Skip to content
Short OrderGet early access
Two square slices of Detroit-style pan pizza on a plate: thick airy crust with dark crisp cheese edges, browned crumbled fennel sausage and two stripes of red tomato sauce on top (AI-generated photo)

Takeout remakes · Pizzeria

Detroit-Style Sausage Pan Pizza

Crisp-edged square pizza with fennel turkey sausage.

50 min total20 min activeMakes 4 squares
Method in Pro

Detroit pizza is baked in a rectangular pan with cheese pushed right to the edges, so it fries into a lacy, crunchy crust. Homemade fennel turkey sausage keeps the topping meaty without the salt of store-bought links. The sauce goes on in stripes after baking, the Detroit way.

Ingredients

For 4 squares.

Crust

  • 1 lb pizza dough, at room temperature
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil

Fennel turkey sausage

  • 1 lb 93% lean ground turkey
  • 1 teaspoon fennel seeds, crushed
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
  • 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika

Cheese and sauce

  • 8 oz part-skim mozzarella, cut into small cubes
  • 1 cup crushed tomatoes
  • 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
  • 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan

Method

  1. Oil a 9-by-13-inch metal pan. Press the dough into it, cover and let it relax 20 minutes, then press it into the corners.

  2. Meanwhile, heat the oven to 500°F. Cook the turkey with the fennel, garlic, pepper flakes and paprika in a skillet over medium-high heat for 6 to 7 minutes, breaking it up, until browned and 165°F.

    165°F inside

The rest of the method is in Short Order Pro

4 more steps, with cook mode and timers, in the app. Ingredients, nutrition and cost stay free on every dish, and 20 dishes include the full method for free.

See the free dishes

Tips

  • Let the dough rest in the oiled pan until it stretches into the corners without springing back.
  • Use a dark metal pan if you have one; it browns the crust best.

Food photo is AI-generated to show the finished dish. Recipe written with AI and checked by our QA process; nutrition computed from USDA data.

More takeout remakes

Cook it with timers

Short Order is coming soon to iPhone, with cook mode, prep sessions and the full method for every dish in Pro.

One email when Short Order is on the App Store. Unsubscribe anytime. Privacy