Deep Pan Pizza

Source: Kenji - https://www.seriouseats.com/foolproof-pan-pizza-recipe

Recipe scaled to 9" square heavy cake tin

• 260g strong bread flour
• 7g salt
• 3g instant yeast
• 181g water
• 5g olive oil
• 1 cups pizza sauce
• 225g pizza mozzarella (dry, full-fat)
• Toppings as desired
• basil leaves (optional)
• 40g parmesan (optional)
  

1. flour, salt, yeast, water, oil in a large bowl. Mix with wooden spoon handle until uniform and no flour remains
2. Cover, leave at room temperature for 8-24 hours (only 2g yeast if >10, and not 24 if room is hot)
3. 2 tbsp oil into bottom of cake pan, place dough in and coat in oil. Using a flat palm, press dough around the pan, flattening it towards the edges.
4. Cover tightly and leave for 2 hours
5. With 20-30 mins to go, oven to as close to 290C as possible (experiment with using the oven bottom heater also)
6. Baking stone middle shelf?
7. press dough with fingertips into edges, pop any large bubbles
8. Pizza sauce all over, including edges
9. Basil on sauce, if you want
10. Cheese all over, and into edges
11. Salt, oil, toppings
12. Bake middle shelf until top is done, try 13 minutes
13. Parmesan on top, if you want
14. Pan onto hob to crisp up the bottom if needed (maybe? See if baking stone fixes)