How to Freeze Pizza Dough
Total Time
5 mins
Prep Time
5 mins
Rating
5 out of 5 stars
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Ingredients
4 servings
- 1 Pizza Dough Recipe, divided into 4 portions
- 2 tsp olive oil, to grease the pan or tupperware
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Preparation
Step 1
Arrange the dough in a deep, oiled baking pan with some room to expand, cover pan with plastic wrap and let it do the overnight cold fermentation in the refrigerator.
Step 2
Transfer the pan with dough into the freezer overnight. Once frozen, remove each piece of dough from the baking pan and transfer into its own freezer zip bag or foodsaver bag and store in the freezer for 3-4 months.
Step 3
Lightly oil the bottom and sides of your Tupperware containers.
Step 4
Place pizza dough into the containers, cover and refrigerate for the overnight cold fermentation (so there’s no need to transfer it later). You can also place dough into tupperware after the cold fermentation is done. Cover tightly with lids and freeze up to 3 months.
Step 5
To thaw pizza dough, remove dough balls from the freezer and place them onto a baking pan lined with flour or semolina. Dust the tops with flour so plastic wrap doesn’t stick to the dough then cover and thaw in the refrigerator overnight (8-12 hours).
Step 6
Place containers in the refrigerator overnight to defrost.
Step 7
Keep dough at room temperature for 1 hour before baking so it softens and relaxes and is easier to stretch. Shape the dough according to our pizza dough recipe instructions.
Step 8
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Chef's notes
The dough needs to be done with the rising/fermentation process or at the point when the dough is ready to use.
With our pizza dough, we let it go through the cold fermentation process overnight first to let the yeast work in the dough.
Cold defrosting is the BEST method to thaw pizza dough.
If working with multiple dough pieces, keep the remaining pieces covered so they don’t dry out.
