Chicago-Style Deep-Dish Loaded Veggie Pizza

Name: Chicago-Style Deep-Dish Loaded Veggie Pizza
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: One 1¼-oz [7-g] packet active dry yeast; 1 tsp sugar plus 1 Tbsp; 1¼ cups [300 ml] warm water (110° to 115°F/43° to 45°C); ½ cup [110 g] unsalted butter; 3½ cups [490 g] all-purpose flour; ½ cup [70 g] coarse cornmeal, plus more for sprinkling; 1 tsp fine sea salt; 1 lb [455 g] mozzarella cheese, shredded; thinly sliced green bell pepper, thinly sliced onion, diced cherry tomatoes, sliced button mushrooms, pitted black olives, pineapple chunks, sliced marinated artichoke hearts; thinly sliced green bell pepper, thinly sliced onion, diced cherry tomatoes, sliced button mushrooms, pitted black olives, pineapple chunks, sliced marinated artichoke hearts; thinly sliced green bell pepper, thinly sliced onion, diced cherry tomatoes, sliced button mushrooms, pitted black olives, pineapple chunks, sliced marinated artichoke hearts; thinly sliced green bell pepper, thinly sliced onion, diced cherry tomatoes, sliced button mushrooms, pitted black olives, pineapple chunks, sliced marinated artichoke hearts; thinly sliced green bell pepper, thinly sliced onion, diced cherry tomatoes, sliced button mushrooms, pitted black olives, pineapple chunks, sliced marinated artichoke hearts; thinly sliced green bell pepper, thinly sliced onion, diced cherry tomatoes, sliced button mushrooms, pitted black olives, pineapple chunks, sliced marinated artichoke hearts; thinly sliced green bell pepper, thinly sliced onion, diced cherry tomatoes, sliced button mushrooms, pitted black olives, pineapple chunks, sliced marinated artichoke hearts; 1 recipe Basic Tomato Sauce or 3 cups [720 ml] store-bought sauce; 1 recipe Basic Tomato Sauce or 3 cups [720 ml] store-bought sauce

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Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Vegetarian Heartland

By Shelly Westerhausen Worcel

Published 2017

About

As a kid, my favorite restaurant, hands down, was Gino’s East in Chicago. Back then it was in a tiny space that was covered in graffiti. Everything about it was the coolest from a kid’s perspective—you got to stand in a line that wrapped around the corner because it was that exclusive, you could (and were encouraged to) write all over the walls, and you got to eat insane amounts of pizza for dinner. What more could a kid want? As an adult, I still wait in line for dinner because their deep-

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Americas
United States
Chicago
Dinner
Pizza
Vegetarian
Winter

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