Just like Lou's Chicago deep dish pizza

Name: Just like Lou's Chicago deep dish pizza
Total time: 8400 s
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 1/4 cup all-purpose flour; 1/2 cup cornmeal; 1 1/2 tbsp salt; 2 tsp sugar; 1 tbsp yeast; 1 1/4 cup warm water; 1/2 cup olive oil; 2 cup mozzarella cheese; 2 cup pepperoni, veggies, other as desired; 1 can drained diced italian tomatoes; 1/4 cup parmesan cheese

kate @cook_3478240

Ordered Lou Malnatis pizza for our son's 10th birthday. Had it shipped in and baked it off. Craved it ever since! Found this recipe online and tweaked it a but. Even used it for one of our pizzas for our World of pizzas Christmas feast one year.

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Ingredients

2 hours 20 mins

4 servings

crust
3 1/4 cupall-purpose flour
1/2 cupcornmeal
1 1/2 tbspsalt
2 tspsugar
1 tbspyeast
1 1/4 cupwarm water
1/2 cupolive oil
pizza toppings
2 cupmozzarella cheese
2 cuppepperoni, veggies, other as desired
1 candrained diced italian tomatoes
1/4 cupparmesan cheese

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Steps

2 hours 20 mins

1

Proof yeast in water. Add sugar, and rest of the crust ingredients. Mix well and knead until well combined and elastic.
2

Let dough rise 1 1/2 hours to 3 hours. Punch down dough. Dived into two.
3

Pat each dough into rounds and press into preheated, well buttered cast iron pans.
4

Sprinkle on toppings, in order given, with cheese on dough and tomatoes last. Sprinkle parmesan cheese on top of everything and bake on the bottom rack at 375 for 30 min.
5

Let the pizzas rest for 5 min. Slice and serve. This tastes just like Lou Malnati's in Chicago! Light yet hearty and flavorful crust!