Recipe
This Deep Dish Pizza Recipe Brings Chicago to You
If you've ever heard anything about the city of Chicago, specifically its food scene, it was most likely followed up by the phrase "deep-dish pizza." For locals, deep dish pizza is a savory treat and a Chicago food they can't live with out. If you're not a Chicago native, you may wonder what makes Chicago-style deep dish pizza distinct from every other ordinary slice of thin crust pizza you've consumed in your lifetime.
Chicago-style deep dish pizza throws every preconceived notion of pizza out the window. For starters, the pizza is baked in a pan, comparable to a pie, and the pizza crust is substantially thick. Secondly, cheese is placed directly on top of the thick buttery crust, with the chunky tomato sauce going on top of the cheese, opposed to the typical sauce then cheese method. While this may go against all conventional norms of pizza making, it truly makes Chicago-style pizza its own. This deep dish pizza recipe tastes like the stuff you buy in the Windy City, minus the long drive to get there.
Pizza Sauce
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 30 mins
- Total Time: 40 mins
- Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 onion - diced
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 garlic clove - chopped
- 4 plum tomatoes - chopped
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 14 oz can diced tomatoes
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#SpoonTIp: Crushed red pepper is the exact same thing as red chili flakes.
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Deep Dish Pizza
- Prep Time: 10 secs
- Cook Time: 30 secs
- Total Time: 40 secs
- Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1 package store-bought pizza crust
- 1/2 package spicy Italian sausage
- 2 cups shredded Mozzarella cheese
- 2 cups pizza sauce
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
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#SpoonTip: Chop the onions, garlic, and tomatoes, and then preheat the oven. Once the sauce is finished, all you have to do is assemble it on top of the pizza and pop it in the oven. After the steaming hot pizza pie is removed form the oven, grab a fork—yes, I said fork—and dig in.
If cooking up your own Chicago-style deep dish pizza seems a little too ambitious for you, plan a trip to Chicago and rely on some of the best pizza places in the city that have been perfecting the process for years.