#1,606: Pizza Buns

This recipe was actually supposed to be a little more complicated made with freshly made pizza dough, but who has time for that?!?!  So to get this recipe on the table a little (or a lot) faster, I bought the tube of pizza dough at the grocery store.  Yes, I know that this makes this less healthy and more processed, but sometimes, I just have to get dinner on the table and kids fed much quicker than making my own dough.

So...I rolled out the tube pizza dough, and cut it into 10 rectangles (pieces).  Then I added the remaining ingredients and rolled it all up.  I placed it on a lightly greased cookie sheet (with the seam side down), brushed the tops with a little olive oil and sprinkled on some parmesan cheese and popped it in the oven.  I baked in a 350 degree oven for about 20 minutes.  My family devoured these and asked me to make them again the next day.  Success!  I think my girls would love these in their lunches too!!

Here are the instructions for the homemade dough recipe.  If you plan on using store bought dough…skip down in the instruction a little.

Homemade Dough:
1½ cups warm water
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp yeast
½ tsp salt
3-4½ cups flour

In a bowl combine water, sugar and yeast. Let stand for about 10 minutes.  Add salt. Stir. Add half your flour and mix well. Gradually add more flour until dough pulls away from edges of the bowl when mixing and it isn’t sticky.  Place dough in a lightly greased bowl, cover and let rise for 45 minutes or until double in size. Remove dough from bowl. Separate into three equal parts.

Prepare your pizza ingredients (sausage, cheese, pizza sauce, veggies, etc.)

Take one portion of the dough and roll out on a lightly greased or floured surface. Roll dough into a long skinny rectangle as you would for cinnamon rolls. Once your dough is rolled, you can begin layering your pizza ingredients starting with the sauce. Spread sauce over the dough leaving the very edge of one of the long sides of the rectangle free from sauce so the edge will seal when rolled up. Layer meat, cheese and any other pizza toppings you’d like.

After all your pizza toppings have been added, begin rolling up the dough starting at the long side of the rectangle where the sauce is all the way to the edge – you want to leave that sauce free edge to be rolled up last. Roll all the way up and then pinch the edges to seal. 

Place rolls in a greased baking dish.  Cover and allow buns to rise 30 minutes. Bake in the oven at 350 for 25 – 30 minutes or until golden brown.