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 .
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1lb Italian sausage (I use 2 lbs ground beef and leave out sausage)
- 1 med onion, chopped
- 1 Cup all purpose flour
- 1 bell pepper, chopped (I omit due to picky family)
- 15 ounce jar pizza sauce
- 1/2 Cup 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 fresh oregano*
- **I leave out garlic salt and oregano and just put in two tablespoons dry Italian Seasoning
Instructions
- 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 9x13 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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“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” ~Abraham Lincoln.
How happy have you decided to be today?
Gratefully,
Christy
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on Jan 27 2009. Filed under Main Course, Quick&Easy.
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Made this last night with my daughter. Huge HUGE huge hit!!! We both absolutely loved it. Thank you for another go to recipe
in the oven now! (((:
I made this for the first time tonight. A huge, huge hit in my picky eaters household! I didn’t have any mozzarella cheese so I just used cheddar and Parmesan. I want to try this with Canadian bacon, mild Italian sausage and pepperoni, too. Left out the onions and peppers due to the picky eaters here. I love everything but the kitchen sink on pizza. This is a winner recipe.
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Christy, just made your pizza…I followed everything word for word..but I found it a little bland…it was like it was missing something…maybe it was the crust and maybe it was the parmasen cheese…not sure..I used the bell peppers and I italian seasoning in the meat mixture along with onions…not sure where I went wrong…oh well … liked everything else that I have made so far…thanks….Next!
The top batter was still raw after 30 minutes. I cooked it an additional 15-20 minutes. It was good, but more like lasagna than pizza.
I’ve made this several times for my family. Using half Italian Sausage really adds alot to the flavor, when I used only beef it was a bit more bland. I have a seasoning blend I bought from a bulk store called pizza topping. I stir about a tablespoon into the meat mixture and about half a tablespoon into the dough. I also add a liberal spoonfull of the jarred minced garlic to the meat mixture. That said, this is a real favorite at our house and since there’s only three of us, we eat leftovers the next night plus a lunch or two!
I made mine with ground turkey and turkey meatballs in which i ground up with tomato basil sauce. Cooked mime like 47 minutes took a lil while to get done but still good. Thanks
I also used shallots instead of onions
Made this for the first time tonight. Huge hit at our house and cooked in the right amount of time. Substituted the italian sausage for a layer of pepperoni. Just layered the pepperoni after the cheese and beofre the sauce/beef mixture…YUM! Thanks so much…this is a keeper
I am so glad to hear you liked it Cindy!!
I just had to come across this when I am really, really watching what I eat. lol
Going to try this one very soon. I make something very similar, but the “crust” is canned biscuits cut into quarters.
Just made this for my picky boys! Absolutely wonderful!! Thanks for posting!!
Stay at home single dad here, taking care of his family and always looking for new recipes for my picky family. I swear some days it’s like I have to make 6 different meals sometimes because everyone likes and dislikes something in it. Made this today (kids eating it right now as i type this) and I have 2 smaller ones baking still. WOW, simply AMAZING! BOTH my picky eaters, the kids LOVE IT! First time EVER my oldest cleaned her plate! I am not only keeping this recipe, I’m following you on Facebook now and sharing this discovery with ALL my friends!
I am so glad to hear that EVERYONE liked it George!!! I have a picky eater too and it sure does make life easier when there is a recipe that everyone will eat!
Hi Christy! Love your recipes! Here’s a challenge for you: I have a vegetarian in the house and am wondering if you could make some suggestions for protein in place of the meat? My first thought would be to add two cans of bean, well rinsed and drained…Thank you for any advice; I’d love to make this tonight!
TVP, textured vegetable protein, or boca crumbles would work.
Hi, Christy!
You know that I LOVE every one of your recipes that I have EVER tried, but for us, this one just didn’t ‘do it’. No one in my family liked it , including me. It was really odd, it looked good, but we just thought it had a really weird taste…I don’t know if it was too much Italian seasoning or what..?…Also, the crust part was ‘gummy’…I went back and checked over everything to make sure I had made it right, (and I had), so it just must be us…But, my whole family got up from the table and threw it away. I am trying to figure out what to give them later on, because I know they are going to be hungry. I don’t mean to complain, I thought you just might like to know that it just didn’t taste ‘right’ to any of us. But, I sure do love all the other things you have posted!
I’d really like to try this, it looks great… But, I’m baffled by the cheese at the bottom if the baking pan. Just seems odd, I guess it all comes together though, huh?
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Made this yesterday and we had it last night for supper along with a tossed salad and fresh dinner rolls. D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!!!! Plenty left over for tonight and looking forward to another great meal. Your website is now in my list of favorites!!
This looks amazing. It smells amazing. Now waiting the 30 minutes while hoping it tastes amazing! And in the meantime, I’m so happy I found a recipe for ground beef which includes ingredients I actually have on hand in my sparsely-stocked just-before-payday kitchen.
Now, is it just me, or do ingredients listed out of preparation order in a recipe drive anyone else nuts?!?!
If I drive you crazy, it’s just coz I want a little company
Everyone in my family (except my somewhat picky 10-year old son) loved it. My husband even asked when I would make it again.
This recipe is a keeper for me! I think I’ll throw in some pepperoni next time for my daughter.
And rewrite the ingredients for me.
Thanks for bailing me out last night to the proverbial “What’s for dinner?” and saving me from getting take out, which we really didn’t have the budget for anyway.
Christy
How much flour? For the crust?
I must have missed it.
Sounds relish!
I missed it too. Did you find out how much flour???
Christy, this sounds so yummy. I can’t wait to try it. Thanks for sharing the recipe with us, and also, thanks for introducing me to Tamara Alexander and her new book. I have down-loaded it onto my Kindle (free! Yea!) and look forward to begin reading it later today. I am always glad to learn about Christian authors.
I pray God will continue to bless you in all you do!
That crust is so much easier than I have been making. I’ve used bisquick (added expense) so man this is gonna go on everything. You bad girl you…
This sounds like dinner tonight.
I know I wasn’t dropped on my head as a child, but bell peppers and mushrooms … really? Well, maybe I react because mushrooms give me a bad, bad, bad bathroom problem, and bell peppers make me wish for a mushroom.
If it wasn’t so hot here (no air conditioning) this would be in the oven right now.. So even though I often complain about all the rain, I’m wishing for rain now.
Christy,
I cannot wait to make this it sounds so so easy and good, it might just be our Sunday dinner. As always thank you for all you do for us. You always make me smile and I love reading your family stories.
I hope you get to try it soon Melanie!
OUTSTANDING!!!!
I am so glad to hear that you like it Heather!!
How much flour do I use? I must have missed it some how:( It didn’t print on the recipe either. Maybe I’m losing it but I really want to try this.
My bad, never mind. I found it up top with the meat ingredients. 1 C flour, whew, I thought I done lost it-lol. Can’t wait to try it tomorrow’1
I found this on Pinterest and every time I looked at the picturmoot made me crave more of a Mexican-ish flavor than Italian. I decided to put a Mexican cheese blend on the bottom, add taco seasoning and a small can of enchilada sauce to the meat, and I used the same crust recipe. It is divine! It’s like an upside down Mexican pizza/casserole! So good!
Great idea Andrea!!! Thank you so much for sharing your ideas!!
Oh my gosh. That’s supposed to say “every time I looked at the picture IT…” Not picturmoot. Sorry!
Thank you for posting this recipe!!!
I made a pizza similar to this for dinner last night and my twelve-year-old helped himself to thirds! Very huge hit in my family, and healthy even.
Your time was definitely not wasted in uploading this.
I love this stuff. I was convinced that the cheese on the bottom would not work out but it is great. A simple, easy, and cheap recipe which just suits me fine. I do think next time I will try adding a mix of Italian sausage with the hamburger for a zingier meat, the plain hamburger version is still very good .
you did’nt put how much flour to use in the recipe.
I used 1/4 cup dry oregano flakes. Ordering pizza now!
Can this be made in advance?
Would it be okay to use self-rising flour? Sounds good! Thanks
Does anyone know if you can freeze this?
I have never froze it myself April but I can see no reason why it wouldn’t work.
Hi, this sounds delicious however our family has had ground beef for dinner 3 nights in a row so…do you think this will be just as good if made with chicken instead?
I think it would turn out just fine. Let me know if you try it.
I made this tonight & my family loved it! I used ground beef & added pepperoni & mushrooms. Yummy!
Christy, I made the Deep Dish Pizza to take to our monthly Potluck tonight here on the Retirement Campus where we live. Our table was called last and by the time I got there, there was only one serving left. That one serving was very good and I will for sure be making it again. My husband thought it was good,too, so it is a keeper!