Dooley and Doolia: Deep Dish Pizza

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June 12, 2011

Deep Dish Pizza

For dinner tonight, Dooley and Doolia made Deep Dish Pizza from the The Complete America's Test Kitchen TV Show Cookbook. We started out with great uncertainty, which continued until the finished 'za came out of the oven.

This recipe, made entirely from scratch, surprisingly calls for an idaho potato and no tomato sauce. What kind of pizza is this, we wondered.

To add to our confusion, we had shopped at three stores and couldn't find a deep dish pizza pan anywhere. (Finally, we were able to order one at GFS, but it won't be in for 2 weeks.) So we looked around the kitchen to find a suitable substitute, and settled on using two traditional pie plates.

We boiled the potato, grated and measured it, then added to it the flour, yeast, oil, and water for the pizza dough. Even with the extra flour that the recipe says you may add if the dough is too wet, the mixture was incredibly loose and sticky. But we trusted the book and let it rise. And rise again, and finally we put it into the well oiled pie plates. On such loose dough, there was no hope of it hugging the sides of the pans or creating any sort of lip to hold the toppings. After a third rise, we "docked" the dough with a fork. Docking means poking a lot of holes through the dough, thereby preventing big air bubbles from forming on the bottom.

The crusts get pre-baked before any toppings go on. When they came out of the oven, we arranged over the top thinly sliced tomatoes that had marinated for a while with freshly cut basil and minced garlic (plus a little salt and pepper). Then shredded part skim mozzerella cheese, and because my family are meat lovers, we added pepperoni slices and some crumbled bacon. These two ingredients were not in the recipe, but ended up as nice additions. And finally, a sprinking of freshly grated parmesan cheese. And into the oven again until the mozzerella was melted.

They turned out utterly fantastic. So we'll make this one again. On the weekend, though, because it takes over 3 hours from beginning to end. But it's totally worth it!

Posted by jdooley at June 12, 2011 08:52 PM

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