Beau Jo's Colorado Style Pizza

We've been making pizza almost every week. Our crust recipe is the same recipe we've been using for years.  We had everything ready for pizza night when I decided I wanted to make a Beau Jo's crust.  We ended up freezing the other pizza dough balls and made more pizzas the following week.

The recipe is adapted from a pizza making forum. https://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php?topic=18368.0  I decreased the amount of dough slightly because I didn't want mountain pie size crust.  Don't get me wrong.  I love pizza crust but I was feeling like a little piggy.  Beau Jo's is famous for the super thick crusts on their mountain pies. It's tradition to save the crust pieces and drizzle with honey. Beau Jo's leaves bottles of Colorado honey on their tables. We had our crust with Madhava honey from Lyons, Colorado.

We usually bake our pizzas on a cast iron pizza pan but for this pizza, you'll need a perforated pizza pan.  We happen to have an old one. We went ahead and left the cast iron pizza pan in the oven and placed the perforated pizza pan on cast iron pan to help it maintain the high temp.

Ingredients:
6 cups flour (all purpose or 50/50 all purpose & whole wheat)
2 - 2 1/4 cups water (heated to approximately 105 degrees)
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons honey
3 tablespoons instant yeast
1 teaspoon kosher salt
black pepper

Add all ingredients to bowl and knead with dough hook for approximately 5 minutes. Divide dough into two balls and cover.  Allow to rise 30 minutes. Roll dough 1 to 2 inches larger than pizza pan. Dock (poke holes) the dough, braid the crust, sauce, cheese, toppings.  Bake in 500 degree preheated oven. We usually preheat the oven for about an hour and bake on a cast iron pizza pan.

The crust is still pretty thick but not on Beau Jo's scale.

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The ingredients for the sauce.

This is American-style thick teriyaki sauce thickened with corn starch. 

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It was pretty good. Even with all the substitutions.

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