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Slices of Detroit style thick crust pan pizza
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4 from 2 votes

Deep Dish Pizza

This deep dish pan pizza recipe is super simple and tastes amazing! The 4 ingredient crust is a breeze to stir together and ends up thick, chewy and delicious.
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time40 minutes
Rising Time8 hours
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Pizza
Keyword: Pizza

Ingredients

  • 3 cups All Purpose Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Yeast
  • 1.5 cups Warm Water
  • 1 teaspoon Salt
  • 2/3 cup Pizza Sauce
  • 8-10 oz Grated Mozzarella (can use a little cheddar and parm as well)
  • 24 slices Pepperoni

Optional, for Preheating Pan

  • 2 tbsp Oil

Instructions

  • The night before you'd like to serve pizza (or the morning before), mix up the pizza dough. Stir together the flour, yeast, water, and salt in a medium bowl. Mixture will look shaggy and a little dry. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and leave dough out on counter to rise for 8-24 hours.
  • About an hour before you'd like to serve the pizza, move an oven rack to the lowest position and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
  • Optional: for a crunchy crust, place 2 tbsp oil in the bottom of a 9x13 pan (glass works best). When the oven is almost at 400, place the baking dish in the oven for 5 minutes to heat.
  • Remove 9x13 pan from oven. (OR, if skipping the step to make crust crunchy, lightly grease a 9x13 pan.) Using a spatula or scraper, pour the pizza dough into the 9x13 pan. Lightly grease your hands and use your fingers to stretch the dough out until it mostly covers the bottom of the pan. If the pan has been in the oven, be careful not to touch it as it will be hot.
  • Spread pizza sauce on top of the dough, all the way to the edges. Sprinkle cheese on top of the sauce, all the way to the edges. Top with pepperoni and a little more cheese if desired.
  • Spray a piece of foil with nonstick spray and use it to cover the baking dish. Place dish in oven and bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake for 5-10 more minutes, until bottom crust of pizza and cheese is lightly browned.
  • Remove from oven and allow pizza to rest about 10 minutes before removing from pan and slicing into squares.

Notes

I tried this recipe with both a glass (pyrex) 9x13 dish and a metal 9x13 pan. Both worked fine, but the pizza rises a bit higher in the glass dish.