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Deep-dish Mexican pizza

taste.com.au · 2017 · Original

Chicago Deep-Dishas labeled by the source

DietNot vegetarian: chorizo.

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.

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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: 428°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

150g

Cheese

165g

Dough weight

382g

Flour or hydration falls outside the parsable range, so this dough sits out the charts.

Process

Bake temp

428°F / 220°C

Bake time

20 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

cast iron pan

Ingredients (6)

  • flourplain flour375 ml · 375g
  • yeast7g sachet dried yeast7g
  • sugarm sugarn/a
  • oilm extra virgin olive oiln/a
  • cheese mozzarellagrated mozzarella165 ml · 165g
  • sauce tomatocherry tomatoes150g

Toppings (8)

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

  • over cheesemedium chunky salsa125 ml · 125g
  • over cheese1 chorizo
  • over cheese1/2 red onion
  • over cheese1/2 x 425g can black beans425g
  • over cheese1/2 x 175g packet vine sweet mini baby capsicum175g
  • over cheese1/2 avocado
  • over cheesem lime juice
  • over cheesefresh coriander leaves40 ml · 40g

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