Homemade Pizza Rolls

I was messing around in the kitchen not long ago, trying to come up with a way to use an extra package of egg roll wrappers that I had taking up space in the fridge, when I stumbled upon something relatively low fat and super yummy :)


I just love these things...I buy them in the produce section at Super Wal-Mart.

I have always just used them to make egg rolls because I am not all that imaginative. But, if you look at the back of the packaging, they have some really creative uses for them. Anyway, I was looking for something to stuff in them that the monkeys would like when divine inspiration struck and I came upon the idea of stuffing them with pizza filling. What could be more monkey friendly?

So, does anyone want to make pizza rolls? I do and since this is my blog, here we go!!

Start out by browning one pound of turkey sausage.

Throw in some pepperoni that has been roughly chopped up. I put mine in a little food processor and gave them a quick whirl. Then I added about a 1/2 cup of pizza sauce and removed it from the heat. I then added about 4 ounces of skim milk shredded mozzarella cheese.

Now we are ready to wrap it all up. I just follow the directions on the cardboard insert in the egg roll wrapper package. It shows you step by step how to fold the wrappers. It is super easy.

Once you get them all wrapped up, dip your finger in some water and seal the seam up. See, piece of cake (or pizza roll!)

Now we have two different ways to go here. You can deep fry them or bake them. The monkeys are not fond of them when they are fried because they are just too greasy. We prefer ours baked. Just preheat the oven to 400 degrees and spray a cookie sheet with nonstick spray. Line your pizza rolls up and then spray the top of them with the cooking spray (just a light little spritz). Bake for 10 minutes and then turn your broiler on and let them sit under the broiler for about a minute. Watch them closely because it would stink to get this far and then burn them.



The monkeys love these. They tear through them like bananas! I haven't sat down and worked out the nutrition information because frankly, I just don't have that kind of time but they can't be too bad as they are made with turkey sausage and turkey pepperoni, and low fat mozzarella.


Come over sometime and I'll fix you some!!!