Sunday, 2 November 2014
Pizza Pockets in 5 Minutes!
My children love Pizza - don't all kids though? If I'm being honest, so does my husband. These pizza pockets are fast, delicious and has much less fat than a "real pizza" or pre-packaged commercially made pizza pockets you find in the freezer section of your grocery store.
With only a handful of basic ingredients that you probably already have on hand, these can be created in mere minutes. Use extra or alternative fillings to what your family prefers or what you have on hand. Such ingredients might include: mushrooms, capsicums (peppers), onions, salami, olives or any other pizza fillings that's your favourite.
I make my own basic pizza sauce (recipe is included) but if you have a bottle of opened pasta sauce (Napoli/Marinara) that would work a treat too. This recipe makes 4 pizza pockets, I slice each into 3, yielding 12 slices.
Recipe:
2/3 cup tomato paste
1/4 cup water
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
14 teaspoon garlic powder
8 slices of ham (I like the shaved ham as it heats through faster)
1 1/3 cup mozzarella cheese
4 flatbreads, lavish breads, pita bread or tortillas
In a medium sized bowl, combine the tomato paste and the herbs. Stir well to combine to make a super fast pizza sauce.
Lay the 4 breads out and divvy up the pizza sauce equally between them. Spread the sauce only over the bottom half of the flatbreads.
Lay the ham and cheese over the top. Fold each in half awaiting cooking.
Heat your sandwich press (you could use a frypan, flipping the pizza pocket to cook each side) lay the pizza pocket on the press and pull down the top.
Cook until the button turns green or red (to indicate that the pizza pocket is cooked) OR you can hear the slight sizzle of cheese melting.
Use a spatula to remove from the sandwich press and add the next one and repeat the process.
Cut each hot pizza pocket into 3 and enjoy.
Caution - these babies are hot! Melted cheese can burn mouths.
Happy Cooking!
Elizabeth x
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