Pizza Pot Pie

 

Ingredients:

• 1 (13.8-oz) can refrigerated pizza dough (or home made)
• 1 (15-oz) jar pizza sauce (or marinara)
• 12 slices mozzarella cheese 3 per pizza
• pizza toppings
• 2 Tbsp melted butter
• 1 tsp Italian seasoning
• cooking spray

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 425ºF.
• Remove pizza dough from the can and cut into 4 squares.
• Coat the bottom of ramekins or oven-safe bowl with cooking spray. Arrange three mozzarella slices in the bottom and around the sides of the ramekin making sure they overlap. Add pizza toppings.
• Ladle the sauce over the fillings just until the ramekin is almost full. Spray the outside of the ramekin with cooking spray, then stretch a round of dough across the top and let hang over the edge.
• Place ramekins on a baking sheet. Brush pizza dough with melted butter and sprinkle with Italian seasoning.
• Bake for 15 minutes until the dough is golden brown. Invert each pizza onto a plate and lift off the ramekin.

Mini Calzones

 Ingredients

• 2 teaspoons sugar

• 1 ⅓ cups warm water

• 1 packet active dry yeast (2 1/4 tsps)

• 3 tablespoons olive oil, divided

• 1 teaspoon baking powder

• ¼ cup grated parmesan cheese

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 3 ½ cups flour

• 2 cups tomato based sauce (pizza spaghetti or marinara sauce works)

• 3 cups shredded whole milk mozzarella cheese

• 1 cup fresh basil, chopped

Preparation

• Stir sugar into warm water in large bowl

• Sprinkle yeast over water and let sit 10 mins

• Stir in 2 Tblsps olive oil, baking powder, salt and parmesan

• Stir in flour until incorporated

• Knead the dough for 10 minutes then form into a ball

• Pour 1 tablespoon olive oil ove the ball and use ball to coat the bowl

• Cover and let rise for 2 hours in a warm area

• Flip dough onto a floured surface

• Cut the dough into 12 pieces and roll into balls (e.g. 2-inch balls)

• Roll each ball into 5 inch circles

• Spoon 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce, 3 tablespoons mozzarella, and 1 tablespoon basil into middle of each dough circle

• Fold the dough over the fillings and pinch edges together, then fold back

• Bake calzones at 400 for 15 mins

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