Vegan Deep Dish Pizza Gluten Free Recipe

I am sure you know how much I love pizza. Yes, I adore it! That’s why I always get so excited when I create a new pizza recipe. This deep dish pizza is a crowd-pleaser for sure. You can make the recipe with a regular (wheat flour) dough, but for all of you who are gluten-free (and vegan), you have to try out this recipe!

Healthy Pizza

You might ask why I am sharing this vegan deep dish pizza recipe with you. Well, I like veggies, mushrooms, and vegan cheese. You can fill up a deep dish pizza with lots and lots of veggies… So yeah, it’s actually a pretty healthy “pizza casserole” because of all the veggies, right. And I want you all to try out healthy-ish recipes. Isn’t it amazing when you can say: “I just ate a healthy pizza with tons of veggies and it actually tasted amazing”.

Filling For This Vegan Chicago Style Pizza

I chose spinach, peppers, mushrooms, corn, onion, tomato sauce, and vegan cheese as the filling. However, you can choose any toppings which you like for this deep dish pizza, for example, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, chickpeas and so much more.

Gluten-Free Pizza Dough

I created a new gluten-free pizza dough with chickpea flour, rice flour, and tapioca flour and actually like it A LOT! If you don’t already have a (store-bought) gluten-free flour mix at home, you should give this flour mix a try. If you don’t care whether the pizza dough is gluten-free or not, then you can also make regular pizza dough with wheat flour or spelt flour. The deep dish pizza will be most likely thicker and fluffier.

Additional Dough Layer

This Deep Dish Pizza Is:

Vegan (dairy-free, egg-free) Gluten-free Crispy Gum-free Healthy Easy to make Versatile

Vegan Cheese Sauce

I used my easy vegan cheese sauce recipe, however, you can use any vegan cheese of choice, whether its vegan mozzarella or vegan cheddar cheese, it’s your choice. To make this, simply divide the dough into 2 parts, one being 2/3 of the size of the other one. Spread the larger rolled out dough into the pan/springform and use the smaller rolled out dough as an additional layer in between the veggies!

Crowd-Pleaser

I made this vegan deep dish pizza a couple of times for friends and everyone loved it! It’s so much fun to get creative and try out new things with simple pizza dough. The recipe is easy to make because you just need a pizza dough and your favorite veggies. Should you recreate this Chicago Style Pizza, please leave a comment below and don’t forget to tag me in your Instagram or Facebook post with @elavegan and #elavegan because I love to see your recreations.