Sourdough Pizza Margherita

Name: Sourdough Pizza Margherita
Prep time: 9 h
Cook time: 4 min
Total time: 9 h 4 min
Yield: Makes 4 thin pizzas
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; a generous pinch of dried oregano; olive oil, to taste; a handful of basil leaves; 350g/12oz/2⅔ cups plain/all-purpose flour; 50g/1¾oz/¼ cup fine durum wheat semolina; 150g/5½oz/⅔ cup white sourdough starter; 250g/9oz/1 cup plus 1 tbsp water; 125g/4½ oz mozzarella; 400g/14oz/1¾ cups canned chopped tomatoes; 5g/1 tsp fine/table salt; 15g/1 tbsp olive oil

Preparation info

Makes
4
thin pizzas

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
10 hr

Appears in

Slow Dough, Real Bread

By Chris J L Young

Published 2016

About

I met Ottavia on the course at Schumacher College that first led me to the Real Bread Campaign. She says that this recipe is the result of years of attempts at making a good sourdough pizza suitable for baking in a domestic oven. She reckons that this one is the best yet.