One Recipe, Two Meals: Pizza Rolls for the Kids and a Dressed-Up Pie for You
- Nonstick cooking spray, for the baking sheet
- 2 pounds prepared pizza dough
- All-purpose flour, for rolling
- 1 cup prepared pizza sauce (more if you need it!)
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh baby spinach, plus another cup whole leaves
- 8 ounces shredded mozzarella
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon extra-virgin olive oil
- One 8-ounce package mixed gourmet mushrooms (the package I buy contains trumpet, brown clamshell and velvet pioppini, but any mushroom you want to use is fine)
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 2 to 4 balls bocconcini (small fresh mozzarella balls)
- 2 slices prosciutto
- Small chunk Manchego cheese
- Basil leaves, for garnish
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray.
- If you have a pizza stone, put that in the oven, but leave a rack empty for baking the pizza rolls.
- Roll out 1 pound of the pizza dough 1/8-inch thick on a floured work surface.
- Using a pizza cutter, trim the edges to make a 12-inch square.
- Starting about 1 inch from the bottom, spread the pizza sauce in a thin line, from the left side to the right.
- Top with a sprinkling of chopped spinach and a small sprinkling of shredded mozzarella cheese.
- Starting from the bottom, roll the dough over the filling, and then roll one more half turn.
- Using a pizza cutter, slice off the completed roll, forming a long tube shape.
- Then slice the tube into 1 1/2-inch pieces; pinch the cut ends to seal, forming little rolls.
- Repeat the process with the remaining rolled out dough.
- You should be able to make about 22 rolls total.
- (You can freeze any leftover dough, or make some quick breadsticks.)
- Place the rolls about 1 1/2-inches apart on the baking sheet and brush the tops with some of the egg wash. Bake until golden brown on top, 13 to 16 minutes.
- (And the cheese might be seeping out on the sides, which means you've done something right in life.)
- While the pizza rolls bake, heat the butter and oil and in a medium skillet.
- Add the mushrooms and cook until tender, about 3 minutes.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Cut the remaining pound of pizza dough in half, and roll out each piece on a floured worked surface to make two roughly 8-to-10-inch rounds.
- Put the rounds on baking sheets, or use a pizza peel to build 1 pizza at a time if you are using a pizza stone.
- Divide and spread the remaining pizza sauce evenly over both crusts.
- Follow with an even scattering of mushrooms, the whole spinach leaves and the remaining shredded mozzarella.
- Tear the bocconcini into pieces and scatter them over the tops of the pizzas.
- Bake both pizzas on the baking sheet or 1 at a time on the stone, until the dough is cooked through and the cheese is browned and bubbly, 13 to 17 minutes.
- Top the pizzas with some torn prosciutto and basil leaves and good shavings of Manchego.
- Serve and inhale.
nonstick cooking spray, dough, flour, pizza sauce, baby spinach, mozzarella, egg, unsalted butter, extravirgin olive oil, mushrooms, kosher salt, mozzarella, manchego cheese, basil
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/one-recipe-two-meals-pizza-rolls-for-the-kids-and-a-dressed-up-pie-for-you.html (may not work)