Deep Dish Pizza
This recipe is another one of my favorite super easy, quick to throw together, family pleasing, and incredibly delicious meals, originally from mother’s recipe collection. One of the best things about it is how incredibly adaptable it is to whatever ingredients you have on hand! I’ve made it with absolutely no cheese before and it was still delicious!
This recipe is a testament to just how many family recipes we have. I have an original family cookbook that I made eons ago which lists where every recipe came from and notes about it so I always go and look up that information when I am about to post. I have been bragging to my mother about how delicious this is for ages and telling her that she MUST make it soon! I finally got her intrigued enough to ask for the recipe and she bought all of the ingredients yesterday saying “That does sound good, I’ll have to try that this week!”. This morning when I went to my original cookbook to see where the recipe came from originally, I find out its hers!
NOW I know why it tastes so familiar and where I’ve had it before! I remember having this when I was a little girl but I guess Mama got busy with other recipes and busy work and it eventually faded into the background. Well I am reviving this puppy once more, Mama, coz it is SO GOOD!!
For all of my readers with hungry men and teenage boys to feed, get ready for a home run with Deep Dish Pizza!
For the filling you’ll need: Ground beef, Pizza sauce, italian seasoning, onion, parmesan cheese, Mozzarella, and a bit of pepper.
I already have my beef browned and bagged in the freezer so any ground beef dish is a lot quicker for me. The original recipe (posted at the bottom) calls for one pound of ground beef and one pound of sausage. I just used two pounds of ground beef. See how adaptable this is?
Of course, I use the generic pizza sauce because it is awesome anyway.
For your super easy crust, you’ll need milk, all purpose flour, eggs, bit of salt, and a wee bit of vegetable oil.
Yes, you can use olive oil in place of vegetable oil but I don’t. Why? Because Olive Oil is so expensive it just doesn’t make sense to me. If I ever start drinking oil, I’ll look into more “refined” options 
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In a large skillet, add your beef and chopped onion. You can also add any other pizza ingredients you typically enjoy. Had my entire family (except for me) not been dropped on their heads as children (thereby ruining their ability to tell what is good in food), I would be adding bell pepper and mushrooms now YUM!
Of course, this is the step where you would normally brown your beef but I’m just heating mine up a bit here. I’m not really worried about sauteing my onions that much either, just getting them started cooking because they will finish just fine as it bakes in the oven.
I love getting pizza at this little market near our house because they will put all of my favorite toppings on just one or two pieces and leave the rest of the pizza pepperoni only for the unimaginative folks in my life ~grins~
Pour in your pizza sauce and stir.
Now we’re done!
Spray a 9×13 inch pan with baking spray.
Sprinkle Mozzarella cheese over the bottom of the pan.
I am so glad I have leftovers of this to eat right after I am done with this post!
Leftovers of deep dish pizza are EXCELLENT by the way!
Spread meat mixture over the mozzarella.
Now its time to make our crust, you’re just not going to believe how easy it is!
Pour milk into a medium sized bowl.
Add flour
Add eggs and salt
Add your oil.
Stir all of that up well with a large spoon, making sure you get your eggs broken up and mixed in.
That’s it, you’re totally done!
Pour crust batter over meat.
Bake at 350 for thirty minutes. It may not look done but it is .
By now, your kitchen is filled with the most delicious smell. Your kids and spouse have been driving you crazy asking if its done yet, and your stomach has set into a continual growl. Or maybe that’s just me .
Deep Dish Pizza
*I simplified this a great deal. I’m posting the original recipe with my notes in brackets.
1 lb ground beef
1lb Italian sausage (I use 2 lbs ground beef and leave out sausage)
1 med onion, chopped
1 C flour
1 bell pepper, chopped (I omit due to picky family)
15 ounce jar pizza sauce
1/2 C Parmesan (Parmesan is not as easy to spell as one might think…)
8 ounce mozzarella
1/2 tsp salt
dash black pepper
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1 T oil
1/2 tsp garlic salt
1/4 cup oregano (I leave out garlic salt and oregano and just put in two tablespoons Italian Seasoning)
Preheat oven to 350. Brown hamburger, sausage, onion, and bell pepper. Drain well. Add garlic salt and oregano (or Italian Seasoning). Add pizza sauce. Stir well. Grease a 9×13 inch pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle mozzarella over bottom of it. Spread meat mixture over the cheese. In mixing bowl, add eggs, milk, flour, oil, and salt. Pour over meat in pan. Sprinkle parmesan cheese over batter. Bake 30 minutes.
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Gratefully,
Christy
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I’m first!! WOW that looks good and looks like something my picky kid will eat! I will make it this week!!
~giggle~ I’m gonna make an “I was first” award for my posts!This is fun!
It is sooooooooooooooo good. Just had it for breakfast!
hehe
Gratefully,
Christy
That pizza looks really good – I have to make it for my daughter, she’ll love it! Just wanted to let you know that I read your site regularly and love it!
Oh HEY Natasha!!! wow thank you so much!!!
Wow! That looks so good. I know what we’re having for dinner Friday night.
yay!!Let me know how you like it!!
Oh my goodness!!! I’m about ready to weather this ‘ice storm’ in order to get the couple things I’m lacking. All I’m missin is the mozerella(I can’t spell), pizza sauce, and just discovered that i’m out of italian seasoning. I just HAVE to have this!!!
Ice storm? Wow. I suppose this isn’t a good time to mention that I am running the air conditioner right now, is it? ~cowers~
It really is good, I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!
That looks great! I made a Chef Boy-ar-dee pizza last night.. Those things can really be awful but I love them. Back in high school, me and a friend got the pizza mix and found all these black specks in the flour mixture.. we just figured it was pepper…. It wasn’t.. we got pretty sick that night.
~blinks~
Oh Bill……..
Sorry, lol. On the bright side. A friend of mine I introduced to the site gushed over the pizza recipe. I also put it on my Facebook but unfortunately, I can’t show it to you.
This looks absolutely divine! I usually make my own pizza sauce by grabbing cans of tomato sauce and adding some seasonings to it. It’s usually a lot cheaper and tastes better! We’ll have to try making this pizza this weekend!
You said it is great as leftovers… how do you reheat it? Throw it back in the oven, or just microwave?
Hon, I just pop that sucker in the microwave! lol
If its a recipe of mine, its low maintenance!
Looks good, but do you have one with NO meat?
Joann…load up on the veggies…I would sautee zucchini and summer squash and onions (I like red onions on pizza) and maybe red and green peppers and mushrooms…add some olives right at the end. Yummy!!!!
Angela, why don’t you and JoAnn get together and do that and invite me over to eat? I’ll bring dessert!
P.S. I request mushrooms, too!
Thanks for a great quick pizza idea. my sweet baby ( my 5 year old son ) loves pizza. I can’t wait to make it. Many blessings and Happy Cooking
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You are so very welcome! I know just what you mean about your sweet baby. My sweet baby is nine now
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He is growing so fast, I swear his feet look like Bugs Bunny!!!
I am a pizzaholic. I can’t wait to try this one. Thanks for the recipe!
ME TOO!!!
In fact, hubster is working late tonight and I sooooooooooooooooooooooo wanna order out.
Hard to get past the guilt though!
Yep, off to wally world I go!!!
See ya there!!!!
Have I told you lately how much I adore you? This stuff is amazing(not surprised). The kids thought it was lasagna when they saw it…lol. I’d be willing to bet this will be a weekly thing!!!
Oh yeah, Christy, I have some bad news………in the last couple of days, I have been in every grocer in Clarksville and not a one has Pioneer brand baking mix. The tut you put up actually looked like ‘from scratch’ and I was soooo excited that I might actually be able to make them(too scared to try bare bones, I might over-knead). I just don’t know what to do with myself now(the pizza helped though).
I am going to try this recipe as soon as I can get my car out of the driveway and get to the store for the ingredients I’m lacking. It sounds so YUMMY
I know my family will love it, and it’s simple enough that my kids can still have a hand in putting it together.
I love how you think! It means so much to kids to be able to help!
Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!!!
I love this… I haven’t had it for years and years and had lost the recipe… thanks so much!
Of course, I love everything you make/do and wish I had not gained so much weight so I could eat them all!
And I love you reading and every single comment you make, Merrie!! Thank you!!!
Christy, new email link worked fine! This is so easy looking to do and my mouth is watering…got to go thaw some ground beef!!!
Oh good!! Thank you for letting me know!! I was afraid some of my subscribers might not like it as much but the response has been very positive!!!
Hope you enjoy it and thanks so much!
Thanks for posting this, Christy! I see what I’ll be making for dinner next week! Hehehe. It looks so good.
YAY! you know what is funny is that picture is actually of a leftover piece I heated in the microwave to photograph!
Shhhh! Don’t tell on me!
this is DELICIOUS!!!!! So quick and easy! Will make this again and again. We love pizza!!
WOW you are my overachiever for the day! GO YOU!!!
So glad you liked it!!!!
Wow, that looks good and it’s different for sure! Kind of like a pizza casserole or impossible pie?? I bet my hubs would LOVE this … thanks for sharin’ it!
Yup! only the crust actually stays on top and the bottom layer is CHEEEESE!
Thank YOU!!!!! Hope he enjoys it!!!
This was how the school cooks prepared pizza when I was in school. Yum.
I wonder if that is where mama got the recipe…I’ll have to ask now!!!!
Are you kidding me? This really works? I’ve got to try this!! Yup…will try this one Saturday night. Thanks!!
TOTALLY serious!!! You’re gonna DIE when you taste it!!
SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO good!!!!
I am all about the easy stuff!
This sounds really good, and do-a-ble even when my Lupus is acting up and making me hurt so much. Quick to put together and even better to eat! LOL My question is, we made and canned spaghetti sauce this summer. Do you think I could use that instead of the pizza sauce?
ABSOLUTELY!!!!
It would be divine with that!!!! I hope you get to feeling better!!!
Hi Christy and thanks for yet another great recipe. I can’t wait to get to the store and pick up the few things I’m lacking to make it.
We all love a good pizza for sure.
Also wanted to let you know my little ones and I made your canned bisquit doughnuts, and they were great. We had almost as much fun making them as we did eating them. We did some in cinnamon sugar, some with powered sugar and dipped the rest in chocolate, uuummmm!!
Just might fix the pizza for dinner with fresh doughnuts for dessert.
Thanks and you are greatly appreciated,
Betty
Oh Betty, I so want to go to your house!!!
Thank you so very much, I’m so thrilled to have you hear and truly appreciate you taking the time to comment. These comments mean the world to me.
Gratefully,
Christy
That looks so delicious and easy! You and your family are awesome!!!
Well now keep this up and I’m gonna puff up like a peacock!!!
I needed to feel awesome today, how did you know?
Gratefully,
Christy
As soon as we finish up your wonderful chicken stew, this is next on my list to make! While I was thumbing through your cookbook at the kitchen table this weekend, my husband was skimming upsidedown and this exact recipe caught his eye. And your photos look so good they’ve lit a fire under me!
You know I have been wanting some chicken stew lately, maybe I sensed that you had made it!
Tell your husband he has a good eye because mine almost keeled over from joy when he tasted this!!!
I love photos too, I just don’t try a new recipe unless I can see what its gonna look like these days!
Christy…I luhhv your site! (Hope you could hear my southern drawl!) Would one need to double or tripe this recipe for a church potluck? Susan
Well baby, dahlin’, you’ve just made m’day! Aren’t you the sweetest thang since simple syrup! Course I can hear your gorgeous accent! M’ears are a singin’!
For a church potluck with other dishes present, I’d just make one and cut it into small squares. After this cools it is incredibly easy to cut. If you cut it into smaller squares you could easily get at least twenty servings out of it. It is very filling, too!
Thank ya, Susan! Hope to see you around often!!!
Thanks, Christy. We have a peanut allergy in the family, and he is also a very fussy eater. He loves pizza, tho, and I think he will like this one. There are SO many recipes we can’t use.
Oh Swedie, I can imagine! My kids are peanut butter-holics and in light of this recent slew of recalls, I’m trying to replace it in their diets for a while. You gotta get awfully crafty !
Hope he enjoys this!
This looks so incredibly good and easy enough for me to handle! Thanks!
It really is. I thought the tutorial made it look more complicated than it actually is so I bet you’ll be even more surprised!
Quick+Easy+Good
I love recipes like that!
Glad you posted before I went out to the store now I can add it to my list.
YAY!!! I’m so glad y’all trust me enough to want to make it! lol
Christy – I’m in trouble at home. My family really enjoys the new and delicious meals they have been getting, but my wife is getting fed up with me talking about this Cristy person and what a good cook she is. Sorry, I guess I have to just shut up about your great receipts and just prepare them. Tonight I’m making this secret pizza receipt I found.
I had a hard time replying to this comment because i had to wait until I could stop laughing and start breathing regularly again so I could type………wait……
Okay…I stopped again…uh oh…….
This was the BEST comment, I love it!!! You’ve made me laugh myself silly! Now I’ve got to call Mama and read it to her…
Man that looks so good. Can’t wait to make it..Thanks
Thank YOU!
I love Frigo Parmesan cheese!! Please get this brand, readers, if you don’t want the pre-shredded version!
I will definitely be trying out this recipe soon. I made some homemade pizza dough yesterday, so it will be a while before I get to it. I love pizza!!
Thanks for another great recipe!!
What is SO FUNNY is I was reading your comment and thinking “hmm, I wonder if they have Frigo Parmesan here, I’ll have to look…”
Had no idea what brand I had gotten! lol It is good on spaghetti though!
Hope you enjoy this and thank you so much, Memoria!!!
This looks like one of those “impossible” pies that you used to see on that unnameable box of mix. But this looks much better. By the way, your pork chop recipe was a hit. I like the spice and my other half gobbled it up and I got a “please make this again” request. This will be next on the list once I get to feelin better.
That looks really good Christy. I saw something similar on foodnetwork the other day. She had sausage and mushrooms in it and the crust is a bit different. I think my family would prefer your version better. Got it down on my menu for next month.
Have everything I need. Was wondering what for dinner and I have just found it. Found your site by accident a couple weeks ago and love it. Keep up the great work and the great recipes.
i can’t wait for my husband to get back in town, so i can make this.
This looks great!
I have to ask, why is the cheese on the bottom instead of on top of the meat?
Have you ever switched it?
Thanks!
The cheese melts together and forms a layer on the bottom that holds the meat in and the piece together when you cut it and remove it from the pan. You can put the cheese on top, but then you’d have a lot of loose meat and you’d have to scoop it all out, it wouldn’t hold its shape like it does normally.
Hope this helps!
Christy:)
I was wondering about this, too. I had all the ingredients for this and I made it for supper tonight. I almost put the cheese on top of the meat but I thought I’d better just follow the recipe. You SURELY knew what you were doing. And you DID! I took the pizza out of the oven and let it set for about 10 minutes on the counter and then I cut it and it cut beautifully. Barely any meat fell out. It was awesome! My family loved it, by the way. I will have to make it again soon! Thanks again, Christy!
Yes this does help.
thank you!
OK so I made this and the kids were crazy about it!
Thank you!!!
Can you tell me why there is no leaving agent in the batter? What if I were to add 1 tsp of soda? What would happen? Or what would happen if I double the crust ingredients?
thanks!!!
ok that is leavening agent-cant spell either-lol
Absolutely friggin delicious!!!!!!!!!!! Cooked one up and am doing everything I can not to to consume the whole pizza! Thank you, easy, fast, delicious….. Nom Nom Nom……
Ben
Another hit!!! You are gonna have to come and cook for some of theese Military people here at Andrews.. All of your recipes are a hit so far.Thank you for your website.Blessing’s .Ann
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I think some people are meant to feed the world, and Christy you are one of them. I just love the recipes,and the very warm and friendly comments attached to them.My Grandkids are ga ga over this pizza Thankyou so much Love and Peace Coleen
This Deep Dish Pizza looks yummy. Can’t wait to try it. My family will love it.
This will probably be on next weeks menu Christy. It looks great and I have not found anything from here we haven’t adored.
Christy,
This sounds yummy!!! My daughter just had a baby boy on Monday and I’m looking for some easy dishes I can make for them. She has Twin girls 2 1/2 years old. So easy is what she will need too. I think her family would really like this one…
Did you use regular or self-rising flour?
I made it with reg. flour,but wondered if it would puff up more with self rising…
Christy, what a great recipe!!!! I can´t wait to try with different fillings….! Yummy!!!
Thanks!
By the way, I tried to subscribe for printer friendly versions of the recipes and the recipe booklet and did work out, an error occured….
Verena
This sounded too good to pass up for supper, so I stopped for ingredients on the way home. I added the green pepper (my husband says anything with hamburger needs green pepper!), pineapple and green olives, and Christy, the aroma was so amazing, I’m glad it only took 30 minutes to bake! We wolfed down all but 2 pieces, and those are in my husband’s lunch today. Thanks AGAIN for proving to my husband I CAN COOK if I have the right teacher! You go, girl!
are all your recipes in your cookbook? can you make the deep dish pizza with pepperoni, canadian bacon and mushrooms? thank you.
We just got our power on today after the ice storm. I’m going to be having me some of this tomorrow night. It sounds DEE-licious!
Okay – this was soooo yummy! I will be making this again and again and again!
YAY! Thank you! So glad you liked it!! I just love it to bits!
Thank you so much for that wonderful wonderful recipe! my boyfriend is an extremely picky eater and he loved it! i am hooked on your website now. keep the good and easy recipes coming please!
i can’t wait to try this – i have a house of flu sick people so i will wait til they can enjoy this too
question – can you freeze this? i take a meal to a family once a month (they have a baby born at 22 weeks they are caring for) and i usually take 2 of the same thing, one cooked and one frozen, one for now and one for later kinda thing – how do you think it would freeze… after it’s cooked?
THANKS and PUH-LEEZE keep cookin’!
Hey Girl! I just have to say that I LOVE your website – and most of all – YOUR RECIPES! I’ve share the link with all my yankee friends. They need to see how great it is to live in the South! Thanks for sharing your talents…..
My mom made this when we were little (we called it pop-up pizza).
I haven’t had this in years and was just thinking of looking up the recipe to make for my family. Thanks for bringing back a great memory for me!
I made this along with pizza rolls Saturday. Let’s just say yum!
I made with without the sausage…just ground beef, no green peppers, but a small can of drained mushrooms and instead of the pizza sauce used my Bertolli’s Organic Olive Oil, Basil and Garlic spaghetti sauce (about 3/4 of the jar). It turned out fantastic as did the leftovers whether reheated in oven or microwave! Thanks for a new addition to my tried and true recipes!
I made this lastnight and it was a HUGE hit!! thank you so much for the recipe. I will be maing this often:)
This is so quick and easy, I do not have a lot of time. I travel for work so when I am at home I have sooo much to do. But my 21 year old son likes this pizza and he is skinny as a rail so I am so happy to find something he will eat. I do put a little sugar in the with the flour. And my Kroger here in Dallas does not have Pizza sauce..Go Figure. So I use Barille Basil sauce. And I have to hide the onions, so I use the powder. But it is a Hit! Thanks
I made this Saturday, using an 8 oz. package mix of pizza cheese, chopped some link sausage up with the meat sauce, and we ATE IT ALL UP! I think we might have made inroads into a second one, but I only made one. Everyone expressed interest in me making more in the near future.
I’m cooking this meal right now & I can alread tell it’s going to be a keeper. The only thing I’m doing to tweak it to make it my own is just adding a little Italian Seasoning Salt to the meat – only because I like the taste of this seasoning so much.
Everything I’ve made thus far have all been winners.
Alisa
It was fantastic! We had no leftovers. We changed the name to upside down pizza. Thank you so much for a most needed addition to the dinner rotation.
This was a 4 thumbs up from my family last night!!! Quick and easy, got to love that! Thanks for the additional ideas.
Julie
I have been a fan of your blog for a couple months now. This will be my first recipe from it tonight!
I have never wanted to take a bite out of my computer monitor… until now…
Wow! The pizza was fabulous! My hubby & daughter were almost fighting over it LOL. He said “You can fix this anytime you like!” Super simple and satisfying. Thanks Christy.
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Oh this looks so easy and so yummy!!!
I am so making this.
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Hi Christy,
I just made this for my family. As soon as my husband walked in the door he asked what smells so good. The smell that fills the house while this bakes is amazing. My oldest daughter declared this her new favorite meal! I like to try a new recipe a week and I always check your site first. Thanks for all the wonderful recipes and great craft ideas. Congrats on your book deal! I can’t wait to pick myself up a copy.
Made this last night for supper and it was a hit. I customized, not to my family’s taste, but to my need to make it FAST. I left out the onions and peppers just because I was in a major rush. The family still loved it.
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Christy, I made this tonight and I messed it up SO BAD!! First mistake, I put my husband in charge of browning the beef, sausage and onions, while I took care of some other things. He did OK on that, but then I called out to him how much of each seasoning to add. He is a very smart man, but evidently has no idea how to use measuring spoons! There was WAAAAAAY too much salt, red pepper flakes (my addition), and oregano, and there’s just no way it got that way sticking to the amounts I told him.
Then I contributed to the disaster. Since there’s only two of us, I cut the recipe in half, but forgot and mixed up the full amount of crust batter. I thought, “That’s OK…I’ll just use part of it.” Nope…apparently my latent ADD kicked in and I poured all the batter over the top. Oh, you should have seen it. It looked nothing whatsoever like yours. What a salty, too spicy, doughy MESS it was! And it was totally the cook’s fault.
I consider myself a good cook, so this just made me mad. I HAVE to make this again (ALONE this time, thank you very much!)just to redeem myself!
Maybe you could do a post telling us about some of your own cooking disasters! It would sure make me feel better!