[net.cooks] Easy Deep-Dish Pizza Recipe

tjj@ssc-vax.UUCP (T J Jardine) (08/26/83)

Easy Deep-Dish Pizza
(from Betty Crocker's Creative Recipes with Bisquick)

3 cups		Bisquick baking mix
3/4 cup		Cold water
1 pound		Ground beef
1/2 cup		Chopped onion
1/2 tsp		Salt
2 cloves	Garlic, crushed
1 15oz can	Tomato sauce
1 tsp		Italian seasoning
1 4.5ox jar	Sliced mushrooms, drained
1/2 cup		Chopped green pepper
2 cups		Shredded Mozzarella cheese
		(about 8 oz)

Heat oven to 425.  Lightly grease jelly roll pan, 15.5x10.5x1 inch, or
cookie sheet.  Mix baking mix and water until soft dough forms; beat
vigorously 20 strokes.  Gently smooth dough into ball on floured cloth-
covered board.  Knead 20 times.  Pat dough in bottom and up sides of
pan with floured hands.  Or roll into rectangle, 13x10 inches, and place
on cookie sheet; pinch edges of rectangle, forming 3/4 inch rim.  Cook
and stir ground beef, onion, salt and garlic until beef is brown.  Mix
tomato sauce and Italian seasoning; spread over dough.  Spoon beef
mixture over sauce.  Top with remaining ingredients.  Bake until crust
is golden brown, about 20 minutes.  8 servings.

(High Altitude [3500-6500 ft] Heat oven to 450; use boiling water; bake
15-20 minutes)

We add Pepperoni to beef mixture when cooking it; also use sliced fresh
mushrooms; other variation possible to taste.  Generally use two 9 inch
cake pans with excellent results.  My wife just pulled it out of the oven,
so got to go.  Enjoy!

TJ (with Amazing Grace) The Piper
ssc-vax!tjj