Homemade Pizza with Sourdough Crust

Homemade Pizza with Sourdough Crust

Pizza night is usually Friday night, at my house! This sourdough pizza crust recipe is not only easy, it has some pretty nutritious ingredients. All from scratch! Over the years we have experimented with so many different brands of frozen pizzas. Thin crust, thick crust, gluten free or cauliflower crust. We have so much to choose from. The problem is, a lot of the frozen choices at the market have really bad ingredients. We can relax in knowing that this recipe checks all of the good boxes.

What I Avoid with Processed Pizzas

According to WestonPrice.org, many oils such as soybean or canola oil are not only not healthy, many studies have shown that they are actually harmful. An article called The Great Con-ola stated this, “We have had reports of allergies to canola, and internet articles describe a variety of symptoms–tremors, shaking, palsy, lack of coordination, slurred speech, memory problems, blurred vision, problems with urination, numbness and tingling in the extremities, and heart arrhythmias–that cleared up on discontinuance of canola. None of this has been reported in the medical journals, however.”

What? First of all, that’s enough information right there, to make a person want to stay away from processed pizza! Unfortunately, processed pizza tastes good. BUT, when made from scratch with better oils, we don’t have to worry about bad ingredients! We can control what we put in our pizza. With this recipe, it’s a good idea to use a good flour as well. I talk about flours in my blog post here.

 

The Sourdough Pizza Crust Process

I wish I could say I came up with this recipe all by myself. However, the idea for this process came from Farmhouse on Boone. In her blog, she made her pizzas with cast iron. Although my process is similar, I use my stoneware pizza stone from Pampered Chef.

1. This step requires sourdough starter. I prefer rye, but a wheat starter is just fine. If I plan to have pizza at 6:00 pm on Friday night,  I’ll take a half cup of sourdough starter and approximately 1 cup or a little more and mix in a glass dish at about 10:00 or earlier.

2. Allow the dough mixture to sit, covered for as long as needed to allow the grains to ferment. Sometimes I will allow 8 hours for the pizza crust and sometimes only 6. Either seem to give me the best consistency for the crust.

3. Place the stoneware pan in the oven while preheating the oven to 500 degrees. Feel free to let the pan stay in the oven for 10 minutes even after the oven reaches 500 degrees.

4. Remove stone from oven. Lightly oil the stone with olive oil or coconut oil. However, you can put on oil before you preheat, but it might smoke, depending on your oil.

5. Depending on the size of your stone, pour half or more of the sourdough/flour mixture onto the hot pan and spread in a circular motion until dough is about an inch from the edge of the pan.

6. Place pan with batter, into the 500 degree oven for 10 minutes. You may flip the crust after 7 minutes or so, if you’d like. It’s not necessary but it helped my crust to be crisper.

7. Take out pan. Leave crust on the hot pan while you place toppings on your pizza. Start with sauce, then follow up with whatever toppings you’d like! I’ll put my favorites on the recipe part of this post.

8. Place pizza with toppings back in the oven for 12-15 minutes until cheese is melted how you like.

Enjoy!

 

 

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When he has leveled the surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? Does he not plant wheat in its place, barley in its plot, and spelt in its field?

Isaiah 28:25

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Celtic Sea Salt

 

NutriMill for grinding your own flour

Sunrise flour – already milled (wheat)

Sunrise flour – white

Rye Flour

Jovial all purpose flour (eikorn)

Jovial all purpose (eikorn) smaller 

Cover for bowls for Making Sourdough

Another cover for bowls

Celtic Sea Salt

Weck Jars (for keeping sourdough)

 

Gluten-free flours for variety:

Brown rice flour

Quinoa or almond flour

 

Blood type kit

Blood type Info

 

Gardening ideas, if you grow ingredients for your pizza

Best trimming tool

Weck Jars

Excalibur. dehydrator

Garden Journal

Gardening gloves (these are awesome)

 

Try these seeds that are non-GMO, heirloom and organic!

Seed pods if you do not want to start in loose dirt

Worm Castings

Another fun garden organizational tool!

 

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