Deep Dish Pizza

Well, I tried the deep dish pizza today and it tasted great, but didn't look real good. Here is the recipe and a few pictures.

Pizza Crust

1 cup water
1/4 cup shortening
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 pkg active dry yeast
3/4 cup yellow cornmeal
3 cups Heartland's Finest Performance Blend Gluten Free Flour

Heat 1 cup of water, shortening, sugar and salt until shortening melts. Cool to lukewarm. Soften yeast in 1/2 cup of lukewarm water. Combine yeast and shortening mixtures in large bowl. Add cornmeal and flour to shortening mix and knead until smooth and workable. Oil pizza pan with olive oil and sprinkle with cornmeal. Press dough into pans and pierce with a fork several times. Bake in 425 degree preheated oven for 7 minutes. Remove, then add pizza toppings.

Here's how I did my toppings.

1 3 oz pkg Pepperoni
8 oz Italian Sausage
8 strips Bacon

I first layered the bottom crust with 12 oz pizza sauce, then layered pepperoni like in this photo.


After that I added a layer of Sharp Cheddar, a layer of Mozzarella Cheese, 12 oz Pizza sauce then a mixture of the sausage and bacon like in this photo.

I added a layer of each kind of cheese then put the pizza back in the oven for another 30 minutes. The pan I used was a 9 in x 2 3/4 in springform pan. Also, I didn't use the whole crust recipe because I'm not a huge crust fan so yours will come out looking a bit different than this. Here's what it looked like when it came out of the oven.

I will warn you though, it doesn't look real great on the plate, but it tastes amazing!