Sicilian Pizza Dough Recipe: 65% Hydration, Cold Ferment
The Pizza Craft · thepizzacraft.com · 2026 · Original
Sicilianas labeled by the source
DietVegan. 5 ingredients checked. Reviewed: flour, water, salt, yeast, oil.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
Sicilian style, 65% hydration: drier than 55% 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: 65%) · 450 to 550°F bake
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Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
500g
Water
325g
Hydration
65.0%
Salt
2.0%
Yeast
0.40%
Oil
5.0%
Sauce
n/a
Cheese
n/a
Dough weight
907g
Process
Bake details not stated on the source page.
Ingredients (5)
- flourbread flour500g
- waterwater325g
- saltfine sea salt10g
- yeast2g instant yeast2g
- oilextra-virgin olive oil45g
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