Make our California Pizza Kitchen Margherita Pizza Recipe at home tonight for your family. Almost as easy to make as frozen – But much, much better.
Photo by Amy the Nurse
California Pizza Kitchen Margherita Pizza
A California Pizza Kitchen Copycat Recipe
California Pizza Kitchen
The first California Pizza Kitchen opened in Beverly Hills in 1985. Former federal prosecutors Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax combined their passion for food with fresh high-quality ingredients to create innovative, hearth-baked pizzas such as The Original BBQ Chicken, Thai Chicken and Jamaican Jerk Chicken, cooked in an open kitchen.
The California twists on traditional pizza flavors gave California a place in the pizza pantheon alongside Chicago and New York and almost immediately CPK expanded from California to more than 250 locations in more than 30 states and 11 countries.
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California Pizza Kitchen Margherita Pizza Recipe
Make our California Pizza Kitchen Margherita Pizza Recipe at home tonight for your family. Almost as easy to make as frozen - But much, much better.
Yield: 2 Pizzas
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 1/2 teaspoon Salt
- 2 cloves Garlic minced or pressed
- 1/2 pound Plum or Roma Tomatoes sliced thinly
- Two 12-inch prepared Pizza Crusts store bought or homemade
- 2 cups Marinara Sauce of choice, store bought or homemade
- 16 ounces Mozzarella Cheese shredded or balls, cut into small pieces
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan Cheese
- 12 fresh Basil Leaves cut in strips
Instructions
- In a small bowl, combine olive oil, salt and garlic. Mix well.
- Add sliced tomatoes and toss gently to coat. Set aside to marinate at least 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Brush both pizza shells with oil from the garlic mixture.
- Pour 1 cup of marinara sauce onto each pizza crust. Spread evenly.
- Top each with 1/2 of the mozzarella (spreading the pieces evenly if using cut mozzarella balls) and Parmesan cheeses.
- Spread the marinated tomatoes evenly over the pizzas.
- Bake in a preheated oven according to shell package directions or for about 10 minutes until cheese is melted and crust is golden.
- Remove from oven.
- Scatter the basil strips over both pizzas.
- Allow to cool for 5 minutes before slicing.
- Serve hot.
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Photo of California Pizza Kitchen Margherita is by Amy the Nurse and is used by permission under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) License. Photo of “CPK” by Thomas Hawk and is used by permission under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0) License. Thank you, Amy & Thomas. Great Pictures. Photos may be “representative” of the recipe and not the actual finished dish. All photo licenses listed were correct at the time of the posting of the page. Recipe is our adaption of several recipes widely circulated on the internet. California Pizza Kitchen information courtesy of CPK.com. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.
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