Chicago deep-dish pizza
Michelle Southan · taste.com.au · 2012 · Original
Chicago Deep-Dishas labeled by the source
DietNot vegetarian: prosciutto.
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 (this recipe: 446°F)
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
375g
Water
n/a
Hydration
n/a
Salt
n/a
Yeast
1.87%
Oil
0%
Sauce
65g
Cheese
250g
Dough weight
382g
Flour or hydration falls outside the parsable range, so this dough sits out the charts.
Process
Bake temp
446°F / 230°C
Bake time
25 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
cast iron pan
Ingredients (11)
- flourBread & Pizza Plain Flour375g
- yeastdried yeast2 tsp · 7g
- sugarLarge pinch of caster sugarn/a
- saltm saltn/a
- waterwarm watern/a
- oilm olive oiln/a
- oilOlive oil sprayn/a
- cheese otherfresh ricotta150g
- sauce tomatobought tomato pesto65g
- cheese otherPizza Plus cheese100g
- sauce tomato16 cherry truss tomatoesn/a
Toppings (7)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheese2 zucchini
- post bakechopped fresh basil30 ml · 30g
- over cheesechopped fresh chives20 ml · 20g
- over cheesefinely grated lemon rind1 tsp · 4.2g
- over cheese4 large slices prosciutto
- over cheesebought chargrilled capsicum80g
- over cheeseBaby spinach leaves
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