Best Ever Homemade Deep Dish Pizza!
 
 
Pizza is one of those comfort foods that just makes a person happy- and for me- I'm all about the deep-dish style pizza! Here's my favorite homemade deep dish pizza recipe!
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Ingredients
  • 2 packages of Quick Rise Yeast
  • 2 cups of warm water (around 90 degrees)
  • ½ cup of vegetable oil
  • 4 Tablespoons of olive oil
  • ½ cup cornmeal
  • 5½ cups of flour (I use unbleached)
  • pizza sauce, cheese, and toppings
Instructions
  1. Warm your mixing bowl by filling it with very warm water and then emptying it. Dissolve the 2 packets of yeast into the 2 cups of warm water and wait for a few minutes to allow the yeast to become active. (see the bubbles in the middle? That’s how you’ll know it’s working…)
  2. Add the oils, cornmeal, and 3 cups of the flour, and beat it with the paddle attachment of your mixer for 10 minutes. The dough will be silky and sticky.
  3. Add the remaining 2½ cups of flour and switch to the dough hook attachment for your mixer. Knead for several minutes until all of the flour is incorporated. Remove your dough from the bowl, and then add a bit of vegetable oil to the mixing bowl. Using a paper towel, coat the sides of mixing bowl with the vegetable oil and then return the dough to the bowl to rise.
  4. Cover with a towel and put in a warm, draft-free location to rise for about 60-90 minutes.
  5. Using your fingers, poke at the center of the dough to cause it to fall, and then re-cover and allow it to rise again for another 60-90 minutes.
  6. This recipe will make 2 9×13 pizzas. I divide the dough in ½ and pat it into place in my two metal baking pans. t this point you can add on your favorite pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella, and toppings. If you were making a true “Garcia’s Flying Tomato” pizza, you would take canned plum tomatoes and squish them up in your hands, adding basil, oregano, garlic, salt, and a dash of sugar to make your thick and chunky sauce. But since my kids are highly against chunky pizza sauce…. I just go with canned pizza sauce.
  7. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes until the toppings are golden brown and bubbly. You would almost rather undertake this pizza a bit than over bake it. The inside of the crust (where it meet the sauce) should be a bit gooey. That’s one of the things that makes it oh-so-delicious!
Recipe by MomOf6 at https://www.momof6.com/food-kids-will-eat/best-ever-homemade-deep-dish-pizza/