The Best Deep Dish Pizza Pie
glitter · food.com · 2004 · Original
Chicago Deep-Dishas labeled by the source
DietNot vegetarian: italian sausage.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
Chicago Deep-Dish style, one of 73 in the lab. Its dough did not parse to grams, so it sits out the dough comparisons.
Chicago Deep-Dish (Chicago): buttery cornmeal crust in deep pan, cheese UNDER sauce (Uno/Malnati), ~2" deep, 35-45 min bake
Tradition: 50 to 60% hydration · 425 to 500°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
444g
Water
n/a
Hydration
n/a
Salt
3.9%
Yeast
n/a
Oil
6.1%
Sauce
760g
Cheese
680g
Dough weight
493g
Flour or hydration falls outside the parsable range, so this dough sits out the charts.
Process
Bake temp
n/a
Bake time
45 to 50 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
cast iron pan
Ingredients (11)
- yeast1 package active dry yeastn/a
- sugarsugar1 tsp · 4.2g
- flourall-purpose flour3 1/4 cup · 406g
- saltsalt1 1/2 tsp · 9g
- oilolive oil2 tbsp · 27.2g
- flourflour3 tbsp · 37.5g
- cheese mozzarellamozzarella cheese1 lb · 454g
- cheese otherherkimer white cheddar cheese1/2 lb · 227g
- sauce tomatopeeled whole tomatoes16 oz · 454g
- sauce tomatotomato sauce1 cup · 245g
- sauce tomatotomato paste1/4 cup · 61.3g
Toppings (11)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheesewhite cornmeal2 tbsp · 25g
- over cheeseItalian sausage1 lb · 454g
- over cheese2 medium onions
- over cheese1 large green pepper
- over cheesemushrooms6 oz · 170g
- over cheese1 slice black olives
- over cheesefennel1 1/2 tsp · 6.3g
- over cheesedried oregano1 1/2 tsp · 0.8g
- over cheesedried red pepper flakes1 tsp · 4.2g
- over cheesefresh ground black pepper0.1 tsp · 0.5g
- over cheesedried basil1 tsp · 0.5g
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