Faux deep dish pizza
Ok, this was an experiment based on a dish I saw on an episode of "The Best Thing I Ever Ate" on The Food Network. One of the meals was a deep dish pizza that was made in a bowl. They started by lining the bowl with cheese, added sauce and fillings, then topped the bowl with a crust. Bake it until the crust is a golden brown and tip it over on a plate to serve.
So, I started by making a batch of the sauce from the lasagna recipe I made a while back. Took a few baking dishes, lined them with a variety of cheeses (provologne in one, Sargento italian cheese mix in another, both in a third). Topped each with the sauce from the lasagna recipe (with some diced black olives added). Topped the bowls with some Pillsbury refrigerated pizza crust (see my last post about cheating, get over it). Tossed it in the oven per the crust recipe and tipped them out onto plates.
The flavor was great. the crust could definitely be improved upon, but it was more than passable. The cheese was nice and gooey. It would be nice to have some bowls that would be better shaped, some had handles, they weren't round, and there wasn't enough crust to make it further than the edge of any bowl. Sort of prevented it from being actual deep dish. But this is definitely worth doing again. The sauce simply made this dish delicious!
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