Deep Dish Pizza Dough

I have a thin crust pizza dough recipe here, but deep dish needs something with a little more oomph. This one is easy to make and you can modify it by adding different herbs or spices as you wish. I used it to make this pizza, and my was it tasty!

Deep Dish Pizza Dough (serves 4)

1/2 Tbls. sugar
1/2 cup warm water (plus more if needed)
2 tsp. active dry yeast
1 Tbls. cold vegan butter, cut into chunks
1 1/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. wheat gluten

In a small bowl dissolve the sugar in the water. Stir in the yeast and let sit for a few minutes, until foamy and bubbly.

In a large bowl combine the remaining ingredients with a fork to incorporate the butter.

Add in the yeast mixture with a fork, then switch to kneading. Add more water if needed to help the dough stick together and knead for 5 minutes. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 20 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 375 F. Flour your work surface and roll out the dough into a circle about a foot in diameter. Grease and flour a 9" pie pan and carefully place the dough into the pan, pressing down at the bottom and around the edges. If needbe, tear off any outlying pieces of dough to fill in gaps along the sides.

Bake the dough for 5 minutes before topping.