Make our Uno Pizzeria & Grill Cheese and Tomato Deep Dish Pizza Recipe at home. With our Secret Restaurant Recipe your Cheese and Tomato Deep Dish Pizza will taste just like Uno Pizzeria & Grill.

“Pizza Dough, Tomato Sauce and Mozzarella are layered in a Springform Pan for a Deep-Dish Dinner. Although traditional Chicago Pizza has all the Cheese on the bottom, we divided it between the top and the bottom.”

Photo by Marco Verch

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Uno Pizzeria & Grill Cheese and Tomato Deep Dish Pizza Recipe

Make our Uno Pizzeria & Grill Cheese and Tomato Deep Dish Pizza Recipe at home. With our Secret Restaurant Recipe your Cheese and Tomato Deep Dish Pizza will taste just like Uno Pizzeria & Grill.

Prep Time25 minutes mins

Active Time1 hour hr 20 minutes mins

Total Time1 hour hr 45 minutes mins

Course: Dinner, Kid Favorite, Lunch, Main Course, Pizza

Cuisine: American, Italian

Keyword: Local and Regional Favorite Recipes, Pizza

Equipment

• 10-inch round Deep Dish Pan or Springform Pan.

Ingredients

Chunky Tomato Sauce

• One 28-ounce can Crushed or Diced Tomatoes the chunkier, the better
• 2 tablespoons Tomato Paste
• 2 tablespoons Red Wine
• 2 teaspoons Italian Seasoning or 2 tablespoons fresh chopped Italian Herbs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons dried Onion
• 3 cloves Garlic peeled and minced
• 1/2 teaspoon Salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground Black Pepper to taste

Pizza

• 3 tablespoons Vegetable Oil
• 16 ounces Pizza Dough at room temperature
• 4 cups shredded Mozzarella Cheese divided
• 3/4 cup Chunky Tomato Sauce
• 2 tablespoons freshly grated Romano Cheese
• 1 tablespoon dried Oregano

Instructions

Sauce

• Place all ingredients in a large saucepan.
• Place saucepan over medium high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer about 10 minutes.
• Remove from heat and allow to cool.
• (Note - You will have sauce left over after making the pizza. Store sauce in a tightly sealed container, in the refrigerator, up to 1 week for additional uses.)

Crust

• Preheat oven to 400°F.
• Pour oil into a 10-inch round, deep dish pan or springform pan.
• Place dough in the center of pan. Work dough from the center outward, pressing to cover bottom of pan and halfway up sides. Prick dough all over with a fork.
• Place in preheated oven and bake crust about 10 minutes.
• Remove from oven. Leave oven on.
• Let crust cool for 10 minutes.

Pizza

• Spread 2 cups mozzarella cheese into crust.
• Top with 3/4 cup tomato sauce.
• Sprinkle remaining 2 cups mozzarella cheese, Romano cheese and oregano on top.
• Place in preheated oven. Bake 35 to 40 minutes, rotating pizza every 15 minutes. The crust should be golden brown, and the cheese should be bubbling.
• Remove from oven.
• Allow to cool 3 minutes.
• Remove pizza from pan using a spatula.
• Cut and serve.

Uno Pizzeria & Grill Cheese and Tomato Deep Dish Pizza

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Photo of “Close-up of a cheese and tomato pizza made by Pizzeria Uno: the birthplace of Deep Dish Pizza” is by Marco Verch and is used by permission under the Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Creative Commons License. Read the Full License Here – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode. Thank you, Marco. Great Picture. Photos may be “representative” of the recipe and not the actual finished dish. All photo licenses listed were correct at the time of the posting of the page. Recipe is our adaption of several recipes formally widely-circulated on the internet – courtesy of the Wayback Machine. Additional Information Courtesy of Wikipedia and is used by permission.