Needing a quick and delicious dinner that’s ready in under 10 minutes? This personal sized Margherita pizza is bursting with fresh tomatoes, basil and creamy mozzarella cheese. It has an added surprise of little dollops of pesto that add a pop of flavor beyond just the traditional pizza sauce. Dinner doesn’t have to be complicated or take a long time to be delicious. I used store bought pesto for this recipe and a small premade pizza crust. If you have plenty of basil growing you can make homemade pesto.
Individual Margherita Pizza
Fresh mozzarella, cherry tomatoes and basil pizza
Ingredients
- 1 individual pizza crust
- 3 Tbsp red pizza sauce
- 1 Tbsp pesto
- 3 slices fresh mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup halved cherry tomatoes
- 10-12 basil leaves
- sprinkle sea salt
- fresh cracked black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F or preheat air fryer/pizza oven.
- Spread pizza sauce evenly on top of crust. Then dollop a small spoonful of pesto over the red sauce in 5-6 spots. Cut 3 mozzarella slices in half and evenly place on top of crust.
- Cut cherry tomatoes in half and place all over the pizza crust with the cut side facing up. Sprinkle tomatoes with sea salt. Crack fresh pepper all over the top of the pizza.
- Bake pizza for 5 minutes until crust is golden brown and crispy and the mozzarella is melted. Remove pizza from oven. Cut basil leaves into strips and sprinkle all over top of pizza.
