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Margherita pizza with side salad

Margherita pizza with side salad. Ingredients, step-by-step method and estimated nutrition per serving. Save your food plans in My Timber.

By Shift Some Timber editorial team · Published · Updated 2 November 2026

Two plates, each with half a Margherita pizza and a lettuce, cucumber and tomato salad

Makes 2 servings · About 25 minutes

Ingredients

  • 150g ready-made pizza base
  • 30g tomato purée
  • 80g fresh mozzarella, drained
  • 100g lettuce
  • 100g cucumber
  • 100g tomato
  • 2g fresh basil

Equipment

  • oven
  • oven shelf or tray as packet directs
  • chopping board
  • knife
  • bowl
  • spoon
  • oven gloves
  • kitchen scales

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to the temperature on the ready-made base packet; prepare the toppings while it heats. Use one 150g ready-made base, not raw dough. Allow longer if your base requires longer cooking.
  2. Mix the tomato purée with 30ml water and spread thinly over the base. Pat the drained mozzarella dry, tear it into small pieces and space them over the sauce.
  3. Keep the fresh basil aside and scatter it over the cooked pizza immediately before serving.
  4. Cook for the full time on the base packet, until the base is crisp, the cheese has melted and the centre is piping hot. The reference base takes 7–9 minutes at 200°C/180°C fan; follow your own packet. Do not put a glass board in the oven.
  5. Wash and dry the lettuce, cucumber and tomato; chop and divide between two plates. Cut the pizza in half and serve half with each salad. All toppings, cheese and salad are included in the two portions. Eat immediately; the reference base instructs not to reheat once cooled.

Estimated nutrition

Per serving
Energy359.8 kcal
Protein15.5 g
Carbohydrate42.7 g
Fat13.9 g
Fibre3.8 g
SaturatesNot available

Ingredient-by-ingredient CoFID 2021 or explicitly named UK product-label calculation. Per serving; unrounded decimal inputs, final values rounded to 0.1. Traces treated as zero; N/blank retained as unknown, never zero-filled. Estimated nutrition: ingredient source arithmetic checked. Independent human editorial review waived by the owner; no physical cooking, timing or clinical validation.

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Food safety and storage

Author estimates; no physical cooking or timing trial. Packet instructions and doneness govern.