Homemade Sourdough Pizza Crust

Homemade sourdough pizza crust is the best tasting homemade pizza crust you will ever eat.  It contains only six ingredients.  It’s full of  flavor and it’s crispy.

Just about everyone loves pizza, and making it at home is much easier and tastes better than you might think.  It does take some time to make, but it’s well worth it.  When you make pizza at home you can get creative with your toppings or not.  Sometimes a plain old pizza will do and other times I will pile on the veggies like this pizza with shaved brussels sprouts and bacon.

Here is what you will need to make sourdough pizza crust: Sourdough starter, whole wheat flour, organic white flour, yeast, salt, honey, and olive oil.

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What Is Sourdough?

I started making this crust last year when I picked up a starter kit to make sourdough bread and it’s been my go to pizza dough ever since.  If you aren’t familiar with sourdough, it’s fermented dough that adds a sour taste to bread.  Sourdough also aides in the process of rising the dough and it makes a super flavorful pizza crust.

Once you get your sourdough starter going, it needs to be fed every day or less often if you store it in the fridge. Before the dough is fed, a portion of the starter is taken away (discard) which is what I usually use when I make my sourdough pizza crust.

Some sourdough recipes don’t use yeast and rely on the sourdough starter for the dough to rise,  but it’s a very slow process.  Even though it’s worth the wait, I added some yeast to the recipe to speed up the process.  If you have the time, you can leave the yeast out of this recipe and let your dough rise overnight.

This pizza dough is soft on the inside and crispy on the outside, and it makes enough dough for two large pizzas.  If you don’t need to make two pizzas you can easily freeze the  leftover crust.

Here is How to Make Sourdough Pizza Crust

1. Dissolve the yeast, salt and honey in warm water
2. Pour the sourdough mixture into a bowl
3. Stir in the yeast mixture
4. Gradually add flour
5. Knead the dough
6. Place dough in a warm place to rise
7. Punch dough down
8. Allow to rise once more
9. Make your pizza

Tips for Making Sourdough Pizza Crust

Use Filtered or Bottled Water when Making Sourdough Pizza Crust 

• Sometimes tap water contains chlorine which can interfere with the rising process, especially with fermented dough. Chlorine can be present in bottled water but is’t not as common in bottled water.

Freeze Sourdough Pizza Crust 

• After the first rise of the pizza dough, punch it down and rub olive oil onto the  dough and wrap it in parchment, then plastic or a re-usable silicon bag and freeze for up to three months.  Thaw in the fridge overnight. Bring to room temperature before stretching out the dough.

Accelerate the Rising Time for Sourdough Pizza Crust

• Sourdough pizza crust takes a bit longer to rise, placing it in a warm oven will speed the process.  Heat your oven to the about 175. Cover the dough and place it in the oven and turn the oven off.

Other Uses for sourdough pizza crust

• This pizza dough  also works well for calzones, stromboli, bread sticks  or a flatbread like this buffalo chicken flatbread recipe.

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