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Deep-Dish Beef 'n' Bean Taco Pizza

Taste of Home · tasteofhome.com · 2018 · Original

Chicago Deep-Dishinferred from the title

DietNot vegetarian: ground beef.

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: 400°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

474g

Hydration

n/a

Salt

1.6%

Yeast

1.89%

Oil

0%

Sauce

67g

Cheese

226g

Dough weight

875g

Hydration above 95% is almost certainly a cups-to-grams parse error, so this dough sits out the charts.

Process

Bake temp

400°F / 204°C

Bake time

15 to 18 min

Oven

home standard

Surface

cast iron pan

Ingredients (10)

  • flourall-purpose flour3 cup · 375g
  • saltsalt1 tsp · 6g
  • yeast1 package quick-rise yeast7.1g
  • waterwarm water2 cup · 474g
  • sugarhoney1 tbsp · 12.5g
  • sauce tomatotaco sauce1/3 cup · 66.7g
  • cheese othershredded Colby-Monterey Jack cheese2 cup · 226g
  • sauce tomatoChopped tomatoesn/a
  • sauce tomatoCrushed tortilla chipsn/a
  • dairy doughSour creamn/a

Toppings (9)

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

  • over cheesecornmeal1/2 cup · 100g
  • over cheeseground beef1 lb · 454g
  • over cheese1 envelope taco seasoning
  • over cheeserefried beans1 cup · 200g
  • over cheeseOPTIONAL TOPPINGS:
  • over cheeseShredded lettuce
  • over cheeseSliced ripe olives
  • over cheeseDiced avocado
  • over cheeseSalsa

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