72 Hour SourDough Pizza Dough Recipe

This is a bit of a long one - but many people find the process of making pizza dough at home to be daunting, and it doesn’t need to be. Homemade pizza dough is easy, and tastes great… you just need a little bit of patience. The biggest struggle of how to make pizza dough at home for most people is waiting for the dough to ferment, but this long slow ferment is what gives the best Pizza doughs their characteristic flavour, colour, and crunch. You can shorten the process to a few hours, but the dough won’t be as good.

Just give in and make this pizza dough on Wednesday before bedtime; stick in the fridge for a few days and then have the best pizza you’ve ever made on Friday or Saturday night.

Ingredients:

500g (100%) high protein flour (’00’ Pizza Flour, Bread Flour, Strong Flour)
15g (3%) course salt (sea salt, etc)
300g / 300 mL (60%) water at room temp
150g sourdough starter

How to make a sourdough starter: https://youtu.be/G2vtMjfVK34

Method:
Combine flour, salt, water, and sourdough starter in the bowl of a stand mixer (or regular mixing bowl).
Mix on low until a rough dough ball forms.
Stop mixing and let stand for 15-30 minutes.
Knead for 7-10 minutes on medium speed, or until dough is smooth and elastic.
Remove dough from mixing bowl, and form into a tight ball on your countertop.
Don’t use any flour during this step.
Place dough ball in a container with a tight fitting lid, large enough to allow the dough to double in size.
Place container in fridge for 18 hours - to - 4 days to ferment.
Between an hour to an hour and a half before you want to bake the pizzas, remove dough from fridge and form into 3 equal balls.
Cover loosely on the countertop and allow to rise and warm before shaping.

**Tips:
- You don’t need oil or sugar in this type of pizza dough.
- Sugar will artificially speed up the dough rise, but will deter yeast growth long term.
- If your yeast is fresh there is no need to bloom or proof it before mixing.
- This dough is Ok after 4 or 5 hours, better after 24, great at 48, and incredible at 72 hours of cold slow fermentation.
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