Cast Iron Deep Dish Pizza

Directions

Make the pizza dough. While it’s rising, start browning and seasoning the ground beef to your liking, brown the sausage and preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Coat the entire inside of the cast iron skillet with butter. Place the pizza dough in the pan, making sure to go up the sides of the skillet with the dough. Using a fork, poke holes in the dough to help it not rise when you pre-cook it.

Cook the dough in a 400 degree oven for 5-8 minutes.

Take the dough out of the oven and place the mozzarella cheese slices in the pan completely covering the bottom of the pan. This helps to keep the crust crunchy. Next, spread the hamburger evenly over the cheese. Add some shredded mozzarella cheese next and top it with some pizza sauce. The sausage is spread out next with more mozzarella cheese on top of it. You can add more sauce if you like it saucy. Don’t worry if your ingredients are slightly over the top of the pan, it will reduce in height as it cooks.

Melt some butter and spread it anywhere you can see the dough. Place in the oven for about 10 minutes or until the dough starts to get golden brown. You can turn on the broiler at this point if you want the cheese done more.

This is the hardest part of the recipe. After pulling the pizza from the oven, let it sit for 5 minutes before slicing. Enjoy!