Family Favourite Pizza Thin Base

Pizza dough

The absolute best part abount making pizza with Motherdough is the digestibility of the base, which probably means you can eat more pizza. Nothing wrong with that.

Thin-base Pizza Dough

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Category

Breads

Servings

4

This is a basic pizza dough to produce a fairly thin-crust pizza with not too much of a raised edge. The recipe for the pizza's from Naples with the large puffy border "il corncione" is a different one.

Ingredients

Poolish

120g Motherdough, refreshed
120g White bread flour
160g Water, filtered, room temperature

Dough

All of the poolish
40g White bread flour
380g Farina 00 or Cake flour
10g Salt
180g Water, filtered, room temperature
10g Bread malt or 1 tsp honey
22g Extra virgin olive oil

Directions

The night before, blitz all the poolish ingredients together until smooth and leave to rest covered with cling wrap at room temperature for 10-12 hours.
The next morning add the flours, water, malt, salt and olive oil and bring together.
Knead energetically on the counter, or in a mixer with the dough hook on a medium-high speed for 10-15 minutes to achieve a smooth elastic dough that passes the knead poke test. Form a ball and place in a container brushed with oil and cover with cling film.
Prove in a warm place, or switched off oven with only the light on, for 90 minutes.
Knock down and perform at least 3 sets of stretch & folds at 15 minutes intervals until you notice good strength in the dough.
Divide into 4 equal pieces and form balls. Place in a tray and cover with cling film. Leave to rest in the fridge and continue slow fermentation, until required for use.
Take out the fridge 30-60 minutes before use and proceed as you normally would to make your pizza.
For best results cook your pizza on a baking stone that has been preheated at the oven's maximum temperature for 45 minutes.

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