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Lievito Madre pizza – with sourdough
Pizza dough is crispy, aromatic and wonderfully Italian when made with Lievito Madre. Lievito Madre is a wheat sourdough that contains lots of yeast and gives the pizza dough a powerful growth boost.
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Pizza dough is crispy, aromatic and wonderfully Italian when made with Lievito Madre. Lievito Madre is a wheat sourdough that contains lots of yeast and gives the pizza dough a powerful growth boost.
Ingredients
- 10 g Lievito Madre
- 30 g Salt
- 600 ml Cold water
- 50 ml Olive oil
- 1 EL Sugar
- 1 kg Flour, , Tipo 00
Equipment
- Pizza stone
Schritt für Schritt durch´s Rezept
- Step 1Mix 10 g Lievito Madre with 100 g flour, the sugar and approx. 50 ml water. Leave to ferment for 2 hours.
- Step 2Dissolve the salt in 550 ml cold water.
- Step 3Place 900 g flour in a large bowl. Work the Lievito Madre mixture into the flour. Then gradually add the salt water to the flour and knead well.
- Step 4When everything is well kneaded, work in the olive oil.
- Step 5As soon as the dough is elastic and no longer sticky (after approx. 10 minutes of kneading), cover and leave to stand at room temperature for 3 hours.
- Step 6Then shape the dough into 8 equal-sized balls, cover and leave to rise in the fridge for 21 hours. Then leave for another 3 hours at room temperature.
- Step 7Now shape each ball – either with your hands or a rolling pin – into an evenly round pizza.
- Step 8Top as desired and bake in a preheated oven at the highest temperature – ideally on a pizza stone.
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