Chicago Deep Dish Pizza

[Jigfishn10]

Must that time of year, but my family requested deep dish pizza. 

Usually I make sausage pepper onion and a all veg for my daughter. I'm looking for something different for the sausage one. What are some of your favorite deep dish fillings?

[bulldog1935]

kalamata olives, cremini mushrooms are mandatory, prosciutto, any number of Italian meats, calabrese, mordetta.

 

I forgot to add - we put jalapenos on everything here, including pizza. 

Edited December 8, 2021 by bulldog1935

[gim]

Can't stand the chicago style pizza with the sauce on top.  Only in a city like chicago would they consider that to be acceptable.  The cheese should always be on top.

 

That being said, @bulldog1935 has some really good suggestions for ingredients.

[Jigfishn10]

51 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Can't stand the chicago style pizza with the sauce on top.  Only in a city like chicago would they consider that to be acceptable.  The cheese should always be on top.

 

That being said, @bulldog1935 has some really good suggestions for ingredients.

 

It doesn't have to be upside down...?

I know what you mean though. Chicago Deep Dish IMO is one of those that you either love or hate...No tweener ?

[gim]

Really I'm just looking for more reasons to dislike Chicago.  As if we needed more though.

[MN Fisher]

11 minutes ago, gimruis said:

Really I'm just looking for more reasons to dislike Chicago.  As if we needed more though.

There are (or at least were) some good things there. I spent a week there for my job - training in the new software I was going to support. Stayed in a hotel on the edge of Printers Row, they had some of the best jazz clubs within short walking distance.

 

Course this was back in the 90s...so things probably have changed since then.

[Deephaven]

Chicago style screams: Sausage, sausage or sausage.  Lou Malnati's sheet style preferred.

[slonezp]

1 hour ago, Deephaven said:

Chicago style screams: Sausage, sausage or sausage.  Lou Malnati's sheet style preferred.

Lou's has a carb free pizza. The crust is made of sausage. 

[VolFan]

If we’re going full sacrilege here - put Brie in the bottom, top it with halved figs and prosciutto. Use a spicy sweet tomato sauce somewhat sparingly.

[slonezp]

Here in Chicago we have a slew of pizza joints. Restaurants have deep dish, thin crust, or stuffed. Deep dish and stuffed are cut into triangles, and thin crust cut into squares. There are a lot of good pizza joints here, only a few great ones. Lou's, Uno's, and Due's  are the Chicago deep dish classics. My favorite pizza joint was Riggio's. The owners kids sold after he died, 5 years ago. I grew up on thin crust which is blasphemous in Chicago. 

My mom and dad went on their first date at Due's.

Lots'a weird related pizza **** in my life

I no longer have a favorite pizza only pizza I prefer