Learn how to make this deep dish pizza – your family will be glad you did!
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, and mozzarella. For the crust, you’ll need: flour, eggs, oil, milk, and a bit of salt.
But really, you can add in whatever pizza toppings you like. I tend to keep mine pretty basic because my precious family has no imagination, despite a collective twenty years of effort on my part to change that. However, I will tell you that even basic, this recipe is absolutely delicious and deeply satisfying. The original recipe called 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.
In a large skillet brown your beef and chopped onion. After that, drain any grease and add any other pizza ingredients you typically enjoy or just keep it as is, like I do. 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! Pour in your pizza sauce and stir.
Spray a 9×13 inch pan with baking spray. Sprinkle Mozzarella cheese over the bottom of the pan. Spread meat mixture over the mozzarella.
Mix up crust: In a medium bowl place milk, flour, eggs, oil, and salt. Stir until well combined and no lumps remain. Pour over meat in baking dish and sprinkle top with parmesan.
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 :).
Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 2 pounds ground beef or a mixture of ground beef and sausage
- 1 med onion chopped
- 1 bell pepper chopped (I omit due to picky family)
- 15 ounce jar pizza sauce
- 1-2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
- 2 cups mozzarella I've replaced with cheddar before
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 Cup Parmesan Parmesan is not as easy to spell as one might think...
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Brown ground beef, onion, and bell pepper. Drain well. Add pizza sauce and Italian Seasoning. 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 flour, milk, eggs, oil, and salt. Stir until well mixed and no lumps remain. 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.
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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!
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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 :o)
You are so very welcome! I know just what you mean about your sweet baby. My sweet baby is nine now :).
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.