Pizza Bianca is a classic Roman flatbread with a crispy golden crust and a beautifully airy interior. You’ll find it throughout Rome, where it’s used to make sandwiches, and you’ll also see it topped with many of the ingredients found on traditional pizza. I love having a basket of this bread on the table for everyone to enjoy with food and wine, so it’s often the first thing I make once I fire up the oven.
I’m going to make the dough using a Biga, which is a preferment commonly used in Italian baking. The Biga is very easy to make and should be prepared the day before. This enhances the flavor and creates a lighter, more textured bread. I’m also going to use my dough mixer, since this is a high-hydration dough—with a flour-to-water ratio of 75%, which can be challenging to make by hand. Plus, it just makes life easier.
This recipe makes 4 Pizza Bianca, but you can always divide the ingredients if you don’t want to make that many.
The Biga:
600 grams of water
15 grams of honey
800g all-purpose flour (I used Bob’s Red Mill Organic Unbleached White All Purpose Flour)
9 grams of active dry yeast
The Dough:
All the Biga
260 grams of water
345 grams of 00 flour (I used King Arthur ’00’ Flour)
25 grams of EVOO,
23 grams of salt
The wine is a 2021 Passopisciaro Passobianco from the Etna region of Sciliy.
The peel is from Pastry Chef Central.
The mixer is a Famag
0:00 Introduction
1:26 Making the Biga
2:28 Mixing the dough
5:30 Portioning the dough
8:58 Preparing the oven
10:10 Shaping the Pizza Bianca
11:40 Baking the Pizza Bianca
40 Comments
Bread is excellent! So relaxing movie. Smells holidays.
What was the room temperature when you were proofing the dough
I just stumbled on your channel. What a beautiful oven! Curious which dough mixer you use. I've looked at several, but they all seem too bulky for my purposes. That looks to be on the smaller side.
I always sit down with a glass of wine to watch Clive – almost feels like I’m there. Another great cook
I will have a great month!! Video is what I needed! Thank you Clive
Found this again! Easily one of the top food-shows ever on Youtube (also maybe should be sold in pharmacies as a cure to depression? 🙂 )
I have a small gas "Ooni" pizza oven but this really is the real deal and perfection!
Greetings from Finland! Thank you and keep it up!! Amazing!
Great to see you again Clive.
Exceptionally well done video….thorough, well thought out, background music not to loud, never in a hurry etc… etc… Not mention a lovely home as well as fired oven… If I were Siskel & Ebert I would give it (for sure) two thumbs up.
Nice video.
Which mixer did you use in this video?
Thank you.
I need to learn to relax at the oven like Clive. I have a small wood pizza oven and my cooking sessions are very chaotic. Juggling the dough and the fire and running into the house to look for something I forgot. By the time I sit down with the family I’m tired and sweaty. But the videos are inspiring and I tried pizza Bianca today, the dough is a little hard to handle but was a nice airy crust.
Clive that looks amazing. At the end, was that your wife asking about your dough relaxing. Have a blessed week.
Simply Wow !!!
Man, am I jealous of this guy for his back yard. It's stunning.
I wonder about using different type of wood. I thinking about different tastes that comes with different wood. I know that wood is burining here not smokes, but still will oak give some other taste than apple wood?
Bravo Clive – just a wonderful presentation once again. So nice to see you again my friend 😊
Looks great, very crispy and airy!
What type (0/00) and strength (w) of flour did you use?
Clive, I am making this today. My fingers are crossed, because it’s a very wet dough. Have you ever topped this dough with sauce and cheese?
You make me want to get outside and fire up my oven! Very clear instructions and easy to follow, I can't wait to try this. Thank you
"This channel is my little oasis—always brings me peace and good vibes. Thank you for what you do!"
A lot of prep but looks delicious
I have the very same spiral mixer, it’s a game changer. Another beautiful video, Clive.
Wunderbar 👍🏻🇩🇪
Another great video Chef, please 🙏🏼 keep pumping them out 🤘🏼👀🤘🏼
Dough looked amazing as did the resulting bread. Did you say you can make a pizza out of it though?
another great recipe to try out!….currently a fire ban (incl. wood fired ovens) here on Vancouver island…will def try and report!!
Clive, I cannot thank you enough for both your wonderful content AND for your assistance (when I needed advice on my own wood fired oven.) I got the same model as you and installed in in my outdoor kitchen in our Las Vegas home. We had many meals and wonderful times with friends while there. We have since moved east to South Carolina where I hope to re-create the magnificent backyard paradise you were so instrumental in designing.
Duuuuuude…………….. where was the tasting? I'm left totally hanging…… A bite and a sip of wine is the finish!
❤ Paz, tranquilidad y buena comida, la esencia de la gastronomía
This is one of the best roman pizza bianca video I’ve seen so far! Bravo 🙂
As new Australian kids pizza Bianca was how we preferred to eat pizza. Salami , olives and cheese were on the side. Not on the bread.
From the first time I discovered this channel, that music, the crackling sound of the fire burning, and of course the amazing recipes, it is just wonderful. Thank you Clive
nice 🔥 🔥 🔥
I've tried poolish in the past, for pizza, but not biga. This looks delicious, just need to match it with a similar temperature baking item, maybe one of your chicken recipes? You have so many goods one to choose from, it is hard to decide.
Love all you videos Clive, so good your back making them. On average how many times a month or week would you cook in the wood oven?.
This looks absolutely divine! I love how you captured the essence of Pizza Bianca — that golden crust and airy interior are perfection 👌👌👌👌❤❤
Your garden is beautiful.
The pizza looks delicious.
Humble dude. A wood fired stone oven is all a man needs.
Nice mixer
HE'S BAAAAACK!!!!!!!!! SO glad every time you come back to post. The music, the fire, the recipes, your calm energy. I LOVE this channel
I like this recipe, half way between pizza and focaccia.