100% BIGA Pizza dough with 48 hours leavening time

100% BIGAPizza Dough 48 Hours

List of Ingredients

BIGA:
500g Flour Typo 0 or 00 (min. 13% Proteine, min. W300)
250g Water
1 g Dry Yeast (3 g Fresh Yeast)

Main Dough:
90g Water (very cold) - 68% Hydration
15g fine Sea Salt

additional if you bake in a normal kitchen oven (for the main dough)
5g Honey
5g Olive Oil

Working Steps:
Put the flour into a box or bowl and mix it with the dry yeast. Add the water to the flour (in case of fresh yeast, dissolve the yeast in the water).
Mix all ingredients with circled movements. You also could use a spatula. Don't knead the dough. If the whole flour is taken over, put the BIGA into a narrow box and let it rest for 1-2 hours at room temperature. Then place it in the fridge (CT). for around 16-24 hours.

For the main dough put the cold BIGA into the mixer and add the salt. Start the machine and add the water in very little steps. Only add the next water when the previous is totally absorbed. If the whole water is in the dough continue kneading until the window test works. This will take around 15 minutes.
If you bake in a normal kitchen oven, add the honey before the water and the olive oil after the water, but also in very little steps.
Make the "Window Test".
Put the dough onto the counter, form a ball and put it into a box or bowl and close it to protect the dough from air. Let it rest for 1-2 hours at room temperature. Then put the box into the fridge for around 10 hours.

Prepare the Mozzarella, if it is based in salt water. Take the Mozzarella out, cut it into sticks (like french fries), put them into a sieve, cover it and let it drain in the fridge.
After the first 12-14 hours of leavening time, form 3 balls, 290g each.
Put them into a dough ball box, cover the lid and let it raise for around 8 hours in the fridge. Around 4-5 hours (depending on the temperature, the warmer the shorter) befor baking take them out of the fridge and let them raise at room temperature.

Pre-heat the oven.
If you have a Mozzarella which is not in salt water, cut it into sticks.
Prepare the tomatoe sauce:
San Marzano tomatoes into a bowl and tear them by hand. Use NO mixer, otherwise you could destroy the seed and this would build a bitter taste. Per can of tomatoes 5 g salt. Mix it and it is ready. You could also add 5 g of Olive Oil and a few leaves of fresh Basil which are teared.
Shape the pizza by hand.
Tomatoes - Parmesan - Basil - Mozzarella - Olive Oil - any other topings
Bake the pizza and enjoy.
In the kitchen oven (max temperature, two-sided heat, in the upper part of the oven) you bake the pizza in the first step only with the tomatoe sauce. This takes about 3 minutes until the crust gets slightly colored. Then take it out of the oven, top it with Parmesan - Basil - Mozzarella - Olive Oil - other topings and bake it again until the chees is melted and the crust has the color you want. This will take around 4 minutes.
You also could add the Basil after baking.
Everything is related to your taste. You can top your pizza with what ever you like.

My name is Juergen Einfalt.
I live in the wonderful Allgaeu and I'm a passionated Hobby-Pizza-Baker and Baker. I'm happy to share this passions with you. I try to upload every week a new recipe around Pizza and Bread. I want to share theoretical knowledge as well.
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