Today we’re sharing a recipe for Sourdough Pizza Dough. This pizza dough makes the best homemade pizza with the most amazing flavor and without the long waiting time.
All about Sourdough Pizza Dough
This is the ultimate pizza dough! You can make it in your stand mixer, in your bread machine on the dough setting or by hand. Any way you choose, it turns out incredible and make the best homemade pizza.
Like many on a Sourdough journey, you envision loaves upon loaves of delicious sourdough bread. But it turns out those sourdough loaves take a lot of time and practice to make. In order to keep your sourdough starter alive, you continually feed it and must find ways to use the starter or dump it. In the spirit of not wasting food, even sourdough discard isn’t something that we can afford to waste.
While our sourdough starter has made quite a few loaves of bread, tortillas, bagels, pancakes, waffles, brownies, cookies and even muffins. We are still looking for ways to use up sourdough starter and found that pizza dough is another delicious option. We regularly make homemade pizza so this pizza dough has become another staple in our weekly meal prep routine.
You don’t need very many ingredients to make this pizza dough. Like most pizza dough made from scratch, it’s a simple and easy recipe. One thing we feel makes the best pizza is to have a pizza stone or even large enough cast iron pans. You can of course just use your usual pizza pan or cookie sheet but these stones and cast-iron pans get even hotter for optimal pizza making.
Sourdough Pizza Dough
This is the ultimate pizza dough with the most amazing flavor and without the long waiting time.
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup warm water (115 degrees F) 172 grams
- 2 1/4 tsp instant yeast (1 package)
- 1 cup sourdough discard 240 grams
- 2 tsp sugar 12 grams
- 1 tsp salt 6 grams
- 2 tbsp oil 30 grams
- 2 tbsp cornmeal 24 grams
- 2 3/4 cups bread flour 358 grams
Instructions
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Put warm water in the bowl of a stand mixer. Sprinkle the yeast over the top.
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Add in the sourdough discard, sugar, salt, oil, cornmeal and flour.
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In your stand mixer, mix them with the paddle attachment just until combined. Then put on the dough hook and knead for 7 minutes.
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Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place for 30 minutes or until almost doubled.
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Preheat the oven to 450 degree F.
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Prepare your pizza stone or pan by lightly sprinkling with cornmeal. Place your pizza dough on the pan and press it out lightly with your fingertips until it is the size and thickness you prefer.
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Top with desired pizza toppings. Place in preheated oven and bake for 16 minutes, turning halfway through.
Recipe Notes
This recipe makes one large pizza or two medium sized pizzas.
If you’re looking for other sourdough recipes, we have several here on the blog. There are more sourdough and sourdough discard recipes to come. We also have a post of how to start your own Sourdough starter if you need help with that.
How long will this pizza dough keep?
You can make this pizza dough ahead of time and store it in the refrigerator for a couple of days until you’re ready to make pizza. You can even transfer it to the freezer if you’d like to save it for longer term storage. Otherwise, leftover pizza will be stored just like any pizza wrapped in foil or stored in a container in the refrigerator.
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