Spent Grain Pizza Dough

Try this for a pizza after a brewing session. The spent grains and flavor and a little crunch to your pizza

Another good use of spent grain is in our spent grain bread recipe for a bread machine.

You can also use the spent grains from your brewing session to make spent grain dog biscuits to help make up for ignoring your dog.

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Spent Grain Pizza Dough

Prep Time4 hours hrs

Cook Time20 minutes mins

Course: Dinner, Lunch

Keyword: Bread, Spent Grain

Servings: 1 12-inch pizza

Ingredients

• ½ cup warm water around 90 ºF to 100 ºF
• 1 package active dry yeast
• 1 ½ cup bread flour
• 1½ teaspoon salt
• ¾ cup spent grain (from a homebrewing session)
• olive oil

Instructions

Prepare the dough

• Using a medium bowl, add the water and mix the yeast.
• Let the yeast and water sit for about 10 minutes. It should begin to bubble.
• Add the bread flour, spent grain and salt.
• Using your hand, mix the dough and begin to knead it in the bowl.
• Transfer the dough to a lightly floured work surface and knead for about 10 minutes.
• Wipe down a medium bowl with olive oil, place the dough into the bowl and turn it to cover it with olive oil.
  
• Cover the bowl with a towel and let it rise in a warm place for 2 or 3 hours.
  

Bake the Pizza

• If you have a pizza stone, put it in the oven.
• Preheat your oven to 500 °F.
• Punch down the dough. Let it rise for about 30 minutes.
• Remove the dough from the bowl and use your fingers to shape it into a 12-inch disk.
  
• Add sauce, cheese, and your choice of toppings.
• Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, check occasionally and adjust the time (it will vary with your oven, dough thickness, and toppings). The goal is to have a bubbly top and an evenly browned bottom.
  

Notes

The spent grain should be wet, don’t dry it.

A Note About Equipment

Super Peel

We often had problems with the transferring the pizza to the oven. Even with liberal use of corn meal on our pizza peel, it would stick. We discovered the Super Peel oven loader and love it. It works well for loading bread into a hot oven too.

We find a regular pizza peel works just fine for getting the pizza out, but the super peel has saved our bacon more than once.

Pizza Stone

We consider this a must have for pizza in a hot oven or grill. We have an old round one we use in the grill and a newer rectangular one we use for the oven. The rectangular one is useful for baking bread and rolls too.