Easy Homemade Pizza Pockets
These Easy Homemade Pizza Pockets are warm, cheesy and simple to make. Customize them to suit your own personal tastes! EVERYONE loves them!
Servings: 24 Homemade Pizza Pockets
Calories: 79kcal
Cost: 4.87
Ingredients
- 1 ball pizza dough (Note 1)
- 12 slices pepperoni cut into quarters (Note 2)
- 1-2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded (Note 3)
- pizza sauce
- olive oil
- garlic powder
- Italian seasoning
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Roll out the dough into a fairly thin but large square or rectangle and use a sharp knife to cut it into squares. I was able to make 24 squares with one batch of our dough.
- Put your filling in the centre of a square. (Note 4)
- Fold two opposite corners up and pinch them together. (See photos above for demonstration.)
- Fold the other two corners up so you are holding all the corners bunched in your fingers and the pizza pocket forms a ball.
- Use your fingers to press all the seams together so the dough is sealed.
- Lay them seam-side down on a greased cookie sheet. Brush with olive oil and sprinkle with garlic powder and Italian seasoning. (Note 5)
- Bake for 15 minutes, or until dough is firm and bottoms are slightly browned. Broil for 1-2 minutes if you'd like to brown the tops slightly.
- Some of them might leak a bit of filling but there should still be plenty inside.Enoy! :)
Notes
- If you want to make homemade dough, check out our recipe for soft, fluffy dough: Simple Pizza Dough - Two Ways: Easy and Easier!
You can also opt to use store-bought dough to save time! - You can easily make these vegetarian or use other fillings (see suggestions below).
- Don't use the pre-shredded cheese in the bags - it is coated with an anti-clumping agent that stops it from melting very well.
- Don't overstuff it because you need a fair amount of dough around it to fold together AND the dough should not be moist from pizza sauce.
- If you would prefer your tops brown and shiny, whisk 1 egg with 1 tablespoon of water and brush the tops with it instead of the olive oil.
Other filling ideas:
– broccoli/mushrooms/onions/peppers/mozzarella (vegetarian) – 3 cheese (I like cheddar, feta and gruyere, but almost any cheese will work!) (vegetarian) – ham/pineapple/onion/mozzarella (Hawaiian) (blot pineapple dry) – sausage/onion/bacon/pepper/olive/mozzarella (deluxe pizza) – chicken/hot sauce/mozzarella (buffalo chicken)– alfredo sauce/ham/cheese/broccoli (YUM) – roast beef/horseradish/swiss (YUM) – taco meat/sour cream/ hot sauce/cheddar cheese (taco-inspired) – steak/peppers/garlic butter/provolone (steak sandwich)
Nutrition
Calories: 79kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 3g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 328mg | Potassium: 104mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 171IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 41mg | Iron: 1mg