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Beginner Sourdough Bread Recipe
Make Perfect Sourdough Bread at home with this easy beginner-friendly recipe
Sourdough Pizza
- Prep Time: 4-6hrs for your sourdough starter to come to peak
- Fermentation: Depends, see options in the instructions
- Cook Time: 5-20 min depending on size and thichness
- Total Time: Room Temp: 8-12 hrs
- Yield: 3 Small Pizzas or 2 Med Pizza or 1.5 Large Pizzas 1x
- Category: Sourdough Pizza
- Method: Sourdough Baking
- Cuisine: Pizza Baking
Ingredients
Instructions
The sourdough bread (pizza dough is a flat bread dough) baking process can be boiled down into 7 Steps:
- FEED STARTER – 4-8hrs
- Feed your sourdough starter and use when it’s at peak
- MIXING – 5-15 min
- In a bowl, mix ingredients together thoroughly until there are no dry clumps
- FOLDING – 30 min
- After mixing, fold/knead your dough twice, 15 min apart
- PRESHAPING – 5 min
- Divide the dough into 3, shape into taut balls, place into a large food container, cover.
- PROOFING
- Option 1 – Cold Proofing Only
- After pre-shaping, put in your fridge
- Can be used anywhere between 12-36hrs
- Option 2 – Room Temp + Cold Proofing
- After pre-shaping, put leave out at room temp for 4hrs
- Then put into your fridge for max 12hrs
- Option 3 – Room Temp Proofing only
- After pre-shaping, leave out at room temp for 8-12hrs
- Then go straight to shaping
- Option 1 – Cold Proofing Only
- SHAPING – 10 min
- Pat down dough into discs and then shape into a large circle, do the best you can to be even so the pizza bakes evenly
- BAKING – 5-20 min
- Preheat your oven to 500F
- You can either assemble the pizza and bake right away, or bake the pizza dough for 5 min first and then add your sauce, cheese, toppings
- Baking times depends on how big or deep your pizza is, watch the dough carefully for desired done-ness
Beginner Sourdough Bread Schedule
Need help With the timing? I made You A Schedule That’ll Help you see the Timeline:
Friday
Preparation
9pm – Feed your sourdough starter
Saturday
1st rise – Bulk Fermentation
9am – Mix ingredients
9:15am – 1st folding session
11:15am – 2nd folding session
1:15pm – 3rd Folding session
2:15pm – Shape dough
3pm – Put dough in fridge
2nd rise – Cold Proofing
3pm – Cold proof for 24hrs
Sunday
Baking Day
2:30pm – Preheat DO in oven
3pm – Score dough
3:01pm – Bake in DO, lid on
3:20pm – Bake in DO, lid off
3:40pm – Done
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