Kenji's tavern style dough recipe as a baseline, but did not cure. Just rolled and baked, which I've found works best.

Cheese was a blend of part skim mozzarella, and whole milk mozzarella.

Sausage was mild Italian sausage from Aldi, which was surprisingly perfect.

Baked in a 500 degree oven, 10 minutes for the cheese, 12 minutes for the sausage.

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33 Comments

  1. Piratesfan02

    I tried his cure and wasn’t a fan. I’ll have to try this without it. Yours looks great!

  2. As a fellow Chicagoan South Sider and home pizza maker, that pie looks solid and familiar.

  3. timstantonx

    I agree. I don’t like curing. It makes an almost tortilla like texture that I don’t love. It is foolproof for getting crisp though.

  4. puddingcakeNY

    Cure the dough? Anyways, depending on the temperature I’d eat that in 8 minutes. Good job. I’ll take 2

  5. theBigDaddio

    I prefer the Kenji dough rolled and baked not dried out.i also dig on the Chicago thin, prefer it to most other pizzas.

  6. Brave_Mess_3155

    I’m Impressed. Looks like real parlor pizza. Chicago thin with sausage and garlic is my favorite. 

  7. Ghost_of_SnotBoogie

    Looks incredible. I wasn’t huge on thin crust, and had no idea about tavern style, til I moved to WI and my Chicago friends showed me the light. Consider me a prophet now.

  8. I’m not a fan of sausage on pizza but I would destroy that. Well made!

  9. Icy-Marionberry3146

    Reminds me of various bar pizzas I’ve had across Illinois growing up. We can’t get cracker thin like this in Dallas which is why I’ve resulted to making my own. Yours looks spot on.

  10. montyp2000

    The REAL Chicago style pizza. Looks delicious.

  11. Toni_Jabroni77

    Damn, how much pizza is Chicago claiming? Both the big thick shit and now thin too?

  12. chitowndude69

    Wow. Would it be too much to ask for a video of how you made that? Looks incredible.

  13. __Ocean__

    Damn……………………serve and respect.

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