Deep Dish Pizza

2024-05-15 (dated: 2024-11-04)
Source: https://youtu.be/_cXVULu9RvE
Effort: high

Ingredients:

Dough:

• 430g of flour
• 82g of corn meal
• 12g of salt
• 14g of sugar
• 8g of instant yeast
• in 300ml of water (at around 35C!)
• 56g of melted butter (use in mixing)
• Additional 50g of butter (use in external butter-ification process)

Sauce:

• 4 slices of bacon
• 56g of olive oil
• 1 onion
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 7g of red pepper flakes
• 800g tomatoes crushed
• pinch of sugar
• Oregano
• Salt (to taste)

"Toppings":

• Generic eastern european cheese. Dvaro suris is the brand i prefer.
• Mozzarella
• Hard cheese, doesn't have to be fancy, Dziugo suris works here
• Any form of stackable or sliced meat

Prep:

Dough

• Mix flour, corn meal, salt, sugar
• Dissolve yeast in water
• (gently) Melt 56g of butter
• Mix in together yeast water, dry ingredients, butter
• LET RISE FOR 1 hr or doubled
• punch the dough, roll out
• add in mixing butter
• roll dough up
• cut in half, form into spheres, back into bowls they go,
• let rest in fridge for one more hour

Pizza proper

• Take out the dough, add into pan, should be something inbetween a pizza dough and a pie dough.
• Line a baking dish with the dough
• Add in a base layer of toppings, starting off with the meat if you have it
• Pour in the souce
• Sprinkle hard cheese on top
• Bake for about 30 minutes on 180C, convection on if you have it