Any time I’ve brought these yummy, saucy, cheesy pizza balls to a party they were an instant hit. They are filled with flavor and make a great hand held snack for th wanderers in the crowd.
Cheesy, Saucy Pizza Ball Snacks
Cheese, Pepperoni and sauce all wrapped up in a delicious pizza dough, air fryed to delicious perfection.
Ingredients
12 oz Pizza dough
Pizza sauce
Shredded mozzarella cheese
Pepperoni, sliced thin
Flour Glue (In small bowl mix 5 parts water to 3 parts flour - mix well, till a smooth thin paste is formed) This will be your binder.
Olive oil, for brushing balls with
Sesame seeds
Everything bagel mix
Directions
- Let pizza dough rise in covered bowl at room temperature till double in size.
- Stretch out the dough on lightly floured surface to a 12x 8 rectangle. Cut into 8 even squares (about 1.8 ounces each.
- Cover with parchment paper and a kitchen towel. Let rest 20 minutes.
- Stretch each square gently into 4x4 squares. Work one square at a time, keeping the other squares covered.
- Apply thin line of flour glue on all edges of square.
- In the middle of the dough square, place 1 TB sauce, and on top of that, 1 TB cheese and then 3 slices pepperoni on top of the cheese. Top pepperonis with a little more cheese.
- To form a ball, gently pull one side of dough over half the ingredients, and then pull the opposite side of the dough oven the rest of the ingredients , overlapping the first side. Pinch the other two ends closed. Place a small amount of flour glue on each pinched end and pull to the middle. All of the inside ingredients should be covered by dough at this point. Gently roll your ball on a floured surface forming into a ball.
- Repeat step 7 with the rest of the squares until you have 8 pizza balls. Place on a parchment paper lined tray and place in the freezer.
- Preheat air fryer to 390 degrees Fahrenheit.
- When air fryer is done preheating, working in batches, place your pizza dough balls in the air fryer with a little space between each ball.
- Brush each dough ball with olive oil and sprinkle sesame seeds and everything bagel mix over them.
- Cook for 5 minutes, turn over and cook 5 more minutes, or until a golden color.
- Let cool and serve with ranch dressing or Marinar sauce.
Notes
- These can be made ahead of time and frozen in a freezer safe container for up to 3 months. On the day of the party, you can reheat them in the air fryer for about 5 minutes.