Sicilian Pizza Dough
The Hobby Wife · thehobbywife.com · 2025 · Original
Sicilianas labeled by the source
DietVegan. 6 ingredients checked. Reviewed: flour, salt, sugar, yeast, water, oil.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
Sicilian style, 64% hydration: drier than 57% of the 1,480 doughs that parse.
Sicilian (Sicily): thick spongy crumb, often with anchovy/breadcrumb/caciocavallo; sometimes cheeseless
Tradition: 65 to 75% hydration (this recipe: 64%) · 450 to 550°F bake
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
616g
Water
395g
Hydration
64.1%
Salt
2.4%
Yeast
0.49%
Oil
13.2%
Sauce
n/a
Cheese
n/a
Dough weight
1115g
Process
Bake temp
n/a
Bake time
10 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Bulk
2h
Ingredients (6)
- flourbread flour or all-purpose flour4 1/4 cup · 616g
- saltfine sea salt2 1/2 tsp · 15g
- sugarsugar1 tsp · 4.2g
- yeastinstant dry yeast1 tsp · 3g
- waterwarm water1 2/3 cup · 395g
- oilextra-virgin olive oil6 tbsp · 81.6g
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