Here’s how to use to Freshly Milled Flour to Make a Sourdough Pizza Dough

If you’re just venturing into the freshly milled grains world, may I suggest a super simple yet delicious and nutritious recipe that uses up excess sourdough discard in the process? Freshly milled sourdough pizza dough! So good, your family will request it weekly. Read on for this easy to make pizza dough using freshly milled flour and sourdough discard.

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Real quick…

A quick intro: I’m newER to the freshly milled grains world too.

Currently I use soft white wheat berries in a LOT of my recipes. They are so easy to work with and produce a delicious and soft crumb baked good from pancakes to cookies to bread!

If you are looking to branch in to hard wheat berries, spelt, einkorn, kamut, and more, my suggestion is to play around with recipes! Research and try someone else’s recipe and then tweak it to your liking.

You’ll make good bread and some breads will go to the chickens or the dog. It’s par for the course and means you’re on a mission. KEEP AT IT.

Freshly Milled Sourdough Pizza Dough

Originally, I started making homemade pizza with a sourdough pizza crust using all purpose flour and sourdough discard. It’s amazing and we eat homemade smoked pizza probably 3-4 times a month!

Here is that recipe using solely all-purpose flour smoked on a wood pellet smoker grill.

Ingredients

1/2 cup sourdough starter (active or discard matters not)

1 1/4 cup water

1 tsp salt (Redmond’s is my favorite)

2 tsp avocado or olive oil

3 1/4 cup freshly milled flour (about 2 cups and 3 tablespoons of berries- soft or hard white berries work as well)

1 tbsp bacon grease or avocado/oil olive (for greasing baking sheet)

Important notes about wheat berries

• the texture will be different in your final baked product than with all purpose white flour
• if using soft wheat berries, use 2/3 cup of wheat berries to make 1 cup of all-purpose flour
• 1 oz wheat berries = 1 oz flour

Instructions

To make this freshly milled sourdough pizza dough, whisk together sourdough starter, water, oil, and salt in a large mixing bowl with a dough whisk or standing mixer with a dough hook attachment. Combine ingredients well.

Next, add in flour 1/2 cup at a time. Mix 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 damp tea towel and allow the dough to sit at room temperature for at least 2 hours. Anything up to 8 hours is fine too (more fermentation time for the sourdough = an even more nutritious pizza dinner!)

When you are ready to use the dough for homemade pizza night, use bacon grease or avocado or olive oil to grease the baking sheet. For this recipe, we like to use this pan as it makes the crust not too thick, not too thin (pan is 15.8 x 12 x 1 inch).

Using your hands, gently stretch the dough ball out into a rectangle shape without tearing the dough. This can be done in the air with both clean hands as not to dirty a counter top or have to clean it first.

Place the rectangle pizza dough on the greased baking sheet and gently manipulate the dough to the edges and corners of the baking sheet.

If you’re ready to bake the dough into a pizza crust,

Now you’re ready to create a homemade pizza to your liking. If using pre-cooked ingredients or toppings, then once the pizza is topped with sauce, meats, vegetables, and cheese, bake the pizza.

Bake in a preheated over at 425 degrees Farenheit for 25 minutes.

Our favorite cook method is to smoke the pizza on a wood pellet smoker grill like a Pit Boss. Same temperature and cook time. Check on the pizza around the 20 minute mark to see if the edges of the crust are golden brown to your liking.

Rectangle pizzas slice better if slid onto a similar sized cutting board first, then sliced with a pizza cutter.

A completely from scratch pizza

Now that you have your freshly milled sourdough pizza dough made from scratch, try these other ingredients from scratch too:

• pizza sauce
• pepperoni

Unless you have a milk cow and can do the most, homemade mozzarella cheese or paneer is taking your from scratch pizza to the next level! I’ve done it and it’s amazing. So satisfying to know YOU DID THAT completely from scratch and can trust every single ingredient.

In the event you don’t want to make your on mozzarella for your pizza, the mozzarella pearls or slices from the deli section of the grocery store work really well.

Imagine this freshly milled sourdough pizza dough topped with fresh tomatoes and basil from your summer garden perhaps even drizzled with a balsamic glaze. A wonderfully refreshing, light summer dinner al fresco, honestly.

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Dough Whisk

Baking Pan set (my favorite to gift newly weds and graduates)

Pit Boss wood pellet smoker grill

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