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How to Make Sourdough Pizza Crust

March 7, 2021 by Leslie Helen 5 Comments

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In this post I share my go-to Sourdough Pizza Crust recipe and the favourite ways my family like to top it! It’s the easiest pizza dough you will ever make and the possibilities are endless.

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2 sourdough pizza crusts in cast iron pans

Sourdough Pizza Crust Ingredient List

  • Sourdough starter
  • Oil
  • Salt & Pepper to taste

That’s it – see I wasn’t lying when I said this is going to be the easiest pizza crust you’ve ever made!

Don’t worry if you don’t have a sourdough starter yet – I have a step-by-step guide on how to make one. I’ll see you back here in 7 days!

How to Start a Sourdough Starter From Scratch

Steps for Making Sourdough Pizza Crust

Tools:
  • Cast iron pizza stone or
  • Cast Iron Skillets
  • Ladle
Ingredients:
  • 1-2 tbsp Oil (either olive or avocado works well)
  • Roughly 2-3 ladle size portions of sourdough starter (fed between 4-12 hours before using)
  • Salt and pepper to taste
Steps:
  1. Place cast iron pans in oven. Preheat oven to 425°F.
  2. Once oven is preheated, remove pans from oven. Drizzle with oil (olive or avocado works well).
  3. Add 2-3 ladles of the fed sourdough starter to the hot oiled pan. The dough will start to cook immediately.
  4. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  5. Place pans with dough back in oven.
  6. Cook for 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown and doesn’t stick to pan. Remove from oven.
  7. To turn your perfect sourdough pizza crust into pizza, add your favourite toppings.
  8. Place back in oven for 10 minutes or until ingredients are heated through and cheese is melted.

Alternate Steps to Making Sourdough Pizza Crust if using Bacon as a Pizza Topping:

If you are planning to use bacon as a pizza topping – I highly recommend following these steps when making your sourdough pizza crust.

Steps:
  1. Preheat oven to 425°F.
  2. Cook 2-4 bacon slices in the same cast iron pan that you will use to cook the pizza crust.
  3. Remove bacon from pan. Set aside.
  4. Add 2-3 ladles of the fed sourdough starter to the hot pan with the bacon grease. The dough will start to cook immediately.
  5. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  6. Place pans with dough back in oven.
  7. Cook for 15 minutes or until crust is golden brown and doesn’t stick to pan. Remove from oven.
  8. To turn your perfect sourdough pizza crust into pizza, add your favourite toppings.
  9. Place back in oven for 10 minutes or until ingredients are heated through and cheese is melted.

6 Favourite Pizza Topping Combinations

I will often use whatever leftovers are in my fridge. Since introducing this recipe into our arsenal we have been able to reduce our leftover food waste – which feels good!

The possibilities are really endless, but I wanted to share with you my family’s 6 favourite ways we top our sourdough pizza crust.

#1 – Breakfast Pizza

Leftover pizza has always been a favourite to eat the next morning for breakfast, so why not make a dedicated breakfast pizza?

pizza with 2 eggs with bacon and cheese
  • Follow the Alternate Steps to making the sourdough pizza crust.
  • Top with shredded cheese, chopped bacon, chopped spring onions.
  • Crack 4 eggs over pizza. I like my eggs more well done than my husband so I break the yolk of my eggs before baking which allows the eggs to cook slightly faster than the others.
  • Carefully return to oven and cook for 12 minutes or until eggs are set to your liking.

#2 – Gourmet Meat Lovers

pizza ingredients laid out on a board
  • Use tomato paste as the base
  • Top with smoked shredded cheese, bacon, mushrooms, sliced cherry tomatoes and ground chicken
  • Finish it off with a few fresh sprigs of thyme
gourmet bbq sourdough pizza

#3 – Gourmet Smokey

  • Use Smokey BBQ sauce as the base
  • Top with smoked shredded cheese, sautéed onions, bacon, mushrooms, garlic and ground chicken
  • Finish it off with a few fresh sprigs of thyme

#4 – Hawaiian

pizza with ham and pineapple
  • Use tomato paste as the base.
  • Top with shredded cheese, cooked bacon, ham and pineapple.

#5 – Not your Typical Pepperoni Pizza

  • Use tomato paste as the base. Add dried basil and garlic.
  • Top with shredded cheese, pepperoni or salami, chopped mushrooms.
  • Top with fresh arugula

#6 – Pesto Chicken

  • Use pesto as the base.
  • Top with shredded cheese, sliced cherry tomatoes and cooked chicken.

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sourdough pizza crust
Step by step guide to making pizza using your sourdough starter.

Let us know what your favourite pizza toppings are in the comments below.

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