Friday, May 21, 2021

Make in the Morning Pizza Dough (My Favorite Same Day Recipe Yet!)

 


The best pizza I've made so far in my home kitchen! Slightly adapted from Ken Forkish's Book - The Elements of Pizza. You start the dough first thing in the morning and it's ready by dinner time! Definitely need a pizza steel for the best outcome as it will mimic the high heat of a commercial pizza oven so your pizza cooks quickly with the beautiful crusty bubbles :)


In the morning when you get up:

Heat 2 cups of water in a large measuring glass in the microwave for 30-45 seconds until it reaches 90-95 degrees fahrenheit. 

Put medium/large bowl on food scale and tare and add the following (zero the scale after each addition)

1/8 teaspoon dry active yeast 

15 grams salt

1 tablespoon olive oil + the warmed water up to 350 grams total liquid

Stir until yeast and salt are dissolved. Tare the scale.


Add 500 grams all-purpose flour and mix with a danish whisk or your hands just until it forms a shaggy dough. Cover and let rest for 20 minutes. Knead on floured counter for 30 seconds to 1 minute until it comes together and is smooth. Let rest, covered, for 1.5-2 hours at room temp (72-80 degrees). 

My Video Tutorials for Shaping and Transferring the Pizza Dough Here!

Divide the dough into 3-4 parts and shape them by  tugging and pulling out a piece of the ball and folding it toward the center, repeat 5-10 times (turning each time until you start to feel resistance. Slide ball on an unfloured section of counter in cupped hands towards you 4-5 times to make it even more taught on the surface.  Let the dough balls sit covered on a floured surface for approximately 6-8 hours (at 72-80 degrees room temp). 

Heat your pizza baking steel at 500-550 degrees (the highest your oven will go) in the middle of your oven for at least 45 minutes. 

Form pizzas on a floured wooden peel and transfer to the steel by carefully shaking/sliding it off. Pizzas should cook in 5-6 minutes. Remove pizza with a metal peel. Brush crust with melted butter and serve immediately.


Link to my pizza making tools:

Wooden Pizza Peel (for building pizza and transferring to steel in oven)

Metal Aluminum Pizza Peel (for removing pizza from oven on baking steel)

Nerd Chef Baking Steel