Meaty Deep Dish Pizza

Tonight I was thinking PIZZA! Its the weekend, me and my husband had some episodes of Master Chef to catch up on.. so whats better than pizza?!

As you can see in this picture.. there was some dough hanging over the edges.. I cut it off.

This is what it looked like cut off so I decided to fold it down so the pie would look prettier.

Ready for the oven!

All popped out of the pan and ready for devouring. 

Sooooooooooo good!

I was worried that it was going to be soggy once I cut into it but that liquid was the only bit that was in there.. it was not soggy at all I promise.. it was amazing.

I had some spring form pans that I hadn't used yet, and thought it would be a great recipe to test them out with. So... lets get to the good stuff shall we? ☺

Ingredients for Dough:

• 1 (.25 oz package) of active dry yeast
• 1 tsp white sugar
• 1 cup warm water 
• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1-2 tsp Italian seasoning
• 2 Tbsp olive oil

Instructions:

1. What I did was put the yeast, warm water and sugar in my kitchen aid mixing bowl. I stirred it a couple times just to get it started and let it sit for about 10 minutes. 
2. While I was waiting for that I mixed up the flour, salt, garlic powder, onion powder, and Italian seasoning together in a bowl. 
3. Once the yest was ready I turned on the mixer and slowly added the flour mixture little by little. Eventually it will all clump together and then you will want to knead it a little bit on a flowered surface.
4. Place it back in the mixing bowl and pour your olive oil over top and cover it while you are preparing the rest of your pizza stuff.

Ingredients for the rest of pizza ☺:

• 12 oz. pack of bacon (I just get the BAR S brand.. its cheap and tastes great)
• 1 pound of ground beef (lean or regular whatever works because you have to drain off the fat anyways)
• Pepperoni.. duh.. its pizza
• 4-5 cups of shredded mozzarella cheese
• tomato sauce

(optional)

• seasonings (garlic and onion powder, Italian seasoning,)
• 2 tsp sugar

Instructions:

1. Cook bacon (try not to eat).. set aside.
2. Cook ground beef, drain off the fat, set aside.
3. Mix together your tomato sauce with whatever seasonings you like. If its just plain tomato sauce I usually add a little garlic and onion powder and maybe a little Italian seasoning. I also add about 2 tsp of sugar.
4. Now comes the fun part. So, your dough should have been sitting this whole time that you have been making all your delicious meaty toppings. Now you are going to want to punch it down (your dough... not the meat) and roll it out into a circle. Spray your spring form pan (or any circle pan) with some non stick spray. Place your dough in, making sure that its up along the edges.
5. Finally comes the layering of deliciousness! I started off with a layer of the tomato sauce, then the ground beef, then the bacon, then pepperoni, and last but not last.. the cheese. I did this about 3 times before I ran out of ingredients. Now if you are imperfect.. like myself.. the dough along the top of the pan was not even.. so I cut it off along the edge of the top of the spring form pan. There was still a good half inch before the ingredients reached the top of the dough so I folded it over (as you can see in the picture)
6. I baked the pizza in the oven at 350° for about 20-25 minutes

This turned out amazing and even though our sides were splitting we were still eating it. 

I hope you like it too ENJOY! And thanks for reading!