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This easy to make vegan deep dish pizza is the perfect comfort food on weekends! The recipe is gluten-free and plant-based. You can use your favorite veggies for this yummy pizza pie!
I am sure you know how much I love pizza. Yes, I adore it! That’s why I always get so excited when I create a new pizza recipe. This deep dish pizza is a crowd-pleaser for sure. You can make the recipe with a regular (wheat flour) dough, but for all of you who are gluten-free (and vegan), you have to try out this recipe!
Healthy Pizza
Healthy PizzaYou might ask why I am sharing this vegan deep dish pizza recipe with you. Well, I like veggies, mushrooms, and vegan cheese. You can fill up a deep dish pizza with lots and lots of veggies… So yeah, it’s actually a pretty healthy “pizza casserole” because of all the veggies, right. And I want you all to try out healthy-ish recipes. Isn’t it amazing when you can say: “I just ate a healthy pizza with tons of veggies and it actually tasted amazing”.
Filling For This Vegan Chicago Style Pizza
Filling For This Vegan Chicago Style PizzaI chose spinach, peppers, mushrooms, corn, onion, tomato sauce, and vegan cheese as the filling. However, you can choose any toppings which you like for this deep dish pizza, for example, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, chickpeas and so much more.
Gluten-Free Pizza Dough
Gluten-Free Pizza DoughI created a new gluten-free pizza dough with chickpea flour, rice flour, and tapioca flour and actually like it A LOT! If you don’t already have a (store-bought) gluten-free flour mix at home, you should give this flour mix a try.
If you don’t care whether the pizza dough is gluten-free or not, then you can also make regular pizza dough with wheat flour or spelt flour. The deep dish pizza will be most likely thicker and fluffier.
Additional Dough Layer
Additional Dough LayerPlease note that this vegan deep dish pizza won’t stay nicely in shape when you cut into it because there is a lot of filling. I have made this recipe once with an additional layer of dough in between and this fixed the problem.
To make this, simply divide the dough into 2 parts, one being 2/3 of the size of the other one. Spread the larger rolled out dough into the pan/springform and use the smaller rolled out dough as an additional layer in between the veggies!
This Deep Dish Pizza Is:
This Deep Dish Pizza Is:- Vegan (dairy-free, egg-free)
- Gluten-free
- Crispy
- Gum-free
- Healthy
- Easy to make
- Versatile
Vegan Cheese Sauce
Vegan Cheese SauceI used my easy vegan cheese sauce recipe, however, you can use any vegan cheese of choice, whether its vegan mozzarella or vegan cheddar cheese, it’s your choice.
Crowd-Pleaser
Crowd-PleaserI made this vegan deep dish pizza a couple of times for friends and everyone loved it! It’s so much fun to get creative and try out new things with simple pizza dough. The recipe is easy to make because you just need a pizza dough and your favorite veggies.
Should you recreate this Chicago Style Pizza, please leave a comment below and don’t forget to tag me in your Instagram or Facebook post with @elavegan and #elavegan because I love to see your recreations.
Vegan Deep Dish Pizza
Author: Michaela Vais
This easy to make vegan deep dish pizza is the perfect comfort food on weekends! The recipe is gluten-free and plant-based. You can use your favorite veggies for this yummy pizza pie!
5 from 6 votes
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Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 30 minutes mins
Chill time 1 hour hr
Total Time 1 hour hr 45 minutes mins
Course Main Course, Pizza
Cuisine American
Servings 4
Calories 402 kcal
Ingredients
Pizza dough:
- 240 g gluten-free flour mix (*see recipe notes)
- 1 tbsp psyllium husk powder
- 1/3 tsp sea salt
- 200 ml plant-based milk
- 20 g fresh yeast (*see recipe notes)
- 1/2 tbsp maple syrup or 2 tsp sugar
- 2 tsp olive oil
Filling:
- 5 oz (140 g) fresh baby spinach
- 2 peppers (I used green ones), chopped
- 1 onion chopped
- 1 cup (75 g) mushrooms sliced
- 2/3 cup (120 g) corn
- 1/2 cup (120 g) tomato sauce
- 1 batch vegan cheese (or vegan cheese of choice)
- sea salt, black pepper, and Italian spice mix to taste
- red pepper flakes (optional)
Instructions
Make the pizza dough
Heat the plant-based milk in a saucepan for a few seconds until it's lukewarm (not hot!) about 35-40 degrees C (95-104 degrees F). Add yeast, sugar, and olive oil and set aside for about 10 minutes to proof the yeast. If it starts to get frothy, then the yeast is still active and usable.
Combine all dry ingredients (flour, psyllium husk powder, sea salt) in a bowl and stir with a whisk.
Add the yeast mixture and stir with a wooden spoon. It might seem too wet in the first few seconds but that will change within a minute. Knead the dough for about 5 minutes with your hands (it will be sticky, that's ok), form a dough ball and set aside (preferably in a warm place) for about 60 minutes. It should almost double in size.
Once the dough has risen, place it on a floured surface, and roll it out with a rolling pin about 0.6-0.8 cm thick. It should have a diameter of about 30 cm (12 inches).
Preheat oven to 200 degrees C (390 degrees F).
Line an 8-inch springform with parchment paper or grease it with some oil. Carefully place the dough into the springform. It should look like this. Let it rest again for about 10 minutes.
Pre-bake the dough for around 10 minutes. Meanwhile, you can chop the veggies.
Make the filling
Saute veggies and mushrooms in a skillet with a little oil over medium heat for about 5 minutes. Add salt, pepper, and Italian spices to taste. You can also add red pepper flakes if you like it spicy.
Make a batch of my easy vegan cheese sauce and spread half of it onto the pre-baked pizza dough. You can use any other vegan cheese of choice instead.
Then add a layer of the fried veggies.
Add the tomato sauce.
Also, add more vegan cheese (sauce). Place the pizza back in the oven for another 20 minutes.
Enjoy with fresh herbs of choice. PS: Please note that this vegan deep dish pizza won't stay nicely in shape when you cut into it because it has a lot of filling. Read the recipe notes below for a solution.
Notes
- You can use 1 1/2 tsp instant dry yeast instead of fresh yeast.
- I have made this recipe once with an additional layer of dough in between. This will help the pizza to stay in shape when you cut into it. To make this, simply divide the dough into 2 parts, one being 2/3 of the size of the other one. Spread the larger rolled out dough into the pan/springform and use the smaller rolled out dough as an additional layer in between the veggies!
- I had the BEST result with the following homemade gluten-free flour mix:
- 120 g white rice flour (3/4 cup)
- 60 g chickpea flour (1/2 cup)
- 60 g tapioca flour (1/2 cup)
- Recipe serves 4. Nutrition facts are for one serving.
Nutrition Facts Vegan Deep Dish Pizza Amount per Serving Calories 402 % Daily Value* Fat 14 g 22 % Carbohydrates 65 g 22 % Fiber 13 g 52 % Sugar 11 g 12 % Protein 13 g 26 % * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition information is an estimate and has been calculated automatically
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