Chicago Style Stuffed Pizza

Name: Chicago Style Stuffed Pizza
Prep time: 1 h 50 min
Cook time: 1 h 50 min
Total time: 1 h 50 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Mediterranean, Italian, European
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon active dry yeast; 3 cloves garlic, sliced; 30 milliliters chopped green bell pepper; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 59 milliliters chopped onion; 1 teaspoon dried oregano; 59 milliliters grated Parmesan cheese; 79 milliliters diced pepperoni; 2 teaspoons salt; 113 grams spicy Italian sausage - browned, drained and crumbled; 255 grams shredded mozzarella cheese; 118 milliliters tomato sauce; 710 milliliters unbleached all-purpose flour, divided; 118 milliliters warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C); 237 milliliters warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C); 2 teaspoons white sugar; 118 milliliters yellow cornmeal

Chicago Style Stuffed Pizz From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 50 minutes. A mixture of garlic, pepperoni, spicy sausage - browned, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. To use up the yellow cornmeal you could follow this main course with the Cornmeal Cookies as a dessert. It is a rather inexpensive recipe for fans of Mediterranean food.

Instructions

To Make Dough: In a small bowl, dissolve sugar in 1 cup warm water; in a separate small bowl combine the yeast, 1/2 cup flour, and 1/2 cup warm water.

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Mix together and let rest in bowl for about 20 minutes, until foamy.

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Meanwhile, in a medium bowl mix together remaining 2 1/2 cups flour with cornmeal and salt; remove half of this mixture from bowl and stir 1 cup sugar water into bowl. When well mixed, return second half of flour/cornmeal mixture to bowl and mix all together; then stir in yeast mixture. Knead dough on a lightly floured surface until smooth and elastic, about 8 to 12 minutes.

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Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap.

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Wrap

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Let rise until doubled in volume.

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). To Make Stuffing: In a large bowl combine the sausage, mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, pepperoni, onion, bell pepper, oregano and garlic.

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Oregano

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Mix well.

Press half of the dough in the bottom and up the sides of a lightly greased deep dish pan.

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Bake crust in preheated oven for 4 minutes, then add the stuffing mixture to the bottom crust and cover with top crust; seal edges together with fingers, and trim excess. Slit top crust to allow steam to vent during baking; top with tomato sauce.

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Tomato Sauce