Chicago deep dish pizza9/25/2023 ![]() The dough should be stretched out enough to go ALL THE WAY UP the sides of the pan (about 3 inches high) so that it can hold all of the pizza’s contents and truly be deep dish.įor a healthier dough option, check out the almond flour dough used in low carb pizza. It’s really important to make sure that your dough is flattened out in a circle large enough to fill the bottom and up the sides of your baking pan. You’ll want a large flat surface like a baking mat, and a rolling pin will be helpful to flatten out the dough. The hardest part is stretching it out in a large circle. The dough is simple to prepare and quite easy to handle with your hands. Regarding the dough, I adapted a pizza crust recipe from King Arthur Flour. If you want to double the recipe, you can use two 9 inch pans or one 14 inch pan. It’s easy and effortless to slide out the pizza, and even more so if you use a springform pan. As the pizza bakes, it will shrink a bit from the sides and it does not stick to the bottom. Nonstick is good, but you don’t have to worry about the pizza sticking to the pan. Personally, I used a springform pan, which was perfect for this pizza. I recommend using any round 9 inch baking pan that is at least 3 inches tall. ![]() You may use a cake pan, but usually cake pans have low sides about 1.5 inches tall and that’s too low for a deep dish pizza. You’ll want to use a 9 inch diameter round baking pan with high sides. Let’s talk about the recipe and specifically about the pan. It tasted great, but I thought to myself that I couldn’t keep ordering from them - so next time I’d have to make my own. And that’s what brings me to this recipe. The pizza restaurant I ordered from was Lou Malnati’s (not as good as Giordano’s but I’ll take what I can get) and they sent me a partially baked frozen pizza with dry ice and plenty of instructions. ? Yes, you read that right! I ordered pizza delivery from Chicago to Boston, which is a distance of about 850 miles or 1370 km. One time my cravings got so bad that I ordered pizza delivery from Chicago. On average, I probably had deep dish pizza once a week while living in Chicago!Īfter departing Chicago, I lived on both the west coast and (currently) east coast, and there aren’t any deep dish eateries on either coast that come even close to Chicago-style deep dish pizza. The pizza is so deep that it’s essentially a savory pie and one slice is pretty much an entire meal for one person. Whenever I had out-of-town family and friends visiting, a must-see (must-eat?) was Giordano’s for their spinach pizza. There are a bunch of deep dish pizza restaurants in Chicago, and my favorite one is Giordano’s. I had never enjoyed proper deep dish pizza prior to arriving in Chicago, and it quickly became my favorite kind of pizza. However, you can make any sort of deep dish pizza you like in your crockpot.I lived in Chicago for 4 years and one of my favorite things about this city was the DEEP DISH PIZZA. I am in love with this Chicago Style Slow Cooker Deep Dish Pizza. ![]() (You wouldn’t believe how many friends and readers tell me they have 3-4 crockpots at home.) Plus, if you have several crockpots you can make multiple varieties at once. Like with most crockpot recipes, you can prep the pizza in the morning and come home to a tantalizing dinner, ready and waiting for you. Set out toppings and let the kids go crazy! They’ll have fun stretching the dough and piling on the cheese, right in the crockpot.Ĭome home to a finished dinner. It’s a great kids cooking project. Gone are your concerns of singed fingers. Cooking the crust low and slow gives it a fabulous pillowy texture on the inside, yet it still crisps up on the outside. If you have an affinity for leaving things in the oven too long, this recipe is for you! Leave the house for a few hours without fear.Ĭrockpot cooking saves energy. It also keeps your house cool. I mean, you really have to try to burn it. Why You Should Make Slow Cooker Deep Dish Pizza You might be wondering, “Why would I make pizza in a slow cooker when I could just pop it in the oven?” ![]() Since I had made bread in the crockpot before, I knew what wonderful things low heat could do to yeasty dough. This had to work.Īs you can see in the photos, my efforts in making a Slow Cooker Deep Dish Pizza Recipe were a huge success. Instead of pulling out cake pans, I lifted my slow cookers onto the counter. Suddenly I stopped in my tracks… Could Deep Dish Pizza be made in the crockpot?!? I secretly consider it a personal challenge.Ī few weeks ago I was craving Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza in a major way, so I started rummaging through my cabinets to find the right sized pans to make it. I have a strange fondness of making out of the ordinary dishes in the crockpot. That’ right, Chicago style pizza made in the crockpot. Unbelievable Slow Cooker Deep Dish Pizza.
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