Mother’s Day Sourdough Pizza Workshop | Sara Di Rocco

Mother’s Day sourdough pizza workshop in Lisbon for anyone who wants to give the best kind of gift: an afternoon of making something delicious from scratch together. Held at Sara Di Rocco’s home in Lisbon, this hands-on session takes you through the full process of authentic sourdough pizza, from mixing and shaping your own dough using a live sourdough starter to choosing your toppings and sitting down to eat the pizza you just made, paired with wine, beer or soft drinks. No prior experience needed, recipe card included and an optional sourdough starter to take home if you want to keep the journey going. The session runs under the watchful supervision of Sara’s cat Covinha. Cat allergy or strong anti-cat stance? Just get in touch and an alternative arrangement will be sorted.

The techniques are inspired by a Naples pizza chef and refined over years of Sara’s own practice, which means you are learning a method that has been tested, adjusted and genuinely worked out rather than something put together for the occasion. You will understand how wild yeast and bacteria in the sourdough starter create complex flavour and improved digestibility, how to achieve the right dough consistency and gluten development, how to shape a proper pizza base with a characteristic cornicione, and how to bake for that leopard-spotted char that tells you the pizza is right. The session ends with everyone sitting down together to eat, which is, as always, the whole point.

What you’ll learn

🍕 How sourdough starter works as a living fermentation culture

🍕 How to mix sourdough pizza dough from scratch including hydration and ingredient ratios

🍕 Kneading and folding techniques for gluten development and dough strength

🍕 Traditional hand stretching methods for shaping a proper pizza base

🍕 Topping selection and application balancing flavour and moisture

🍕 Baking technique for authentic texture, charred crust and chewy interior

What’s included

🍷 Full hands-on sourdough pizza making session from start to finish

🍷 All ingredients and equipment

🍷 Wine, beer and soft drinks included

🍷 Recipe card to recreate the pizza at home

🍷 Optional sourdough starter to take home (bring your own jar)

🍷 A full meal of the pizza you made

What you leave with

A full belly, a recipe that works, and optionally a sourdough starter to keep making pizza at home from this point forward.

I am Sara Di Rocco and alongside my sourdough bread, kimchi, bone broth, tea blending, tea meditation and pasta workshops, this is one of my favourites to teach. Sourdough pizza rewards understanding the process rather than just following steps, and this session is built around that understanding. The inspiration comes from a Naples pizza chef and the method has been refined over years of my own practice at home in Lisbon.

Sessions run with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 10 participants. Two tickets must be purchased for the workshop to be confirmed. Wear clothes you do not mind getting flour on. Please inform Sara of any dietary restrictions in advance.