Sourdough Pizza

Sourdough pizza is my FAVORITE dinner to make and consume!  Just like the sourdough bread, you will have to plan ahead so the dough can ferment.  The kids know it will be a pizza night when I crank up the mixer and whip up some dough as they are getting out of bed in the morning.  

Basic Dough Recipe
4 cups organic white flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup sourdough starter
1 cup warm water
2 tablespoons olive oil

I add the flour and salt together in the mixing bowl then add the sourdough starter.  I turn the mixer on, which is fitted with the dough hook, and add the water as it mixes.

After the initial mixing I kneed by hand for a minute or two then set it in a covered bowl to rise.

Ferment the dough for 12 hours or morning to evening.  Instead of forming a bread loaf simply roll out your dough and place it on your pizza pan.  I don't let my dough do a second rise at all because we like a thinner crust pizza.  The dough is super stretchy so you have to work at shaping the pizza crust the way you want. This recipe makes two medium size pizzas.

Bake your crust at 400 degrees for 15 minutes then take it out of the oven and flip it if you can, so the bottom is now the top.

Add the sauce, cheese, and toppings.  Then pop that pizza back in the oven and bake for about 25 more minutes or until the top looks done.  

PIZZA ON THE GRILL

All I can say is......this is the way to go.  We discovered pizza grilling this summer and I never want to go back to the oven in the house.  Even during a rain storm I would be tempted to run outside and bake my pizza on the grill.  The crust is SO good, So crunchy, So perfect.  I'll take you through our magical process on the grill.

Bake the crust for 10 minutes then flip the crust so the opposite side is facing down.

We are using a huge pan, it is a bit on an art to flip this big pizza dough.

Add the pizza sauce and toppings to your pizza then close the grill.

Bake in the grill with the lid down until the pizza is brown on the bottom.  Try not to open the grill too much because the heat escapes quickly. 

It only takes about 30 minutes from start to finish for this AMAZING pizza.  Bonus, you can grill sausage over the pizza if you have a second rack in your grill.  My husband loves the sausage drippings on his pizza.