Matt Frampton’s Pizza Dough Instructions:
I use a sourdough in mine as well, but that’s a topic for another day. (UPDATE: See alternate ingredients at the bottom of this post for measurements when using a sourdough starter) This recipe is the same, with a little extra yeast to make up for the lost sourdough. Also, I use a 00 flour, but the King Arthur Blue is much easier to find and a good substitute. Use KA Bread or a good Caputo 00.
You need a food scale, it’s the only way I measure. This makes a 350g pie, so just multiply it for as many as you want….
212g King Arthur Bread Flour (the blue)
128g of filtered or bottled water
3.5 g of Instant or Active Dry Yeast (the Red Star Platinum stuff works well if you can find it)
6.5g of Kosher Salt
If you have a stand mixer:
Using a dough hook, take about half the flour, all the water and the yeast (including sourdough starter if using) and mix it well, for about 5 min on slow. Cover and let it stand for 20 minutes. This part is important, it gives the dough a chance to get fermentation started. It is also important not to add salt here. Salt can hold back the production, or even kill yeast if it hasn’t had a chance to wake up.
Then, add the salt and turn the mixer back on slow. Slowly add the rest of the flour back in and let it mix with the dough hook for about 15 minutes.
If you don’t have a stand mixer, just mix all the ingredients together well in a bowl, then knead the dough for a good solid 20 min by hand on a floured surface.
Split up the dough into the quantity you made (you can eye ball or use a scale). Now ball up each dough and coat well with olive oil.
Put dough in container and stick it in the fridge immediately. It should be in the fridge at least overnight and no longer than 5 days. This timing is important, the dough is fermenting. 24 hours = good. 48 = real good. 72+ hours = best. I’ve recently become a massive fan of how this dough tastes after a 5 day cold ferment. Try it!
When you are ready to cook, take the dough out of the fridge and set it on the counter at room temp for 1-2hrs before cooking. Much longer than this and it will over rise. Less than an hour, it’s just tough to stretch. This timing is important, just like the fridge.
A couple notes:
– I put the dough in 48oz Round Glad containers with a very small pin hole in the lid for gas to escape. They are on Amazon in 3 packs and cheap. They are ideal size for when it’s going to rise.
– You can make extra and freeze the dough balls for a very long time! Just put them in individual ziplock freezer bags instead. When you are ready to use them, take the dough out of the freezer bag while frozen and stick it in the Glad container and in the fridge for 3-4 days, then they are ready.
If you decide to use a sourdough starter, here are my measurements:
195g King Arthur Bread Flour (the blue) – OR – Caputo 00 Pizza Flour (preferred)
110g of filtered or bottled water
35g of Sourdough Starter (the starter should be 50% flour and 50% water, by weight)
3 g of Instant or Active Dry Yeast (the Red Star Platinum stuff works well if you can find it)
7 g of Kosher Salt
Good luck!!!
Here is a video showing how I separate and finish the preparation of the dough for the containers:
This is a huge batch so I couldn’t use my mixer, but you can see some of the things I do here…..
Huge batch of pizza dough without a mixer!
Matt Frampton
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