Ingredients for Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza Crust

Series Summary

Chicago style deep dish pizza was invented in 1943 at Pizzeria Uno in Chicago, Illinois. Resembling a casserole or lasagna more than traditional pizza, the Chicago style deep dish pizza begins with a layer of dough in a deep pan with the dough covering the bottom and sides of the pan. The deep dish pizza dough is then par-baked and toppings are added to fill the dough. Traditionally, the mozzarella is added as the bottom layer of a deep dish, then covered with meats and vegetables. Finally, a chunky tomato sauce covers the top of a Chicago deep dish pizza. Usually eaten with a knife and fork, deep dish pizza is more of a meal than New York style pizza and frequently contains about a pound of gooey cheese.

In this free video series, our expert chef will demonstrate how to make your own Chicago style deep dish pizza. You will get step-by-step instructions on how to make the dough, prepare the ingredients and put together everything for this Chicago style deep dish pizza recipe. The great thing about this free recipe is that you can customize the ingredients in any way you like. Add more meat, add more vegetables, whatever you want you can have in your own home made pizza crust. This is a fun meal for kids, and is a great variation of classic pizza.

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Chef Issac from Cuisine by Issac on behalf of Expert Village. Today we are going to assemble the ingredients for Chicago deep dish pizza. We are going to start with the dry ingredients. First we start with some sugar, cornmeal, salt, flour, and baking powder. Baking powder or yeast we are going to in this ingredient we are going to use the baking powder because the yeast takes a little longer to proof and get ready. The wet ingredients will be water and shorten and olive oil. Utensils you have a knife, a fork, spoon, and a rolling pin. "