Wood-Fired Pizza Dough

make your own shadow ranch pizza at home!

Wood-fired pizzas are back at Shadow Ranch! Every Sunday this summer we are offering our delicious wood-fired pizzas on the patio. Our regular offerings include Margherita, Pepperoni and Fig+Walnut+Gorgonzola+Arugula pizzas. We’ve received requests from several of you for the recipe for the dough, so we are sharing it here!

Pizza Dough Recipe (Yields six 10 inch pizzas)

Equipment:

• Stand mixer with dough hook attachment

Ingredients:

• 3 cups (450 g) All Purpose Flour
• 3 cups (450 g) “OO” Flour
• 1 1/2 tbsp salt
• 1/4 tsp Instant Dry Yeast
• 2 cups slightly warm water + 1/4 cup more
• 1 tbps olive oil

Directions:

• Whisk together the flours and salt
• Put 2 cups of water and the yeast in a bowl and let sit 3 minutes
• Add one cup of the flour mixture to the water/yeast mixture and whisk to make a slurry
• Start mixer slowly with dough hook
• Slowly add the slurry
• Add 1/4 cup more water or just enough until the dough comes together in a ball
• Let the mixer knead the dough for 5 minutes
• Put dough in oiled container and drizzle olive oil on top. Cover tightly with lid
• Let rise for 3 hours or overnight
• Punch down. Measure out 6 even dough balls, usually ~250 g each
• Let rest for 2 hours before using