Next time a craving for pizza takes over skip the local pizza place, forget the boxed cardboard frozen stuff and make your own! Thick crust that is loaded with toppings, cheese and tomatoes. Baked to gooey perfection.
Course Main Dish
Cuisine Pizza, Pork
Keyword pizza, pork
Servings 8slices
Ingredients
Deep Dish Crust
1cupwarm water90 degrees
1pkgactive dry yeast
1tsphoney
2cupflour
1/2cupcornmeal
1tspsalt
2 tspolive oil
2Tbsbuttermelted to brush over crust
Sausage Filling
1/2poundItalian sausage
1/2poundground hamburger
1smallyellow onionchopped
3garlic cloveschopped
1smallgreen pepperchopped
3Tbstomato paste, Italian season
8ouncesliced mushrooms
2.25ouncesblack olives
1Tbssugar
1Tbsitalian herbs
8ouncesshredded italian cheesehalved
14.5ouncesdiced tomatoes, italian styledrained very well
Instructions
Deep Dish Crust
Mix yeast, water & honey together. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let sit for 10 minutes. Add flour, honey & salt to the yeast mixture. Stir with a spatula then complete by hand. After it has formed a ball cover with 2 tsp. of olive oil. Put a towel over the bowl and let rise for 15-20 minutes.
Once the dough has risen uncover and place on a floured surface. Roll with a rolling pin to almost double the size of your pan so there is plenty to go around the deep edges of a greased springform pan. Place the dough into the pan cinching edges as not to overlap over the top of the pan. Brush crust with 2 Tbs. melted butter all over then place in a preheated 375 degree oven to bake for 8-10 minutes.
Sausage Filling
Brown sausage and hamburger. Add onions, green peppers, olives, mushroom and garlic. Cook all together the meat is cooked through and the vegetables are soft.
Add in tomato paste, Italian herbs and sugar. Take off heat. Add to pizza in a thick layer.
Take crust out of oven. Load with layers like this:
-1/2 Cheese
-Filling
-Remaining Cheese
-Drained tomatoes
Once all your layers are on place in your oven that is already preheated at 375 degrees.