Baking Deep Dish Pizza. Stir the crust ingredients together to form a slightly sticky soft dough. Bake for 35-45 minutes or until the crust is a dark golden brown.
Grease or oil with olive oil a 14-diameter deep-dish pizza pan or a 9 x 13 pan. Place the dough in the pan and let it rest for 10 to 15 minutes then pat and stretch it to cover the bottom of the pan. Take out plate careful plate may be hot and then let pizza rest for one minute.
Remove from oven and serve immediately.
Jeff melts butter over the stove before adding it to the bottom of a true Chicago deep-dish-pizza pan he assures a cake pan will also suffice. Preheat oven to 425F. Position pizza on center rack in oven and bake for 15-18 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 165F. For a deep-dish pizza around 425F is right and so is 2030 minutes.