Wednesday Recipe: Chicago Pizza Crust
Ingredients
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5 cups flour, all-purpose
- 1 3/4 cups water, cold
- 3 tablespoons lard
- 2 1/2 teaspoons sea salt, fine
- 1 3/4 teaspoons malt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons (1 pack) yeast, instant and dry
Instructions
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Add water, then yeast and whisk together
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Add flour, then malt and begin to slowly mix
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After it begins to come together, give the bowl a scrape to get remnants on bottom.
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Add lard in the middle and gently mix together. Add salt
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Once bowl is fairly clean, remove dough and give a quick hand knead by hand.
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Place back into bowl, cover with saran wrap and let sit 4 - 5 hours
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Roll out dough until it’s big enough to put into a deep dish pan.
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Preheat oven to 450 degrees F
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Coat bottom and sides of a 12-inch cake pan or traditional Chicago style pizza pan with melted butter. Spread out about three-quarters of dough across the bottom and up the sides of the pan. Cover bottom in 100% mozzarella cheese, all the way up to the edge. Add your favorite toppings and spread out to the edge. Top with grated parmesan.
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Bake about 25 min or until done.