 continue baking the pizza until the bottom of the crust is golden, about 3 minutes.
• 11 using the peel, remove the pizza from the oven and transfer to a cutting board.
• 12 slice pizza into wedges and serve immediately.