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Chicago 01

Chicago 01 comes together with Warm Water, Quick Yeast, Sugar, Salt, and Ground Pepper. Keep it handy for the next time you cook it.

Illustrative photo

Ingredients

• 1 cup
• 2
• 2
• 1
• 1 tbsp
• 3 tbsp
• 8 oz

Method (preview)

1. 1

   Mix sugar, yeast and water in a big bowl with a whisk.

2. 2

   Set aside 10 minutes.

3. 3

   Sift flour and salt together into a big bowl, then sprinkle the thyme in.

4. 4

   After the foamed yeast starts working really well, mix in the whole eggs and oil into the yeast mixture with a whisk.

5. 5

   Pour half the liquid into the flour mixture and mix fully.

6. 6

   Pour 1/8 more into the flour and mix more.

7. 7

   Keep pouring a little more liquid into the dough until it is soft and sticky.

8. 8

   Sift a little flour into the bowl and use your hand to start kneading the flour for 5 minutes (adding flour as necessary to keep the skin of the dough from being sticky).

9. 9

   Place into a well-oiled bowl Cover and set into unlit oven for 2-3 hours.

10. 10

    Mash the minced, fresh garlic into a paste (mortar & pestle work well), or crush some garlic with a garlic smasher.

11. 11

    Heat a large skillet on high heat for 3 minutes.

12. 12

    Place oil and garlic quickly into the hot pan and saute for a few seconds (until you smell garlic).

13. 13

    Then pour the tomatoes into the pan and mix it up.

14. 14

    Mix in the salt, dried basil (not the fresh) and pepper.

15. 15

    Simmer down (crush with a fork or potato masher any chunks of tomatoes) until it is sorta pasty (a non-stick pan works well to simmer the tomato sauce down).

16. 16

    Set aside.

17. 17

    If using fresh basil, cut and mix into sauce the last 5 minutes of the cooking.

18. 18

    Quickly place the pizza in the upper part of the HOT oven (no top heat source) and cook.

19. 19

    Depending on your pan type, cook the pizza for 13-18 minutes.

20. 20

    Pull the pizza out, remove from pan and place on a cooling rack.

21. 21

    Put the pan back in the oven to cool off with the oven (so it doesn't warp).

22. 22

    Spray olive oil spray on the outer crust and let cool for 6 minutes.