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Sourdough Pizza Crust

No need to wait overnight for this thick crust sourdough pizza crust in a cast iron skillet. Use active or discard starter and have delicious homemade pizza ready tonight!
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Prep Time 3 hours
Cook Time 25 minutes
Servings: 8 slices
Course: dinner
Cuisine: Italian, Mediterranean
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 skillet

Equipment

  • 1 cast iron skillet

Method
 

  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. Use your hands to continue combining all the ingredients together into one large dough ball. The dough should be shaggy when it is ready.
  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 get a cast iron skillet and grease it with bacon grease or oil.
  5. Unwrap the mixing bowl and using your hands, stretch the dough into a large circle like a pizza crust, trying to get the dough the same measure of thickness all the way around.
  6. Gently place the dough in the skillet while allowing the dough to rest on the edge of the skillet or slightly over it. The edges may appear much thicker than the rest of the dough and that is okay.
  7. Now use your fingers to press the dough onto the edge of the cast iron skillet. Again, it is okay if some dough hangs over the skillet's edge. This will make your thick crust. Try not to leave air bubbles in the bottom of the dough. Lift the edge and lightly press the air bubble to release the air but not tear the dough.
  8. Insert skillet into the oven and allow the crust to bake for 15 minutes or until lightly brown.
  9. When the time is up, remove the skillet from the oven and allow it to cool for about 10 minutes.
  10. At this point, you can dress your pizza however you choose with marinara or pizza sauce, cheeses, and toppings. Then you will place the skillet back into the oven and bake for anywhere between 5 and 10 minutes or until cheese is melted like you prefer.

Notes

NOTE: If you have fresh toppings like peppers, onions, and mushrooms you'd like cooked more, then during the baking of the crust, reduce time to 10 minutes. Then up the time for baking with toppings on to a full 10 minutes. This will help your crust not get too dark. Keep an eye on the baking process so you don't burn the crust! Additionally, you can reduce the heat for the toppings baking to 375 degrees for 10 minutes or longer to thoroughly cook the fresh toppings.
 
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