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Cheap and healthy! Make a speedy dinner starting with purchased pizza dough. Make extra and freeze for dinner on the run.

FREEZER FRIENDLY PIZZA POCKETS

Patti Diamond
Cheaper than take-out, healthier than frozen; homemade pizza pockets (AKA calzones) make a speedy dinner especially when you start with pizza dough from the dairy case. Make extra and freeze for a speedy dinner on the run.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Dinner, Lunch, Meal Prep, Snack
Cuisine American, Italian/American
Servings 4 pizza pockets

Ingredients
  

  • 1 13.8 oz. to 16 oz. prepared pizza dough or homemade equivalent
  • ½ cup Petite Portion Pizza Sauce recipe below
  • ½ cup ricotta or Mock-Ricotta recipe below
  • cups mozzarella shredded
  • 1 3 oz. package pepperoni sliced
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon parmesan grated

Petite Portion Pizza Sauce

  • 1 8 oz. can of tomato sauce
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
  • 1 teaspoon garlic powder

Mock-Ricotta

  • ½ cup cottage cheese 4% fat
  • teaspoon garlic powder
  • teaspoon Italian seasoning
  • teaspoon kosher salt

Instructions
 

  • If you're making the pizza sauce and the mock-ricotta, do that before starting the instructions for the pizza pockets.
  • Preheat oven to 425°F. Place parchment paper on your work surface the size of your baking sheet.
  • On parchment, roll pizza dough very thin. Divide into four portions.
    Cheap and healthy! Make a speedy dinner starting with purchased pizza dough. Make extra and freeze for dinner on the run.
  • Leaving a 1-inch gap around all edges, off center, on one side of each piece spread 1 tablespoon pizza sauce.
    Cheap and healthy! Make a speedy dinner starting with purchased pizza dough. Make extra and freeze for dinner on the run.
  • Add 2 tablespoons Mock-Ricotta, a generous ¼ cup mozzarella and some pepperoni.
    Cheap and healthy! Make a speedy dinner starting with purchased pizza dough. Make extra and freeze for dinner on the run.
  • In a small bowl, beat the egg with a teaspoon water to make egg wash. Brush outer edges of dough with egg wash.
    Cheap and healthy! Make a speedy dinner starting with purchased pizza dough. Make extra and freeze for dinner on the run.
  • Fold the empty half of the dough over filling and press to seal. Fold the edges of the dough over and pinch to further seal the dough.
    Cheap and healthy! Make a speedy dinner starting with purchased pizza dough. Make extra and freeze for dinner on the run.
  • Brush the tops of the calzones with egg wash and sprinkle each with parmesan.
    Cheap and healthy! Make a speedy dinner starting with purchased pizza dough. Make extra and freeze for dinner on the run.
  • Cut a few small slits in the top of the calzones to release steam.
  • Slide the parchment onto the baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Serve immediately or cool completely, wrap individually and freeze up to 3 months. Reheat in the microwave or in the oven.

For the Petite Portion Pizza Sauce

  • Drain the tomato sauce through a coffee filter set in a strainer over a bowl for 15 minutes to remove excess liquid from the sauce.  
    Cheap and healthy! Make a speedy dinner starting with purchased pizza dough. Make extra and freeze for dinner on the run.
  • Mix the drained sauce with the sugar, garlic powder, and Italian seasoning.

For the Mock-Ricotta

  • In a small food processor or by hand - blend cottage cheese (not low fat, the texture is different) with the garlic powder, Italian seasoning and salt.
    Cheap and healthy! Make a speedy dinner starting with purchased pizza dough. Make extra and freeze for dinner on the run.
  • This is easily doubled or quadrupled to be used on pizzas or in lasagna.
Keyword Freezer Friendly, Kids in the Kitchen, Pizzas and Flatbreads
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