Deep dish mexican pizza
Deep dish mexican pizza recipe in the pizza category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 thick pizza crust
- Nonstick cooking spray
- 1/2 small onion, diced
- 1 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 15 ounces black beans, rinsed and drained
- 2 ounces diced green chilies
- Cornmeal
- 1 cup shredded monterey jack cheese
- 3/4 cup diced tomatoes
- 1/2 cup frozen whole kernel corn, thawed
- 1/2 green bell pepper, diced
- 2 ounces sliced ripe black olives, drained
- 1/2 teaspoon olive oil
- Salsa, optional
- Sour cream, optional
Recipe method:
- Prepare pizza crust.
- Preheat oven to 500 degrees F.
- Spray 2 to 3 quart saucepan with cooking spray.
- Place over medium heat.
- Add onion, chili powder, cumin, cinnamon and 1 tablespoon water. Stir.
- Cover and cook 3 to 4 minutes or until onion is crisp tender.
- Stir in beans and chilies.
- Transfer 1/2 of the bean mixture to food processor or blender.
- Process until almost smooth.
- Spray 14 inch deep dish pizza pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Sprinkle with cornmeal.
- Press dough gently into bottom and up side of pan.
- Cover with plastic wrap and let stand in warm place 15 to 20 minutes or until puffy.
- Bake 5 to 7 minutes or until dry and firm on top.
- Spread pureed bean mixture over crust up to thick edge.
- Top with half the cheese, remaining bean mixture, tomatoes, corn, bell pepper and olives.
- Top with remaining cheese.
- Bake 10 to 12 minutes more or until crust is deep golden.
- Brush crust edges with olive oil.
- Cut into wedges.
- Serve with salsa and sour cream.
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