This simplistic sourdough pizza crust recipe will have you making awesome homemade pizza in your own kitchen in no time! The crust is chewy, tasty, and wholesome. No more long wait times for pizza.
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It’s Friday night, the end of a busy work week. Maybe you had to juggle all the day to day aspects all week and now you need a break.
Well, I’m right here with you! Everyone needs there chill days without worrying about adding dinner time shenanagins into the mix.
You dial up the pizza restaurant and place the order. The wait time is between 115-186 minutes. As a matter of fact, this was a real quote I got when I ordered pizza the last time. I don’t know about you but, I was ready for pizza within a reasonable time, not the next day.
Making this sourdough pizza crust recipe cuts down on all of that. All it takes is a few minutes of your time the night before or the same day and you get to use your sourdough starter.
Let the pizza dough double in size and now you’re on the way to making homemade pizza with a chewy and crunchy sourdough pizza crust.
Likewise, you can also make it fun for the kids and let them help out or create there very own original pizza. Sounds like a win win to me!
Benefits of using sourdough starter for pizza crust:
- Easier to digest
- the fermentation process allows the breakdown of the gluten so it’s easier to digest
- slow fermentation process
- Great for gut health
- Acts as a prebiotic that provides food for the good bacteria in the gut
- By making digestion easier
- Low glycemic food
- less likely to spike your blood sugar immediately like conventional breads
- slow increase of blood sugar and insulin
- natural wild yeast
- oldest way of fermenting grains
- doesn’t use conventional yeast
- low phytic acid
- due to the fermentation process
- This makes the bread easier to digest
- whisk
- bench scraper
- pizza shovel
- pizza stone
INGREDIENTS FOR THIS SIMPLISTIC SOURDOUGH PIZZA CRUST RECIPE:
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 2 3/4 cups bread flour
- 1 cup sourdough starter
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup olive oil (+ 1-2 tablespoons to coat bowl and dough)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
HOW TO MAKE SIMPLISTIC SOURDOUGH PIZZA CRUST:
-The day before or earlier that morning
Gather all of the ingredients
Add the flours, salt, and sugar into a medium bowl and stir until combined
In a separate bowl mix together the olive oil, water, and sourdough starter.
Add the sourdough starter mixture to the dry mixture and combine with dough whisk or wooden spoon and until you can’t anymore. Use your hands to knead the dough to come all together. This should take less than 2 minutes. They dough will go from a little dry to being a little sticky. You’re done kneading when you get to this point.
Pour a little olive oil in a bowl and roll the sourdough pizza dough around until it’s coated.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or a tea towel and let it double in size on the counter for 3 to 4 hours. This time range depends on the temperature of your house. If it colder in the house, it may take longer for the pizza dough to double in a size as opposed to a warmer environment.
After this point, you can go ahead and start making your sourdough pizza
– OR –
form 2 dough balls to then place them in an airtight container and refridgerate for up to 3 days.
Because you’ll probably be making some pizza today, go ahead and preheat the oven to 450 degrees with your pizza stone inside. Flour your work surface and press the dough into a 10 to 12 inch circle with floured hands.
Transfer the pizza dough onto a pizza shovel lightly sprinkled with floured. Pile your sourdough pizza dough with sauce and goodies.
Bake the pizza for 15 to 20 minutes and enjoy!
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Yield: 2 Pizza Crust
Simplistic Sourdough Pizza Crust Recipe
This simplistic sourdough pizza crust recipe will have you making awesome homemade pizza in your own kitchen in no time! The crust is chewy, tasty, and wholesome. Now you can skip the long wait times for pizza when, you can make your own.
Prep Time3 hours 10 minutes
Cook Time15 minutes
Total Time3 hours 25 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cups bread flour
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup sourdough starter
- 1 1/4 cups water + 2 tablespoons
- 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/3 cup olive oil (+ 1-2 tablespoons to coat bowl and dough)
- 2 tablespoons sugar
Instructions
The day before or earlier that morning
- Gather all of the ingredients
- Add the flours, salt, and sugar into a medium bowl and stir until combined
- In a separate bowl mix together the olive oil, water, and sourdough starter
- Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture and stir with a dough whisk until it becomes shaggy and you can't mix it anymore. Use your hands to knead the dough together. This should take less than 2 minutes
- Put olive oil in a bowl and roll the sourdough pizza dough around until it's coated in oil.
- Cover the bowl and let it double in size for 3 to 4 hours. (You can stop right here and start making your pizzas or you can bulk ferment the pizza dough overnight.) This time range depends on the temperature of your house. If it colder in the house, it may take longer for the pizza dough to double in a size as opposed to a warmer environment.
That day or The next day
- Preheat the oven to 450 degrees with your pizza stone inside.
- Flour work surface and divide the dough in half. Form a ball then, press the dough into a 10 to 12 inch circle.
- Place the dough on a lightly floured (or sprinkle with finely ground cornmeal) pizza shovel.
- Layer your sourdough pizza crust up and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. The crust should be golden brown.
Notes
If you want to make the pizzas the next day after preparing the dough, let it bulk ferment overnight. Take it out of the fridge and let it sit for 30 minutes. Then proceed with the directions listed above.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
16Serving Size:
1 slice
Amount Per Serving:Calories: 186Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 68mgCarbohydrates: 30gFiber: 1gSugar: 2gProtein: 5g
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