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Chicago tavern-style thin crust pizza with sausage, pepperoncini and hot honey

SAM THE COOKING GUY · ♥ 9.1K likes · 207.2K views · 14 min video

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Ingredients
Method
Techniques
  • regular everyday all-purpose flour
  • sugar
  • salt
  • instant yeast
  • oregano
  • garlic powder
In a food processor combine all-purpose flour, sugar, salt, instant yeast, a little oregano and a little garlic powder; pulse.
Dry ingredients in the processor
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 6 oz warm water
Add one tablespoon of olive oil and six ounces of warm water and process until the dough clumps and runs around the bowl.
  • flour
Turn onto a floured surface, flour the top and knead 30 to 45 seconds until smooth; shape into a ball.
Put in a ziplock bag, leave out for an hour, then refrigerate 24 hours (up to 48).
Cold rest in the fridge
  • 15 oz crushed tomatoes
  • olive oil
  • squeezed garlic
  • red pepper flake
  • oregano
  • salt and pepper
  • sugar
Make the uncooked sauce: mix 15 ounces of crushed tomatoes with olive oil, squeezed garlic, red pepper flake, oregano, a little salt and pepper, and a little sugar to counter the acid.
One-minute uncooked sauce
Take half the dough onto a floured surface, bring the edges together over the top and pinch underneath into a tight ball; set in a bowl covered with Saran at room temperature for a couple of hours, until doubled.
Flour the top and roll with a floured roller, turning between passes, to a very thin 12 inch round.
  • semolina flour
Dust the building surface with semolina flour and move the dough onto it; check it slides.
Rolling out paper thin
  • good parm
  • ⅓ cup mozzarella
  • Italian sausage
  • pepperoncinis
  • roasted red peppers
  • kosher salt
Spread sauce almost to the edge without overloading, keeping it off the board; add a little parm, about a third of a cup of shredded mozzarella, small balls of Italian sausage to the edges, pepperoncinis, roasted red peppers and a little kosher salt.
Bake on a pizza stone near the top of a 550 degree oven, preheated 45 minutes to an hour, for about 12 minutes until super crispy.
  • hot honey
Finish with a little hot honey and cut bar style into squares.
Hot honey and the bar-style cut