Description
This is a Detroit Style inspired Greek Pizza that has the comfort of a deep dish and all the big flavors of a Greek Pizza. The Walnut Olive pesto is tasty and adds something really special to this pizza recipe.
Ingredients
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For Pizza:
- 200 grams luke warm water
- 2 grams sugar
- 1 grams salt
- 3 grams Dry Instant Yeast
- 65 grams canola oil + 1 tablespoon to oil pan
- 350 grams bread flour
- 1 cup crumbled feta cheese
- ½ medium red onion, thinly sliced
- 14 Ojunce can delicate baby artichoke hearts, chopped
For Pesto:
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½ cup walnuts, whole
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10 big Spanish olives
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½ parmesan cheese, grated
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½ cup olive oil
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2 cups spinach
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2 garlic cloves
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½ teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Mix salt, sugar, and water in large bowl
- Sprinkle yeast on top and let sit for 5 minutes
- Add 65 grams of oil
- Slowly mix in Bread Dough until it is all mixed
- Put in Mixer with Bread Hook on low for two minutes or knead by hand for 5 minutes
- Put in oven with oven light on for 2 hours to let dough rise. If it is cooler in your house, also add a separate container of hot water to sit in oven along side dough
- Allow sauce to simmer for 30 minutes and set aside.
- After two hours, add remaining oil to Detroit Pizza Pan and spread all around
- Stretch dough to cover bottom of pan
- Put Pan back into the oven with the light on for another 30 minutes to allow it to rise
- Once 30 minutes has passed, remove pizza and preheat to 500° Farenheight, making sure one rack is on bottom space.
- Press out any large bubbles from the dough and make sure dough covers bottom. Stretch out, as necessary.
- Spread Pesto evenly across pizza and top with artichoke hearts, onions, and feta
- Once preheated, add pizza to bottom rack for 15-17 minutes. Watch to make sure it doesn’t burn, but you do want a nice golden brown crust with darker edges.
- Remove and rest for 5 minutes
- First, use knife to release crust on all sided. Then, use spatulas to remove entire pizza and put on cutting board.
- Use pizza cutter to cut into 6 pieces.