Pizza at home, even the frozen stuff, can be pretty tasty. You can elevate frozen pizzas with some budget-friendly hacks, although there are some frozen pizzas you should avoid at the grocery store. You can brush garlic butter on frozen crust to up the flavor, when you have a little time to design a full homemade pizza, but not the time for watching the dough rise for hours. Pizza rolls, on the other hand, make a tasty handheld snack that can be easily grabbed and munched one at a time. Sure, you can garlic parm your frozen pizza rolls for extra tastiness, but with the right ingredients, it’s not that hard to create wholly homemade pizza rolls with store-bought egg roll or wonton wrappers.
The beauty of these homemade pizza rolls is that, once you have all ingredients laid out, they can be ready even faster than a frozen pizza — with only 3 to 4 minutes cooking time fried in oil or the air fryer (a bit longer baked). Store-bought wonton or egg roll wrappers are the perfect ingredient for your pizza rolls because they end up beautifully crispy and crunchy, much fresher and handcrafted, rather than flat and soggy. It’s a pizza roll hack that’s nothing short of genius.
How to make homemade pizza rolls with store-bought ingredients
These homemade pizza rolls are ideal for classic pepperoni, cheese, and red sauce, but you can add pretty much any ingredient you like on a regular pizza. Just be careful not to overfill them so they expand too much and leak. Similarly, it’s good to go light on vegetable ingredients that sweat, like bell peppers, fresh tomatoes, and onions, and low moisture, low fat mozzarella is always best because it gets chewy and stretchy, rather than moist and soupy when heated. When sealed properly, a smear of good, thick store-bought pizza sauce will hold up nicely, or adjust your pasta sauce for pizza.
Simply roll out your wonton or egg roll wrappers, add ingredients in the center, fold in the two edges and bottom, then roll that package up to the remaining point. You can simply seal with a thumb and forefinger pinch or add a brush of beaten egg. Fried in oil or the air fryer, they’ll cook at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 3 to 4 minutes or bake in the oven at 375 for about 25 minutes. The exteriors are bubbly, crisp, and a little flaky with a nice chew on the inside. You can even roll up a batch and put them in the freezer, so they’re ready to prepare and cook when you get the craving. Try these pizza rolls once, and they’ll become a permanent fixture on the snack menu for the kids or game time.
