Sourdough Garlic Mushroom

Name: Sourdough Garlic Mushroom
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 3 min
Total time: 44 h 8 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Sourdough
Ingredients: 570 g Central Milling Organic Type 00 Pizza Flour; 367 g water; 15.8 g salt; 127 g starter; 4 balls Pizza dough (see formula above); 42 g Olive oil; 4 cloves, thinly sliced Garlic; pinch Red pepper flakes; 300g, sliced Mixed mushrooms; 200g, torn Fontina cheese; 3 g Fresh thyme; 30g, grated Parmigiano; drizzle Truffle oil (Optional)

Earthy mushrooms on tangy sourdough with garlic oil, fontina, and thyme. Sophisticated white pizza.

Recipe by the Pizza Planet team · Published March 5, 2026

Prep + bake 28 min · Dough schedule 43 h 40 min · Total 44 h 8 min4 servings

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Earthy on earthy on earthy. The trick to mushroom pizza is cooking the mushrooms until they squeak — a stage you reach about a minute past 'they look done.' Until you hit it, they're throwing water on your pizza. Past it, they concentrate into something almost meaty. Fontina is mandatory; mozzarella alone is too neutral to stand up to the mushroom funk. The truffle oil is optional but tasteful at a small drizzle — go heavy and it becomes a parody of itself. Undercooked mushrooms are the fastest route to a soggy middle on a pizza with no sauce to blame.

Flour: Central Milling Organic Type 00 Pizza Flour (11.5% protein) — read the review

Dough Formula

Dough formula in grams and baker's percentage
Ingredient	Grams	Baker's %
Flour (11.5% protein)	570 g	100.0%
Water	367 g	64.4%
Salt	15.8 g	2.8%
Starter (100% hydration)	127 g	22.3%

Makes 4 balls of ≈270 g

Ingredients

Dough

•4 balls Pizza dough (see formula above)

Garlic Oil

•42 g Olive oil
•4 cloves, thinly sliced Garlic
•pinch Red pepper flakes

Toppings

•300g, sliced Mixed mushrooms
•200g, torn Fontina cheese
•3 g Fresh thyme
•30g, grated Parmigiano
•drizzle Truffle oil — Optional

Instructions

1
Make the dough: mix 127 g active 100%-hydration starter with the flour, water and salt per the formula above. Bulk ferment 4 h at room temperature, then cold ferment 24 h in the fridge. Divide and ball, then give the balls a 3 h room-temperature proof before shaping.
2
Make garlic oil: warm olive oil with garlic and pepper flakes until fragrant (2-3 min).
3
Sauté mushrooms in a dry hot pan until golden and dry (5-7 min).
💡 Don't crowd the pan.
4
Stretch dough, brush with garlic oil.
5
Top with fontina, mushrooms, and thyme.
6
Bake at 470-495°C (880-920°F) for 75-90 seconds.
7
Finish with parmigiano and optional truffle oil.

Tips

→Hands-on time is about 28 minutes; allow the dough its full ferment — see the calculator schedule
→Cook mushrooms until ALL moisture is gone
→The garlic oil replaces sauce — brush generously
→Sourdough's tang pairs beautifully with earthy mushrooms

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How to Make Sourdough Garlic Mushroom

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Flour
Central Milling Organic Type 00 Pizza Flour
The one American bag here with a published alveograph number: W280–300 at 11.5% protein. Strength from gluten quality rather than quantity, and built for two- and three-day cold ferments.
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Original Baking Steel
6.4 mm is the home compromise: enough stored heat to bake two pies back to back, in a slab that will never crack the way a cordierite stone eventually does.
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Skyflame Aluminium Pizza Peel (14 × 16 in)
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