Cast Iron Personal Pan Pizza

 

First off, I've got to take a better picture and get the color balance correct.

My sister in law, Kim, says that I make the best pizza she has ever tasted.  

Well Kim, this is the next level pizza.  Got this recipe from the YouTube channel, America's Test Kitchen.

Ingredients

11 oz bread flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp instant yeast, or could be called rapid rise yeast
8 oz water
3 tbsp olive oil or Crisco lard

Pam cooking spray

Stuff you will need

2 Mixing bowls

Wooden spoon

Cast Iron Skillet

Plastic Wrap

Directions

Make sure the water is between 105 and 110 F.

Add all the dry ingredients before adding the water.

This dough is going to be very hydrated.  So you don't need a stand mixer for this. Just a wooden mixing spoon.

When the dough comes together, knead the dough, right in the bowl.

Transfer to a previously sprayed (Pam cooking spray) mixing bowl.

Flatten out the dough and more cooking spray on top of the dough.

Cover that pan with plastic wrap.

Leave in the fridge for 12 to 24 hours.

Take out of the fridge, about 30 min so that the dough can come up to room temperature.

Grease up the cast iron skillet.  Or about 3 tbsp of olive oil.  Put some grease/oil on your "working hand".

Transfer the dough to the skillet and push the dough out towards the sides.

Let the dough sit in the pan for about 90 minutes.

Heat up the oven to 400 F,

Put your toppings on the pizza.

Bake, 30 minutes in the oven.

Let the pizza sit in the pan for about 3 to 5 minutes.

If it hasn't browned as much as you like, turn the burner on medium and cook for another 5 minutes.

Let the pizza rest for 10 minutes.

When you are cutting the pizza, start from the middle and cut towards the edge.

Comments and suggestions are ALWAYS welcome.