3 easy Italian recipes with buffalo mozzarella: Pizza Margherita, Calzone, and Stromboli

We present to you the real Italian connection: pizza Margherita, calzone, and Stromboli, three Italian recipes with buffalo mozzarella cheese that are so easy-to-cook, as they are popular in Italian gastronomy.

These three Italian recipes with buffalo mozzarella preserve the essence of Italian gastronomy: simplicity. All you need is fresh seasonal ingredients and basic cooking techniques to enhance the natural flavor of these three basics of Italian cuisine.

Basic Pizza Dough

For all three Italian recipes with buffalo mozzarella that we bring today, you will have two options: buy basic pizza dough, or prepare it yourself. Here the recipe for basic pizza dough:

Ingredients

1 pack of active yeast

1 cup of warm water (110 °F)

1/4 cup lard

2 teaspoons sugar

3 to 4 cups flour

2 teaspoons salt

Olive oil

Preparation

• Make a paste whisking the yeast, water, sugar, and lard together in an electric mixing bowl. Add the flour and salt, and mix it.

• Remove the dough from the bowl.

• Grease the bowl with olive oil and place the dough back in it.

• Cover it with plastic wrap and let it rise until double in size (about an hour).

• Put the dough onto a floured surface and divide it in half.

• Roll the dough into balls, cover, and let it rest for 20 minutes.

• The dough is ready, and you can begin to cook any of these three Italian recipes with buffalo mozzarella.

Pizza Margherita

The first in our list of Italian recipes with buffalo mozzarella is considered the authentic pizza by many. The "history" began in 1889 when king Umberto I and Queen Margherita visited Naples.