After watching a mouth-watering episode of Pizza Paradise on TLC, I was determined to try my hand at the Chicago-style deep-dish pizza. My attempts at making a thin-crust pizza from scratch years ago had been moderately successful at best, but did that stop me from taking the plunge again? No sirrrrreee! :)
If anyone has a sure-fire way to make a deep dish stuffed pizza that has a soft-yet-crunchy, dry crust, please post a comment!
The dough - doubled in size after 2 hrs
The result was...ahem....a notch below moderately successful - the veggies let off a lot of water while cooking and the crust got soggy in parts. :( Next time around, will avoid the top crust entirely - hopefully that will mean that the moisture evaporates rather than being trapped into sogginess.
Now for the pics....they demonstrate the recipe, which I am not mentioning here 2 reasons:
1. My variation was NOT successful
2. Its a generic easily-available-on-the-Net recipe that you can adapt to your taste
And now, may the droolgates open.....
The flour+salt+oil
Yeast, bubbling over...
The dough
The dough - doubled in size after 2 hrs
Ingredients for the filling
Layer 1 - bottom crust
Spread over with pizza sauce
Dotted with slices (here - clumps) of pizza cheese/mozarella
Mushrooms, onions, peppers - with salt and black pepper
Tumble the veggies into the pie crust
Top crust - 2nd layer of pizza dough with sauce
Top with powdered Parmesan
Bake till the bread's done
Look at the height of this one!
V.S. of the monster
My slice...err...wedge!
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nice recipe !!! may be u can partially sautee the veggies with the littlest bit of oil to reduce the sogginess? also to make the dough crunchy, how about add an egg to the dough?
ReplyDeleteHey WOW! looks yummy! lotsa photos i see ;)
ReplyDelete@Vinita - Stir-frying the veggies sounds like a good solution, must try it next time... :) I was thinking of skipping the top layer of dough to let the water evaporate..
ReplyDelete@attempt1 - LOOKS is the key word... :D
:):) i m sure it was damnn yummmy.... mala kadhi milnar??
ReplyDeleteWhenever you make it! :D Jokes apart - anytime after I perfect the recipe, sweets...
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