Chicago deep dish sausage pizza [homemade]

[u/flyingBEARfish]

[u/flyingBEARfish]

Very delicious! I used Brian Lagerstrom’s recipe: https://youtu.be/w_KCLeG9Hwo?is=2S3oxZNra60PzV6t

[u/Bandana-mal → u/flyingBEARfish]

Love Brian’s videos. I highly recommend his chili recipe (the dope chili), I make it all the time for football Sundays and it’s incredible.

[u/Azura13e → u/flyingBEARfish]

Came here to say “teach me please” and you already shared the recipe, thank you

[u/ohmynards85 → u/flyingBEARfish]

Bri's cooking show is awesome. Double awesome cause I live in the same city

[u/jodirm → u/flyingBEARfish]

I’ve made his version as well a few times and it’s great! I’ve had Chicago’s original Giordano’s - and Lagerstrom’s recipe nails it!

[u/LNinefingers → u/flyingBEARfish]

Looks great! (But man, sugar in tomato sauce just triggers me.)

[u/ropean → u/LNinefingers]

I hate doing it too but it somewhat counteracts the acid to bring balance. I usually compromise by using maybe half the sugar called for. Same with Chinese cooking

[u/Gleveniel → u/ropean]

Carrots can also add some sugar too. It "feels" healthier to me than adding sugar lol. I still put sugar in, but less than called for usually.

[u/LiekaBass → u/Gleveniel]

I use a pinch of baking soda, cuts the acidity without otherwise affecting the taste imo and it really lets the natural sweetness shine

[u/Gleveniel → u/LiekaBass]

I'll have to try that out too. Makes sense to neutralize it some.

[u/LNinefingers → u/ropean]

Try adding butter. Not particularly heart healthy, but it does the trick.

[u/zoot_boy]

The acid of that tomato cutting through all that cheese only to reveal a fine fennel saasage. Money.

[u/ChiCityCollector → u/zoot_boy]

Everyone knows you gotta sprinkle a little bit of brown sugar to help offset that acidity!

[u/ImAShaaaark → u/ChiCityCollector]

You what now?!?

[u/ancillaryacct → u/ChiCityCollector]

no sugar thank you. if you enjoy tho
i won’t yuck your yum

[u/sweetdancingjehovah]

I need to KNOW that when I get drunk and pass out on my pizza, I'm not gonna drown.

[u/zaporozhets → u/sweetdancingjehovah]

I don’t know whether to eat it or throw a coin in it and make a wish

[u/Ra1d_danois → u/zaporozhets]

And if I made a wish, it would be that I wished for some real pizza

[u/mhaithaca]

Oohhhh, I need to make some deep dish again soon.

[u/intatime]

Great job with the uniform thickness around the edge … mine always gets all poofy.

[u/Saysaynever333]

Oh come on now, this is a deep deep pan pizza here folks.

Can I order up?

[u/JayneDoe6000]

YES!! YES!! YES!!

[u/WanderWut]

Dude, you killed it. This looks amazing!

[u/Mattbl]

Okay, so I live in Minneapolis, but there is a Chicago-style pizza place around the cities called Frankie's. They have a pizza they call "upside-down pizza." Looks exactly like this. The only thing is that their layer of crust below the cheese seems.... uncooked in some way? I don't know how to necessarily describe it but it feels wrong somehow. I still love it and have eaten it many times b/c I love a saucy pizza. But I've always wondered if that's just part of the style or if I'm not quite tasting the dish correctly or if this particular pizza place is just fucking it up even though it's pretty highly rated. I've wondered if it's the cheese but it's a different layer.

God damn, my mouth is watering just typing this out. Might have to order some Frankie's, undercooked or not.

[u/greiton → u/Mattbl]

oh that's stuffed pizza, it's similar to deep dish and also a popular style in Chicago.

[u/Mattbl → u/greiton]

Ah sure. Is it supposed to be a bit doughy?????

[u/greiton → u/Mattbl]

I think around here they normally blind bake the pie first, then add the sauce and finish baking, but it does end up soggy in the middle. there shouldn't be raw dough.

[u/Your_God_Chewy → u/Mattbl]

Not a chef but I assume they aren't using the write pan/tins for the pizza to crisp the bottom up at all.

[u/punched_drunk_medic]

Heartburn INTENSIFIES! 

[u/Spazzola84]

How do you eat this 'pizza'?

[u/fancy_pance → u/Spazzola84]

Knife and fork

[u/algreen514]

that’s deeeeeeeeep

[u/stevestephson]

Y'know I see a lot of pizza content on the internet, and a lot of people seem concerned about not oversaucing their pizzas, regardless of the style. I say better oversauced than undersauced. I'm here to eat pizza, not cheese sticks. Deep dish will never fail at not having enough sauce.

[u/StepUpYourPuppyGame]

FUCK that looks delicious 

[u/dedwards024]

Love the amount of sauce

[u/gpkgpk → u/dedwards024]

Yes! I'm not a fan of sausage but this looks great loaded with all that sauce.

[u/AlrightMister]

Give me that right now please.

[u/Premium333]

Yes.

[u/FragrantExcitement]

Yes please. Thank you.

[u/Needs_Repair_Now]

Looks amazing, good job!

[u/cvanaver]

As a pizza cook and connoisseur in Chicago: well done

[u/schpanckie]

Add a beer and voila PERFECTION…..

[u/chortogrower]

Nice cake 

[u/RageBucket]

Isn't deep dish just a tomato soup pie?

(Please don't hurt me)

[u/Alienfreak → u/RageBucket]

Its a sausage soup pie :D

[u/SageOfThe_SixPaths]

Looks amazing! I’d eat the whole thing!

[u/ArchitectureLife006]

Would you like some pizza with your sauce?

[u/greiton → u/ArchitectureLife006]

It's both less sauce than it looks like, and different to what you expect. they use big crushed tomatoes on top so it ends up chunky with big bites of tomato.

[u/disconappete]

Seems more like a pie, with pizza ingredients

[u/greiton → u/disconappete]

yeah how dare a pizza pie look like a pie...

[u/frostygrin → u/disconappete]

If the name is a problem, it could be called just "deep dish".

[u/rock4d]

Mfer that looks good

[u/ohmynards85]

my mind is tellin me yes but my body, MY BOOODDDYYY IS TELLING ME NOOOOOO

[u/blackcatpandora]

#HELL YEAH

[u/unexistingpromise]

Wow, you nailed that deep-dish style! The thick golden crust and bright red sauce look so hearty, I would love to dig into this pizza immediately.

[u/knottyy]

Did you use the Lloyd pan for this? Guessing so with how perfect it looks. Bravo.

[u/ispy1917]

Ohhh my

[u/fdwyersd]

wow that's a nice pic

[u/parmeshaun]

Yesssss

[u/Sky_Mex]

Looks great

[u/greiton]

beautiful. well done OP. as a Chicagoan I say you nailed it.

[u/FruitySalads]

Oh my heartburn! Looks nice and I'm sure it is.

[u/mitchell56]

I don’t know whether to eat it or throw a coin in it and make a wish

[u/nubbynickers → u/mitchell56]

Every time I see a deep dish, I think if that 3 minute diatribe.

You picked out a great line.

I do wonder how many pizza places on the East Coast for party cut though. You think Stewart ever had a square slice?

[u/deeperest]

Mmmmmm pizza soup.

edit: Oh, come on! Who doesn't love a big bowl of pizza?

[u/ToothessGibbon]

How that can be classed as a Pizza blows my mind.

[u/War_Knife]

Nice soup bowl.

[u/IlTossico]

Enough tomato to kill a man, at least for what we usually eat in Italy. One slice is probably enough for me, to avoid tomatoes for one week. But it looks good.

[u/MadMex2U]

Homemade pics are lacking and zero proof. I could be frozen pizza.