Simple Deep Dish Pizza

Name: Simple Deep Dish Pizza
Cook time: 6 min
Ingredients: 0.75 cup 3/4 - 1 cup pizza sauce; 1 cup mixed veggies of choice ); 0 each Olive oil; 1 cup 1- 1 ½ cups mozzarella cheese; 0 each Grated parmesan cheese )

Minimalist Baker · minimalistbaker.com · 2013 · Original

Chicago Deep-Dish (asserted)

Chicago Deep-Dish (Chicago): buttery cornmeal crust in deep pan, cheese UNDER sauce (Uno/Malnati), ~2" deep, 35-45 min bake

Style norms: 50–60% hydration · 425–500°F bake (this recipe: 450°F)

Baker's percentages

Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%) — the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.

Flour

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Water

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Hydration

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Salt

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Yeast

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Oil

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Sauce

395g

Cheese

113g

Dough weight

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Process

Bake temp

450°F / 232°C

Bake time

4-6 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

cast iron pan

Ingredients (5)

sauce tomato3/4 - 1 cup pizza sauce0.75 cup · 150g
sauce tomatomixed veggies of choice )1 cup · 245g
oilOlive oil—
cheese mozzarella1- 1 ½ cups mozzarella cheese1 cup · 113g
cheese otherGrated parmesan cheese )—

Toppings (4)

Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.

over cheese1/2 batch pizza dough recipe
over cheese1 clove garlic
over cheeseItalian seasonings )
post bakeFresh basil )

Pizza Lab

Baker's percentages

Process

Ingredients (5)

Toppings (4)