Easy Overnight Sourdough Pizza Dough (Beginner Friendly)

Sourdough pizza dough is one of my many sourdough staples. It’s easy, always tastes delicious and makes homemade pizza taste that much better!

I have also found that using sourdough has been a wonderful way of filling my family up and keeping them fuller longer. Win/win with grocery prices being so high.

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Tools You’ll Need

• Mixer with a dough hook attachment (this one is on sale!)
• measuring cup
• damp tea towel
• kitchen scraper or knife
• sheet pan or cast iron

How to Make Sourdough Pizza Dough

Ingredients

• 1 2/3 c. warm water
• 1 c. sourdough starter, fed (how to make a sourdough starter here)
• 1/4 c. olive oil
• 2 t. salt
• 6 1/3 c. flour (works with either all purpose or freshly milled whole wheat)

Directions

Pour warm water into your mixer bowl, then add sourdough starter and mix gently. Add flour, salt and olive oil, then knead to combine.

Knead for 7 minutes on low speed. I typically have my mixer at a level 2 speed because I’m impatient. Your dough should be soft and sticky but not sticky enough to actually come off on your hands. If it does, add more flour. This truly depends on your sourdough starter.

Put dough in a large bowl (or keep in the stand mixer bowl like I do) and cover with a damp tea towel. Let the dough rise for 8+ hours. The longer it ferments, the better it will be. I have used this dough in a shorter amount of time and it does work, but I can tell a difference between long fermenting and just a couple of hours of fermenting.

This sourdough pizza dough makes approximately 4 12″ pizza doughs or 8 calzones.

Baking the Sourdough Pizza Dough

When you’re ready to make your pizza or calzone, preheat your oven to 425 degrees F. If you’re using cast iron, put them in the oven while it is preheating.

Sourdough Pizza

I like to roll the dough out to about the same diameter around as the skillet it’s going to cook in. For example, I have 2 12″ skillets and 1 17″ skillet (Bertha). I roll out one 17″ pizza dough and 2 other 12″ pizza doughs before putting them in the skillet.

When baking the pizza in cast iron, I always add a little olive oil to the skillet before putting in the dough. Bake until cheese is melted to your liking and crust is a deep golden brown (about 12-15 minutes).

Sourdough Calzones

Using a kitchen scraper, cut out dough evenly into 8 sections. Roll them into balls, then cover with a damp towel while working on individual dough balls.

Roll each ball out with a rolling pin until about 1/4″ thickness. Top with your favorite toppings and fold it in half while crimping the sides shut in a spiral motion. This prevents the insides from becoming outsides.

Cut a slit in the top of the calzone and bake for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.

That’s it! This is truly such an easy and versatile sourdough pizza dough. I hope you enjoy it just as much as my family does!

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