Sourdough Pizza Dough
We use a pizza stone on a grill (or in a very hot oven) for delicious pizza at home.
For an easy sauce, see: Quick Pizza Sauce.
Sourdough Pizza Dough
Servings: 2 pizzas
Ingredients
Freshly fed sourdough starter
- 1 cup sourdough starter
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 1/2 cup water
Dough
- 1 1/2 cups freshly fed sourdough starter
- 1 1/2 cups white flour I use bread flour if I have it, but all purpose will do in a pinch
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 or2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
Instructions
Feed the sourdough starter.
- Feed your sourdough the first thing on the morning you want pizza. You’ll have do do it the night before for a lunchtime pizza.
- Pull out a cup or so of sourdough starter from your fridge.
- Put the sourdough starter in a large glass (or plastic) bowl.
- Add the flour and water and stir it into a smooth batter.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let it sit in a warm place for at least 4 or 5 hours (overnight if you are making a lunch pizza).
Make the dough
- Start making the dough about 4 hours before you want your pizza.
- Pull 1 1/2 cups of fed sourdough starter from the large bowl and put it in another large bowl. Put the remaining starter in a plastic container and store it in the fridge. This will be the starter for future recipes.
- Add the flour and salt to the starter and mix it with your hands until smooth. If it seems too thick, add a tablespoon or two of water. This is a judgement call – you’ll figure out what works for you based on the thickness of your starter and practice.
- Add the olive oil.
- Kneed with your hands (in the bowl) for about 10 to 15 minutes. It will start out as a sloppy, oily mess, but will become a smooth dough in a few minutes.
- Split the dough into 2 equally sized pieces.
- Put each piece into a small bowl and cover with plastic wrap.
- Let the dough rise for about 3 hours.
- Sprinkle some flour (and corn meal if you want) on your working surface and roll each piece into a circle about 12 inches in diameter.
- Let the dough sit as you heat your oven or grill
- Put your pizza stone into your oven or grill prior to heating. Heat to about 500 ºF. The hotter the better.
- When your grill or oven is ready, prepare your first pizza.
- Brush the dough with olive oil, then add the sauce, cheese, and toppings that you want.
- Use a pizza peel to transfer the pizza to the pizza stone in the hot grill or oven and cook for about 8 minutes. Time will vary depending on how hot you can get your grill and the thickness of the dough – so check occasionally.
- Use a pizza peel to take the pizza off of the stone.
- Prepare and bake the second pizza while you have a piece of the first.