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Smoked Sourdough Pizza

it's giving brick oven pizza without all the brick oven! Robust tomato sauce, savory cheese, and a light smokey flavor make this pizza one of the best you'll taste!
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Prep Time 2 hours
Cook Time 25 minutes
Servings: 1 thick crust pizza
Course: dinner
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup sourdough starter active or discard
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp avocado or olive oil
  • 3 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp bacon grease or avocado/oil olive for greasing cookie sheet
  • 1 cup Pizza or marinara sauce with a 4oz can of tomato paste added in for thickness more if making 2 pizzas
  • 8 oz mozzarella cheese or any cheeses
  • Toppings your choice!

Equipment

  • 1 cookie sheet 2 if you want crust thinner
  • 1 wood pellet smoker grill

Method
 

Prepare Dough:
  1. In a large mixing bowl, whisk together starter, water, oil, and salt. Combine ingredients well.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 be smoked:
  1. After at least 2 hours of rest for the pizza dough, preheat the smoker to 425 degrees.
  2. 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.
  3. Use a spoon or spatula to spread pizza sauce all over the dough. Spread all the way to the cookie sheets edges.
  4. Now dress your sourdough pizza dough with whatever toppings you'd like to use plus the cheese to hold the toppings on.
Smoked Sourdough Pizza:
  1. Insert the cookie sheet into your smoker and allow it to smoke/cook for 20-25 minutes at 425 degrees.
  2. If the crust is thinner, check the pizza crust at 15 minutes for your preference of doneness.
  3. Carefully remove cookie sheet containing your easy smoked sourdough pizza, slice, allow a few minutes of cooling, then enjoy!

Notes

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