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Mini deep dish pizzas

Alison Adams · taste.com.au · 2017 · Original

Chicago Deep-Dishas labeled by the source

DietNot vegetarian: twiggy sticks (cured meat).

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: 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

500g

Water

n/a

Hydration

n/a

Salt

n/a

Yeast

1.26%

Oil

0%

Sauce

n/a

Cheese

n/a

Dough weight

506g

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

Process

Bake temp

446°F / 230°C

Bake time

12 to 15 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

cast iron pan

Ingredients (6)

  • sauce tomatotomato pasta saucen/a
  • yeastinstant dried yeast1 1/2 tsp · 6.3g
  • waterwarm watern/a
  • flourbread and pizza plain flour500g
  • saltm table saltn/a
  • oilm extra virgin olive oiln/a

Toppings (3)

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

  • over cheese24 baby bocconcini
  • over cheese2 twiggy sticks2 stick
  • post bakeFresh basil leaves

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