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Same-Day Sourdough Pizza Crust

Marlene Lacey

Same-day, starter-discard, pizza dough makes two, medium-sized pizza crusts. 

Pizza Dough Ingredients 

  • 1½ c sourdough starter discard, unfed
  • 1½ c all-purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 tsp salt

Pizza Dough Directions

  1. Mix starter, flour, olive oil, and salt together in a bowl until mixture forms a ball. Let dough rest and bloom for 30–45 minutes.
Sourdough Pizza Dough
Same day, sourdough pizza dough from unfed starter (Charlie) discard, all-purpose flour, olive oil, and salt mixed together and left to bloom for 30–45 minutes.

Equipment for Baking Pizza Crust

  • small jar of flour for lightly flouring surfaces
  • pizza pan or baking sheet
  • two, approx. 15-inch square pieces of parchment paper, lightly floured. Use for easy transfer of the pizza dough/crust/pizza to and from a hot oven. and easy clean-up.
  • rolling pin, lightly floured
  • small bowl of olive oil and silicon brush for brushing the top of baked pizza crusts
  • good oven mitts
  • dough scraper
  • lifter or large silicone spatula to flatten ballooning pizza crust to create a more level crust surface for toppings

Baking Directions

  1. Prepare and organize pizza toppings while the dough rests.  
  2. Prepare oven: position two oven racks allowing for height expansion; preheat oven to 500 degrees F. 
  3. Place the rested dough onto lightly floured parchment paper. Use the standard pull-and-fold “knead” process for sour dough. Turn the board and repeat 2–3 times. 
  4. Use the dough scraper to cut the dough in half, to make two crusts.
  5. Use the scraper to help move and place one dough portion onto second lightly floured parchment paper.
  6. Shape each dough portion delicately using the lightly floured rolling pin to gently press the dough into shape rather than rolling the dough. 
  7. Rotating the paper, continue to press the dough gently into an approximate 13-inch round shape.
  8. Lift and transfer the parchment papers with the shaped doughs to the pizza pans and place on prepared oven racks. 
  9. Bake 5 min., then turn oven down to 450 degrees and continue baking until pale golden, another 5 min.
  10. Remove from oven. Lower oven to 400 degrees. 
  11. Brush crusts with extra virgin olive oil.
  12. Add pizza sauce, toppings, and cheese/s; return to oven to cook an additional 10 min.
Sourdough Pizza
Sourdough pizza pre-baked crust with sauce, toppings, seasonings, and cheese. Our dried garden herbs provide the ingredients for a wonderful Italian spice seasoning combination, simmered in and sprinkled on, the homemade pizza sauce. Our summer savory was especially noteworthy, as was scissor-snipped, just-picked Thai basil from our AeroGarden. Toppings included finely sliced leeks, snipped green onion, salami slices, diced green pepper, tomatoes, and mushrooms. finalized with the pizza standard Mozzarella cheese. Twists of freshly ground Tellicherry peppercorns are always my standard final touch. 

Cut and serve. I recommend a side dipping sauce to dip crust edges, such as hummus or creamy avocado dip.  

Sourdough Pizza
Perfectly plated pizza pleased palettes.

 

 

 

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One thought on “Same-Day Sourdough Pizza Crust”

  1. Thank you for sharing your pizza recipe. It is a pleasure to make and even better to eat.
    During the preparation for the oven I found the use of the parchment paper simplified the task. The dough was so easy to move from the paper to the pan in the oven without the dough sticking. Also the pizza was easy to serve because it hadn’t stuck to the pizza pan. Precooking the dough worked extremely well.
    The crust was perfectly crunchy. Used my homemade sauce and did not overload the pizza with toppings
    I have never made nor bought a pizza I enjoyed more. They just don’t get any better.

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