Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza

By mrsstein1

Dinner

Ingredients

• Dough:
• 4 tsp powdered yeast
• 7 oz warm water
• 3 cups flour
• 8 tbs olive oil
• 1 tsp salt
• Sauce:
• 2 28- oz cans canned tomatoes(Italian plum tomatoes)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp basil
• 4 tsp sugar
• 1 small can pizza sauce
• 1 tsp oregano
• 12-16 oz part skimmed mozzarella cheese
• Toppings of your choice
• Parmesan and Romano Cheese

Preparation

Step 1

Dough:
dissolve yeast in warm water. Mix all ingredients in a large bowl. Knead for 5 minutes on a floured board. Put dough in a lightly oiled bowl; cover with a damp cloth and put in warm place. Allow to rise 1 hour ir until double in size.

Sauce:
Squeeze tomatoes over strainer until mushy, drain and discard juice. Add salt, pepper, basil, sugar and pizza sauce. Stir well and set aside.

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 500 degrees with rack in bottom position. Grease pan with olive oil up side at dough down for a few minutes, sprinkle with lots of flour. Press dough out until it covers the pan edge to edge.
Put cheese all over dough. Place toppings on cheese.spoon sauce mixture over cheese. Press into cheese. Sprinkle with oregano and Parmesan and Romano . Cook for 20 minutes.