Chicago pizza recipe

This Chicago-Style Deep Dish Pizza is the real deal! A thick, flaky crust filled with gooey cheese, your favorite toppings, and a bold, zesty tomato sauce.

Learn what deep dish pizza is and how to make authentic Chicago style pizza at home, including the best dough recipe, what kind of pan to use and how to layer the toppings. Plus, get our best tips for reheating leftover deep dish pizza.

This recipe walks you through making the iconic deep-dish pizza, known for its thick, buttery crust, inverted layers of cheese, toppings, and a chunky tomato sauce. It's a filling and satisfying take on pizza.

Here's a Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza recipe you can make at home. Try this easy, detailed recipe with step-by-step directions for a thick and buttery, flaky crust and a rich, chunky tomato sauce, with plenty of gooey cheese.

Our Chicago deep dish pizza recipe makes two beautiful pies stuffed with mouth-watering mozzarella and any of your other favorite toppings. For the best results, be sure to carefully read the entire recipe before starting the cooking process. If you plan to make both pizzas at the same time, you will need 2 deep dish 9-by-2-inch round cake pans or 9-inch springform pans.

This Chicago Deep Dish Pizza is without a doubt, the best in the world! With it's flaky, buttery deep dish crust, layers of ooey gooey cheeses and customizable toppings, and a thick layer of the most flavourful tomato sauce — no other pizza compares!

Make the best Chicago-style deep dish pizza at home. If the thick, buttery crust doesn’t win you over the layers of gooey cheese, sausage and a sweet and spicy red sauce will surely have you craving seconds.

My husband and I tried to duplicate the deep-dish pizza recipe from a popular restaurant, and I think our Chicago-style deep-dish pizza turned out even better. The secret is baking it in a cast-iron skillet! —Lynn Hamilton, Naperville, Illinois

Experience the enchantment of Chicago-style cuisine with this Homemade Chicago Style Deep Dish Pizza. Created from scratch using a combination of a crispy crust infused with cornmeal, a sauce bursting with flavors and layers of irresistibly melted cheese this pizza goes beyond being just a meal—it's an unforgettable culinary journey. Adorned with pepperoni and perfectly crispy bacon each mouthwatering bite transports you straight to the atmosphere of a bustling Chicago pizzeria transforming…

Chicago-style deep dish pizza had already been popular for 31 years when Giordano’s arrived in town in 1974. Italian immigrants Efren and Joseph Boglio adapted their mother’s Italian Easter Pie and created a deep dish pizza with lots of melted mozzarella baked between two layers of flakey dough. Through decades of hard work, the brothers made Mama Giordano’s secret recipe a Chicago favorite, and Giordano’s restaurants multiplied to over 70 stores in Illinois and around the U.S. To make a…