Pizza Pockets

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.

To make the dough:

Dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Add olive oil, then the flour and salt. Mix together with a dough hook (or by hand) at medium speed until well incorporated. Set aside.

Prepare your fillings:

I like to chop up pretty much whatever veggies I have on hand. Green peppers, mushrooms, olives, or whatever you like on your pizza.

Chop up your meat. I usually use deli meat, but you could cook up a chicken breast and chop that up too – really, you can use whatever kind of meat you have on hand.

Prepare your pizza sauce. I tend to just add spices to a can of tomato sauce, but you could also just use a can of pizza sauce.

All of the filling prep should take about 10 minutes, which is exactly how long you need to let the dough sit for.

Take your dough out and knead it 10-15 times. Divide it into 6 peices. Take one peice, shape it into a ball, and then roll it out nice and thin (thin enough that you can fit the fillings in, but not so thin that it will just split open.)

Spoon on some pasta sauce, then some meat, peppers, and top with some cheese.

Pick up the dough on two sides and pinch together.

Do the same with the other two sides.

Then take the 4 “open” corners and pinch them up too.

Make sure it’s all pinched together really well so it won’t break open while cooking.

Do the same with the remaining 5 pieces of dough. Place on cookie sheet (lining it with parchment paper would make for much easier clean up then I had).

Bake at 325 F for approximately 30 minutes. I kept peeking in at mine every 5 minutes after the initial 15 minutes, just to keep an eye on it. When the top is golden brown, they are ready!

*If you would like to see step-by-step photos of the folding up process, you can click on the related link which takes you to my blog.