Delivery Style Pizza Dough Recipe by Delayed Fermentation
by Liv | Published on November 7th, 2008, 7:14 pm | Food
Delivery Style Pizza Dough Recipe by Delayed Fermentation
Well what's old becomes new again. Tonight I get to go back and update one of the oldest recipes I ever started out with. In fact, I spent several years on what I thought was the perfect pizza dough. The "Old fashioned way" as I used to make- required a high-gluten flour to create a sudden surge in yeast activity. The problem is that it's hard to find bakery quality flours, now that I don't have direct access to a bakery. Recently I decided I wanted to try making dough by a process called delayed fermentation, which unlike the old method which involved "activating" the yeast with warm water, you actually use cold water instead, and place the dough in the refrigerator to slowly absorb the sugars, and create the perfect chewy pizza dough the next day.
I did it on a whim, and it works really well. The dough was quite incredible, and while I'm confident if you have a french baguette or high gluten flour you'd probably be able to shorten the process, the overnight-"cold" delayed fermentation method seems to produce similar, if not better results.
- Pizza Dough (White Pizza)
[color=#FF4000]Ingredients:
(for 1 pizza)
Directions:
In large bowl add flour, salt, & dry-yeast. Mix with fork. Add ¾ cups of water, (may need slightly more for low-humidity environments) and create ball of dough by mixing ingredients. As dough is formed begin kneading it (tucking it into itself, and then beating it down with your fists) for about 8-10 minutes. Spray a large (freezer style) zippered plastic bag with non-fat cooking spray, and place dough ball in bag. Close, and place in refrigerator over-night.
Remove dough from refrigerator and place in room-temperature environment in a bowl approximately 1 hour prior to baking. As you prepare to bake the pizza, pre-heat oven to 450F. Take a large pizza sheet and coat with corn meal (or non stick spray) and spread dough over top, top with favorite veggies, marinara, and low-fat cheese.
