Pizza night just leveled up! This easy smoked sourdough pizza on the wood pellet smoker is *chef’s kiss*. The light smoke flavor paired with robust tomato sauce and savory cheese is dang near perfection. This recipe is easy to tailor to your family’s taste buds with different toppings. Enjoy this new spin on a family favorite!
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Is smoked sourdough pizza any good?
Oh my gosh, yes!
The smokey flavor is light but noticeable. It’s giving… brick oven pizza without the brick oven!
Change up the smoke flavor by changing your wood pellets:
–hickory
–apple
–cherry
–mesquite
–pecan
–and more
These wood pellets are our favorite and we use them when smoking beef, pork, chicken, and even Mac and cheese. An all-around good wood pellet choice for smoking any foods.
How long does it take to smoke a pizza?
Depending on your level of “done”, smoking a pizza can take 20-25 minutes at around 425 degrees.
The thinner the crust, the sooner it will be done. With thin crust pizza, give it a check around 15 minutes. Use a spatula to lift the pizza from the pan to check for doneness on the crust’s bottom.
This recipe includes one fairly thick crust smoked sourdough pizza dough so around 25 minutes is perfect.
Which wood pellet smoker is best?
Hard to say as we’ve only ever used one: Pit Boss.
There’s also the Traeger which I hear is great and those neat green egg shaped smokers too.
Additionally, there is the Royal Gourmet smoker.
You make the call on which smoker grill you want to use then get creative with what dishes you want to smoke. The possibilities are endless!
Ingredients
1/2 cup sourdough starter (active or discard matters not)
1 cup water
1 tsp salt (Redmond’s is my favorite)
2 tsp avocado or olive oil
3 1/4 cup all-purpose flour (I’ll have to experiment with freshly milled and report back later!)
1 tbsp bacon grease or avocado/oil olive (for greasing cookie sheet)
Pizza or marinara sauce with a 4oz can of tomato paste added in for thickness
8 oz mozzarella cheese (or any cheeses)
Toppings such as pepperoni, bacon crumbles, sausage, tomato slices, fresh basil, mushrooms, onions, etc
How to make smoked sourdough pizza dough
Prepare dough:
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together starter, water, oil, and salt. Combine ingredients well. Then add in flour 1/2 cup at a time. Whisk as best you can until the dough becomes too thick. Then use your hands to continue combining all the ingredients together into one large dough ball. The dough should be shaggy when it is ready for a short rest.
Now leave the dough in the large mixing bowl and cover with plastic wrap or a silicone cover and allow the dough to sit at room temperature for at least 2 hours. Anything up to 8 hours is fine too.
To prepare your dough for crust, preheat oven to 450 degrees and grease a cookie sheet with bacon grease or oil of choice.
Get dough ready to smoke:
After at least 2 hours of rest for the pizza dough, preheat the smoker to 425 degrees.
Next, unwrap the mixing bowl and using your hands, stretch the dough into a rectangle shape the size of your cookie sheet as best you can. Lay the dough on the sheet and gently stretch the dough to fill in the entire cookie sheet.
Use a spoon or spatula to spread pizza sauce all over the dough. Spread all the way to the cookie sheets edges.
Now dress your sourdough pizza dough with whatever toppings you’d like to use plus the cheese to hold the toppings on. We like lots of cheese on our pizza so I will sprinkle cheese onto the pizza sauce then add toppings and then add more cheese on top. You do you! Get creative and let the kids help.
Smoked sourdough pizza:
It’s smoking time! Insert the cookie sheet into your smoker and allow it to smoke/cook for 20-25 minutes at 425 degrees.
If the crust is thinner, check the pizza crust at 15 minutes for your preference of doneness.
Carefully remove cookie sheet containing your easy smoked sourdough pizza, slice, allow a few minutes of cooling, then enjoy!
Serving Size
This thick crust smoked sourdough pizza makes one rectangle shaped pizza using the cookie sheet linked in the “SHOP THIS POST” section below.
- 12 pizza squares can be cut from this pizza recipe.
What time should I prepare dough for lunch?
Smoked sourdough pizza is a fantastic choice for feeding your children on the weekends or if you’re a homeschool family.
Prepare your dough and all it to rest right after breakfast. By 11:00am, dough will be ready for the cookie sheet and toppings. You can have pizza ready for lunch by 12:00pm if not sooner!
What time should I prepare dough for dinner time?
Alternatively, if you want smoked sourdough pizza for dinner, start the dough after lunch.
This dough preparation isn’t so difficult that it couldn’t be done right before leaving for work if you work outside of the home.
Allow the dough to rest covered with plastic wrap or a silicone cover in the refrigerator until you arrive home. Remove the dough from fridge upon arrival back home and let it sit until you are ready to spread the dough on the cookie sheet for smoking.
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Smoked Sourdough Pizza
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together starter, water, oil, and salt. Combine ingredients well.
- Then add in flour 1/2 cup at a time. Whisk as best you can until the dough becomes too thick. Then use your hands to continue combining all the ingredients together into one large dough ball. The dough should be shaggy when it is ready for a short rest.
- Now leave the dough in the large mixing bowl and cover with plastic wrap or a silicone cover and allow the dough to sit at room temperature for at least 2 hours. Anything up to 8 hours is fine too.
- To prepare your dough for crust, preheat oven to 450 degrees and grease a cookie sheet with bacon grease or oil of choice.
- After at least 2 hours of rest for the pizza dough, preheat the smoker to 425 degrees.
- Next, unwrap the mixing bowl and using your hands, stretch the dough into a rectangle shape the size of your cookie sheet as best you can. Lay the dough on the sheet and gently stretch the dough to fill in the entire cookie sheet.
- Use a spoon or spatula to spread pizza sauce all over the dough. Spread all the way to the cookie sheets edges.
- Now dress your sourdough pizza dough with whatever toppings you'd like to use plus the cheese to hold the toppings on.
- Insert the cookie sheet into your smoker and allow it to smoke/cook for 20-25 minutes at 425 degrees.
- If the crust is thinner, check the pizza crust at 15 minutes for your preference of doneness.
- Carefully remove cookie sheet containing your easy smoked sourdough pizza, slice, allow a few minutes of cooling, then enjoy!
