Monday, August 26, 2024

It's Pizza Night - Deep Dish Chicago Pizza


You know us - we LOVE pizza.  
We love it so much we built a 
pizza oven in our last house, 
our daughter built one in her house, 
we built one in our new house,
our other daughter got a 
Pizza Craft pizza oven she 
uses in her garage, and my 
son started 
Friday Night Pizza Nights 
at his house.
He uses a pizza steel.  


That son and his wife just had 
a new baby this summer, and 
he had mentioned he wanted 
a deep dish Chicago style pizza. 
I had given him my mom's 
deep dish pizza pan, but he 
said it was too big for their 
family, so I decided to find a 
recipe and try it.  


I had never had this style of 
pizza before.  I grew up in 
Wisconsin, just a few hours 
from Chicago, and the Chicago 
style pizza we had wasn't 
like this.  

The secret to this is the dough.
It has butter in the dough and then 
you laminate it with butter.  

Don't be intimidated by the 
lamination, it is a lot easier 
than making croissants. 

The recipe made two so 
we were able to eat one 
and his family had one.  

Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza Crust

3 1/4. C. flour
1/2 C. cornmeal
1 tsp. salt
1 T. sugar
1 T. yeast
1 1/4 C. warm water
1/4 C. melted butter
1/4 C. softened butter

Mix everything but the 
softened butter in your mixer 
using a dough hook for around 
5 minutes.  Let it rise covered 
in a greased bowl for one hour 
or until doubled. 

Punch dough down and roll out 
like you are making cinnamon rolls, 
into about a 15x12 inch rectangle,
and spread the softened butter 
on the dough.  

Roll the dough up lengthwise 
and then cut the dough in half.  
Form each half into a ball.  

Place the balls in your greased 
bowl, cover and let rise in 
fridge for about an hour.

See, that was so easy!  
You want the butter to firm
up so that the dough has 
buttery layers when it is baked. 

Spread each dough ball into 
a 9 inch springform pan, 
pushing it up the sides.  You 
want the dough to encase all 
of the wonderful fillings. 

Layer provolone cheese on 
the bottom of the dough in the 
pan, then top with 2 C. grated 
mozzarella, cooked 
Italian sausage, and 
your favorite pizza or spaghetti 
sauce.  You want the sauce thick, 
so if you use a prepared sauce, 
cook it down a bit.  Finish 
with grated parmesan.  

Bake at 425 for about 
30 minutes.  You want the 
cheese all melted through.  

Let cool for a few minutes 
and then unmold.  

You will love this pizza. 
They liked it so much they had 
it for breakfast the next day.

That crust - amazing!!




1 comment:

  1. Pizza, yummm, we love ❤️ it, especially deep dish pizza. It sounds like the whole family loves pizza with their own pizza ovens. Thanks for making me crave some pizza now.

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