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Sourdough Puttanesca Pizza

Learning Objective

Learn how to make sourdough pizza using one of our Botanical Blends to increase the diversity in your baking.

Learning Outcome

You will have used freshly milled flour to bake a sourdough pizza.

This Puttanesca pizza is a big hitter when it comes to flavour. It's got all the things I really love: sun-blushed tomatoes, black olives and capers, along with that lovely sweet, tomato-chilli hit from the sauce…

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Is sourdough pizza better for you?

Making sourdough pizza from scratch is easy: it just needs flour, salt, water, starter and time. Getting a really vigorous starter is very important, and the long, slow fermentation, coupled with the extra fibre from the wholegrain flour in this recipe, means it is healthier than a yeasted pizza. What's more, this approach helps to control blood sugar.

Is sourdough pizza healthy?

Our sourdough pizza is really healthy. It starts with making your own sourdough pizza dough, then topping it with topping with a rich tomato sauce or a creamy bianca sauce and fresh, high-quality ingredients. Homemade pizza is immeasurably better for you than takeaway pizza: there is less salt, less fat and more fibre. This pizza is more satiating and also delivers more nourishment to the gut microbiome.

Easy pizza recipe.

This pizza recipe is quick and easy. The fermentation is the long bit, and we recommend that you freeze one of the pizza bases, so you have one in the freezer ready to bake on a Friday night, straight from the freezer when you want pizza the most.

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