Pizza Rolls

These are a fun variation for pizza night! :) You just pull these apart and dip in marinara sauce. Inside each roll, there is a center that is warm and oozing with pizza toppings. They are delicious and the kids have fun dipping them. There is no pizza sauce in each roll which is nice. Unlike your traditional pizza rolls, the sauce wont scald the inside of your mouth. Plus, we have some "anti-pizza sauce" people at our house, so this was perfect! We did the pepperoni, green pepper version. I will definitely be making these again and trying a variety of fillings. Enjoy!

Pizza Rolls

Printable Version

Ingredients:
frozen rolls or homemade pizza dough

Pizza sauce
Shredded cheese of choice

Any meat/veggie pizza toppings of choice, diced small
(We mainly do pepperoni (cut into 1/4ths) &cheese and plain cheese)

Defrost frozen roll dough for about an hour. It should be cold but soft. Flatten each roll. First put a light smear of pizza sauce in the center of the roll. (Don't get the sauce on the edges or it wont want to seal) Next, layer the shredded cheese or any diced small topping that will have a tendency to fallout. Finally, press a few quarters of pepperoni to hold cheese in place and wrap the rest of the roll around the toppings. Pinch to seal edges. The more toppings you use, the harder it gets to tuck them all within the dough. Now place seam side down in a lightly greased casserole dish or glass baking dish. Brush with olive oil and sprinkle generously with garlic salt and Italian seasoning. (oregano, basil and thyme, etc) Bake in a 400 degree oven until rolls are light brown (12-15min). Watch carefully. Serve with your favorite marinara sauce for dipping.


Recipe by SistersCafe

Pesto Pizza with Pine Nuts and Feta

Pesto Pizza with Pine Nuts and Feta
Printable Version

1 batch pizza dough (I used our Pizza Hut Pizza Dough recipe)
1 1/2 cups shredded chicken
Pesto
4 oz feta cheese
1/2 red onion, cut in slivers
1-2 large tomatoes sliced (I used grape tomatoes cut in half)
Shredded mozzarella (to your liking)
Toasted pine nuts (to your liking)

Put cold stone in cold oven and preheat oven to 475 degrees. I preheated my pizza stone for about 30 min until the stone is nice and hot. This gives your crust a nice crispy, restaurant-like quality. Roll out prepared pizza dough and place on pizza peel (see picture below) or on pizza pan if you aren't baking it on a pizza stone.

Top pizza dough with the pesto, spreading to outer edges of dough. (I put my pesto on thin otherwise I think it gets too greasy) Layer on additional toppings to your liking (I like to reserve some of the toppings and put them on top of the final layer of cheese) and bake for 8-10 minutes until nicely browned.

I didn't know what a pizza peel was until today. Here is what a pizza peel looks like:

I don't own a pizza peel and wished I had one as I tried to transfer my pizza to the hot stone without one :( I must get one soon.

Recipe by My Kitchen Cafe

Pizza Hut Pizza Dough

Pizza Hut Pizza Dough
Printable Version

3/4 c warm water
1 1/4 t yeast
1 T sugar
2 1/4 c flour
1 1/2 t salt
1 1/2 T olive oil

Combine water, yeast & sugar. Let sit 5 min. Add flour, salt & oil. Knead. Let sit 10 minutes. Coat with oil and cover tightly. Let rise 2 hours, or until double. Use or refridgerate. If you have time, I highly recommend refridgerating over night. Bake pizza at 475° for 12-16 minutes.

Pinch string cheese around the edge of pizza for stuffed crust pizza. Lay string cheese along the edge and pull dough up and around string cheese, pressing dough into itself.

Brush crust with garlic butter after baking for added deliciousness.

Recipe makes 1 crust