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Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza With Spicy Sauce

August 8, 2016 By Carrots and Flowers

Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza | Made with easy homemade cashew mozzarella and spicy sauce | Ready in 1 hour | Cheesy, saucy, delicious!

Mmm.. Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza.. It’s like a pizza and a pie all in one! I really love eating pie so I am basically obsessed with this Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza. The crust is thick and hearty. The sauce is chunky and spicy. The vegan mozzarella is melty and gooey. It is everything a pizza should be, you won’t even be able to tell it’s vegan. Use this pizza to convince all your friends to give up cheese! 🙂

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The sauce only takes about 15 minutes and you can roll out the dough while the sauce cooks. If you make the cheese ahead of time, this Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza comes together pretty quickly!

Most pizza dough is vegan, but be sure to check the label. There could be butter or cheese hiding in there. For this Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza, we used a garlic herb pizza dough. We tried the recipe with whole wheat pizza dough but the crust came out a little too chewy, so we recommend a traditional white flour pizza dough for the best flavor and texture.

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Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza | Made with easy homemade cashew mozzarella and spicy sauce | Ready in 1 hour | Cheesy, saucy, delicious!
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Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza

Cheesy spicy and saucy, this vegan Chicago style deep dish pizza does it all! Made with homemade cashew cheese and sauce for maximum flavor, and store bought dough for maximum convenience. The corn meal makes it taste homemade!

Course Main Course
Cuisine Pizza, Vegan
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Author Carrots and Flowers

Ingredients

  • 4 cups small tomatoes chopped
  • 1/4 cup chopped basil
  • 3 cloves large garlic minced
  • 1 small can tomato paste
  • 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seed
  • 3/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • Vegan Pizza Dough
  • 1/4 cup + 1 tablespoon corn meal
  • 2-3 tablespoons flour to roll out dough

Vegan Mozzarella

  • 1/2 cup raw cashews soaked for 2 hours or boiled for 10 minutes
  • 1 1/4 cups water
  • 1/4 cup tapioca flour
  • 1 1/2 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp white pepper
  • 1/2 tsp garlic powder

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 450. Prepare the Vegan Mozzarella according to the recipe below and set aside. For the sauce, we recommend small tomatoes because they are more flavorful and hold their shape better in the sauce. We used mini San Marzano Roma tomatoes cut in halves or thirds. Cherry tomatoes also work well cut in half.

  2. Heat a medium skillet on medium. With a small amount of water or cooking oil, sauté the chopped tomatoes, garlic, and tomato paste for 5 minutes. Stir in the basil, salt, fennel seed, and red pepper flakes and cook for an additional 10 minutes. Stir occasionally to prevent sticking.
  3. While the sauce is cooking, stretch out the pre-made pizza dough into a semi-flat disc on a floured surface. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of corn meal onto the dough a few tablespoons at a time, kneading it into the dough until it's mostly uniform. Roll out the dough to a 10"-12" circle and sprinkle the remaining 1 tablespoon of corn meal into the bottom of a 9" cake pan. Carefully place the dough onto the cake pan. The dough should slightly hang over the edges or it will want to retract into a smaller piece. This part can be tricky. If the dough won't stay, try stretching it out a bit so more of the dough hangs over the edge. This will keep the dough in place.
  4. Using a spoon, spread the Vegan Mozzarella evenly onto the bottom of the cake pan. Top it with the sauce and smooth out the top. Unfold the edges of the dough from the lip of the cake pan. It will sink down into the pan a bit. You want it to be slightly taller than the filling. Use your fingers to even out the top of the dough. It doesn't have to be perfect. The rustic look will add to the finished pizza!
  5. Cook your Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza for 25-30 minutes at 450 until the crust is golden brown. Let it cool for 5 minutes before slicing. Serves 2-3 hungry people!

Vegan Mozzarella

  1. Blend all ingredients on high until smooth. Heat a small sauce pan on medium high heat, then transfer the contents of the blender to the saucepan. 

  2. Cook for 4-5 minutes while stirring constantly. The cheese will turn into a thick gooey ball in the center. It will remain sauce. You can spread it on the crust or it can be chilled and cut into chunks. The cheese can also be frozen and shredded. 

Recipe Notes

*If your dough is not very sticky, you may need a bit less corn meal. 

*Make the cashew mozzarella ahead to save time. 

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Look at that slice! I love that it looks like a piece of pie. You can hold it in your hands without it getting floppy and the crust has the perfect amount of crunch. Mmmmm, I’m getting hungry just typing this but I already ate the entire Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza. Luckily it’s really easy to make!

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Did you try this recipe? Leave us a comment and tell us about it! While you’re at it, post a photo to Instagram with the tag #carrotsandflowers and show off your Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza! 🙂

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If you love Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza and other delicious recipes that just so happen to be vegan, check out our 20 Minute Vegan Quesadillas or our Smoky Portobello Black Bean Burger.

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Vegan Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza | Made with easy homemade cashew mozzarella and spicy sauce | Ready in 1 hour | Cheesy, saucy, delicious!

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Comments

  1. Michael Lee says

    August 9, 2016 at 7:54 pm

    This looks AMAZING!!! Will have to try very soon!!

    Reply
    • Carrots and Flowers says

      September 18, 2016 at 2:49 am

      Thank you Michael! Hope you try it and love it. 🙂

      Reply
      • Ana tomsky says

        January 10, 2017 at 10:17 am

        Recipe says make vegan mozzarella according to recipe below but there were no instructions in how to make it with ingredients listed.

        Reply
        • Carrots and Flowers says

          January 11, 2017 at 5:01 am

          Thanks for the heads up! I changed the recipe format recently and forgot to include that part. It’s updated now, thanks again!

          Reply
    • Tracy Healy says

      February 13, 2017 at 7:41 pm

      SOOO good, I made this yesterday – my husband says it’s the best pizza he’s ever had and I agree!

      Reply
  2. Gail says

    August 18, 2016 at 7:58 pm

    Your crust looks delicious, as well as the rest of this beautiful pie. Any chance you could share the crust recipe?

    Reply
    • Carrots and Flowers says

      September 18, 2016 at 2:48 am

      Hi Gail,
      Thank you so much! We used a store bought crust and added cornmeal to it. So easy and so delicious! I don’t have a tried and true homemade crust recipe yet. 🙂

      Reply
    • Carrots and Flowers says

      January 11, 2017 at 5:04 am

      Hi Gail! We used a store bought crust from Trader Joe’s as I don’t have a trusted crust recipe yet. I’m working on it!

      Reply
  3. William says

    September 5, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    Made this today, cooked in 25 minutes, if I left it in any longer, it would have been black. It came out fantastic, this week be a once a week meal.
    My better half and I just devoured the entire pie!!
    The cheese is equally as amazing. Keep recipes coming, great job!!!

    Reply
    • Carrots and Flowers says

      September 18, 2016 at 2:48 am

      Hey William! Thanks for the feedback. We will test it again and adjust the recipe to give a narrower range. Thanks again and we are so happy you enjoyed the pizza!

      Reply
  4. Rosey says

    October 22, 2016 at 2:53 am

    We just made this…Loved it! Great way to use lots of garden fresh tomatoes! The only thing I would say is that our particular pizza dough we purchased wasn’t very “sticky”. So using 1/4 cup of cornmeal was way too much. The cornmeal wouldn’t knead into this not so sticky dough. It also barely stuck to the bottom of our dough. This is nothing against your recipe, just a warning to others whose dough is not sticky…from your pics, yours looks quite sticky!
    Thanks for the recipe 🙂

    Reply
  5. superfitbabe says

    December 25, 2016 at 5:17 am

    Definitely found the new love of my life in this post! Looks delicious!!

    Reply
  6. Brigit says

    January 22, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    Made this last night. Really loved it. I cooked it for the indicated amount of time, but covered it with parchment paper and tinfoil for the last 10 minutes to keep it from burning. Totally loved the addition of cornmeal to the crust.

    Reply
    • Carrots and Flowers says

      January 25, 2017 at 3:39 am

      So happy you enjoyed the recipe!

      Reply
  7. Renee says

    February 17, 2017 at 3:13 am

    Just made the pizza and the flavors were great but the consistency was runny. Any suggestions for making it firm up more?

    Reply
  8. Samantha Finch says

    November 9, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    I didn’t have tapioca flour and had to sub brown rice flour. The cheese didn’t set really (in the fridge for 9 hrs), but it tasted AMAZING! Even the omni husband, who kept telling me I was going to ruin pizza, loved it.

    Reply
  9. Toni Kuri says

    March 8, 2019 at 4:29 am

    Which baking mold would you recommend for this? Cast iron? Ceramic? Other?

    Reply
  10. Alexis says

    March 30, 2020 at 7:05 pm

    Great recipe! My pizza turned out delicious

    Reply
    • Carrots and Flowers says

      April 7, 2020 at 3:41 am

      So glad to hear it!

      Reply

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