Simplistic Sourdough Pizza Crust Recipe (2024)

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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