Deep Dish Pizza

• Vegetarian

• Produce

  • 1 Potato

• Condiments

  • 1 Pizza sauce, homemade or store bought

• Baking & Spices

  • 3 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 tsp Instant yeast
  • 1 3/4 tsp Salt

• Oils & Vinegars

  • 2 tbsp Olive oil, Extra Virgin
  • 2 tbsp Olive oil

• Dairy

  • 2 tbsp Butter, unsalted
  • 1/2 Cheddar cheese
  • 2 cups Mozzarella cheese
  • 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese

• Liquids

  • 1 cup Water

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Description

Ingredients

• 1 potato, boiled, peeled and shredded
• 3.5 cups all purpose flour (about 17.5 ounces)
• 1.5 tsp instant yeast
• 1¾ tsp salt
• 1 cup warm water (about 110 degrees)
• 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• Prepping the deep dish pan:
• 2 tbsp olive oil, divided
• 2 tbsp unsalted butter, divided
• Toppings:
• 2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded
• ½ cheddar cheese, shredded
• ½ - 1 cup parmesan cheese, shredded
• Pizza Sauce (homemade or store bought)

Directions

• Boil potato. Once boiled, take it out of hot water and let it cool don until cool enough to touch. Peel and shred it into a bowl. Keep it aside.
• Place one oven rack to the highest position while the other to the lowest position in the oven, heat the oven to 200F. Once the oven beeps that it has reached to 200F, keep it on for 10 more minutes and then turn off the oven. We are doing this to create a warm environment where we will leave our dough to rise.
• In a bowl, add flour, yeast and salt and stir. Add warm water and mix. Add 1.5 cups lightly packed shredded potato to the dough and 2 tbsp oil and mix until the dough comes together into smooth ball. Coat a clean bowl with oil and place the dough ball there and cover tightly with plastic wrap. Keep it in already warmed up but now off oven and let it sit for 1 hour or until it almost doubles.
• Meanwhile make sure you have your shredded cheeses ready and sauce ready.
• Now once dough is ready, break it into 2 balls and keep it covered into a bowl. Take one ball out at a time and roll it into a 10 circle. Add 1 tbsp olive oil and 1 tbsp softened butter into a 8 deep dish pan where you will be baking the pizza. Rub this oil + butter mix all at the bottom and on the sides of the bowl and place this rolled out dough into this pan. Using your fingers, press this dough into the base and sides of the pan gently but firmly so it sticks to the sides. Now cover this using a plastic wrap and let it rise for 30 mins.
• Preheat oven to 500F and keep your pizza stone if using at the bottom oven rack. In case you are not using a pizza stone, keep an inverted rimless baking sheet on the lowest oven rack.
• After 30 mins, using a fork, poke the dough so it doesnt rise while baking.
• Lower the oven temperature to 425F. Add all the shredded cheeses and then top it with pizza sauce about ⅓ - ⅔ cups and then place it on the hot baking stone/baking sheet.
• Bake for 30-35 minutes in which time your crust should be cooked and cheeses should be melted.
• Then add few more tbsps of cheese on top of sauce and then place it on the top oven rack and turn the oven to broiler setting. Broil for 2-3 minutes NOT MORE or you will have burnt pizza!
• Cut in wedges using a pizza cutter and enjoy!