Chicago-Style Deep-Dish Pizza
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2010, America's Test Kitchen TV
Deep-dish pizza was born in Chicago, where it boasts a distinctively rich, flaky, biscuit-like crust. The problem? No pizzeria in Chicago would tell us how to make it.
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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
We had to discover the secrets to achieving the perfect crust—an airy, flaky inside, a lightly crisp outside, and a rich taste that could hold its own under any topping—before we could claim that our Chicago-style deep-dish pizza recipe was...