Greek Yogurt Pizza Dough Recipe (Optionally With Sourdough Discard)

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Greek Yogurt Pizza Dough Recipe (Optionally With Sourdough Discard)

This Greek yogurt pizza dough recipe is quick and easy to make in about 30 minutes, uses just a handful of ingredients, and yields deliciously crispy, chewy crust!

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Keyword Greek Yogurt Pizza Dough, Greek Yogurt Pizza Dough Recipe

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 20

Servings servings

Calories 469.7kcal

Author Faith Gorsky

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
3 teaspoons baking powder (make sure yours is double-acting, which most commercially available baking powders are)
1 1/8 teaspoons salt
300 grams plain nonfat Greek yogurt (about 1 1/4 cups + 1 tablespoon)
6 tablespoons sourdough discard
1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil (for your hands and the baking tray)

Cheese Pizza Toppings:

1/2 cup pizza sauce
12 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Prep. Preheat the oven to 375F. Line a large baking tray with a piece of parchment paper and brush it with olive oil (this will help you spread out the dough).
Make the dough. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt to a large bowl, and whisk to combine. Add the yogurt and sourdough to the bowl, and stir until it forms a shaggy dough. At that point, use your hands to knead a few times until it forms a smooth dough. (TIP: At first it’ll look like the dough is too dry; it’s not, keep kneading! Then when it forms a ball, the dough will be a bit sticky and spongy, which is normal.)
Shape. Divide the dough into 5 equal portions. Oil your hands and roll each portion of dough into a ball. Working with one ball at a time, place it on the oiled baking tray (TIP: make sure you put the dough ball where you want it because once the dough is pressed out you can’t move it). Use your fingers to press out the dough to a circle about 6 inches in diameter, leaving it a little thicker along the outside to form the crust (TIP: don't press the dough too much or you'll deflate all dough's puffiness/sponginess and your crust will be dense). Use a fork to poke several holes in the dough (i.e., dock the dough).
Bake the dough. Par-bake until the pizza crust is puffed and doesn’t look wet or doughy, but is just ever-so-slightly golden and isn’t yet starting to brown, about 10 to 15 minutes in a 375F oven.
If you want to eat the pizzas now, spread about 1 1/2 tablespoons of pizza sauce on each (leaving a border for the crust), and sprinkle about 2/3 cup of cheese evenly on each. (TIP: You can skip the pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese and use any pizza toppings you like.) Bake in a preheated 375F oven until the crust is golden and the cheese is melted, about 10 minutes.
If you want to freeze the pizzas for meal prep, let the pre-baked crust cool completely before adding the toppings. After adding the toppings, arrange the pizzas in a single layer on a parchment-lined tray (you can add another piece of parchment paper on top and double stack them) and freeze until solid, about 8 hours. Once frozen, wrap each pizza individually, and then pop them into a freezer-safe zip-top bag for up to 3 months. When you want to eat it, there’s no need to thaw it first. To finish cooking the pizzas from frozen, preheat the oven to 375F and put a baking tray in the oven to preheat. Once the oven is at temperature, carefully put the frozen pizzas on the preheated tray and bake until the crust is golden and the cheese is melted, about 15 to 20 minutes.

Notes

Storage: Let fully cooked pizzas cool to room temperature, and then store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. If you froze the partially pre-cooked pizzas, after flash freezing you can store them in the freezer for up to 3 months.
Reheating: To reheat fully cooked pizzas and keep the crust crisp, pop them in a 350F oven for 5 to 6 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and they’re warm throughout.
Nutrition Information: This recipe makes 5 individual pizzas. The nutritional information estimate given for this recipe includes the pizza sauce and mozzarella cheese toppings. The nutritional information estimate for 1 serving of the crust only is as follows: 233.7kcal, 11.7 grams protein, 36.7 grams total carbs, 0.9 grams fiber, and 4.9 grams total fat.

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