Chicago Deep Dish Pizza Pie - Real Recipes from Mums

A cross between a pizza and a pie. You can put whatever toppings you choose, I have just listed my favourites!

Ingredients (makes 8 slices)

1 1/2 cup Self raising flour
1/2 cup tepid water
1 cup grated cheese
1 can diced tomatoes
1 tbs tomato paste
pizza toppings (pepperoni, sausage, ham, mushroom, capsicum, onion etc)

Method

Make up pizza dough. If you have your own recipe, feel free to use it. My 'easy midweek' dough recipe is 1 1/2 cups of flour, slowly mix in around 1/2 cup tepid water (I often use slightly more).
Roll pizza dough flat and lay into a pie dish. Pizza dough should appear like a pie dough, covering the base and the sides of the pie dish- approximately 1inch in depth.
Cover the base with tomato paste and sprinkle a small amount of cheese on top. Layer toppings. I do 1 layer of ham, I layer of polish salami or pepperoni, 1 layer of capsicum and 1 layer of mushroom and onion.
Tip in the contents of one can of diced tomatoes. Spread evenly across the top. Then coat the very top with grated cheese.
Place in 180 degree oven for 40 minutes. You need to ensure that the base is cooked all the way through , or the middle will be soggy.

Notes

I always get a lot of compliments on this! Has taken a lot of perfecting though. Make sure the base is rolled quite thin and pushed in thin around the edges of the pan.

87 Comments

- - cassy26 said
  - 27 Jul 2024
    10:55 am
Mmm Pizza AND pie great combo

- - mom111464 said
  - 08 Oct 2020
    12:53 pm
yes! this looks so drool-worthy. I will have to try this.

- - nadine_hill said
  - 04 Sep 2019
    12:24 pm
Looks amazing and I can’t wait to try it! Thanks for sharing!

- - mom112217 said
  - 31 Jul 2016
    4:02 pm
I will have all the pizza toppings listed plus olives! It look’s amazing,thanks!

- - mom93821 said
  - 07 Oct 2015
    6:42 am
Thanks for this deep dish pizza recipe!

- - P&M'smum said
  - 25 Feb 2015
    8:08 pm
Interesting recipe,thanks for sharing.

- - mom57522 said
  - 29 Jan 2015
    1:15 pm
A cross between a pizza and pie, I like that!

- - mom94125 said
  - 07 Nov 2014
    11:56 pm
i made this tonight and it was yum

- - shortaez said
  - 19 Oct 2014
    4:21 pm
Last week I tried this deep dish pizza omg yummy

- - mom94125 said
  - 12 Oct 2014
    9:44 pm
this looks so good! i love home made pizza!
thanks for posting

- - mom72215 said
  - 01 Oct 2014
    2:02 pm
So versatile. A great twist on the standard pizza for the kids.

- - love mum said
  - 30 Sep 2014
    8:52 pm
This looks really doey but i am sure that is tastes better than it looks. I love pizza’s, normally thin but hey you need to try thing
- mom93821 replied
  
  08 Oct 2015 , 6:33 am
  Love both styles – thick and thin – depends on the toppings.
- - shortaez said
  - 29 Sep 2014
    8:11 pm
Something different thank you for sharing

- - mrsdew17 said
  - 31 Aug 2014
    7:44 pm
So yum and just looks so easy to make.

- - ginoula5 said
  - 11 Aug 2014
    1:59 pm
oh wow, this is a must try, printing it out, looks so good! I have no doubt family would go crazy for it, thanks so much for sharing

- - caramello said
  - 01 Aug 2014
    12:18 am
looks good thanks for sharing

- - no1ladydj said
  - 19 Jun 2014
    12:07 am
I wonder if it would help to keep the base crisp if it were pre-baked a little before adding the toppings? Especially for someone like me, as I do tend to load the toppings on home-made pizzas, and it would spoil it if the base went soggy.

- - mom57522 said
  - 14 Jun 2014
    11:32 am
Such an easy peasy dough to make. Going to try it for lunch.

- - caramello said
  - 31 May 2014
    1:00 pm
that looks amazing, thanks for sharing

- - thejodsta said
  - 26 May 2014
    12:47 am
Looking at recipes is making me hungry this looks so good!