Deep Dish Pizza

15 ingredients
1 steps

Ingredients

  • Crust
  • 2 (1/4 ounce) packages quick-rising yeast
  • 2 cups tepid water (90 degrees)
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • 1/2 cup cornmeal
  • 5 1/2 cups flour
  • Filling
  • 1/3 lb sliced mozzarella cheese
  • 2 cups canned plum tomatoes, drained and squished
  • 1 teaspoon basil leaves
  • 1 teaspoon oregano
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed
  • 3 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese, for topping
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil

Directions

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    ["In the bowl of your electric mixer- KitchenAid is perfect for this- dissolve the yeast in the water.", "Add the oils, cornmeal, and 3 cups of the flour.", "Beat for 10 minutes with the mixer.", "Add the dough hook and mix in the additional 21/2 cups flour.", "Knead for several minutes with the machine.", "It is hard to do this by hand since the dough is very rich and moist.", "Pour out the dough on a plastic countertop and cover with a very large metal bowl.", "Allow to rise double in bulk.", "Punch down and allow to rise again.", "Punch down a second time and you are ready to make your pizza.", "Oil round cake pans or deep dish pizza pan.", "Put a bit of dough in each and push it out to the edges, using your fingers.", "Put in enough dough so that you can run the crust right up the side of the pan.", "Try to make it approximately 1/8\" thick throughout the pan.""

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