Gluten-free Pizza Pouches

 

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  Pizza pouches are a great meal for mid week munchies or a football game in your living room on the big screen. These little hot and saucy pizza pouches are to be a hit at your next meeting at the dinner table or in front of the tv screen with all your fan friends cheering on your favorite sports teams.

Gluten-free Pizza Pouches

Gluten-free pizza dough mix

8 oz cooked Italian sausage crumbles

8 oz Pepperoni slices, thin to regular

8 oz of Mozzarella cheese, 1-inch chunks

5 oz Pizza or marinara sauce

A few drops of olive oil

Make pizza dough according to the directions of gluten-free pizza dough package.

After the dough has risen, cut or tear off 2-inch rounds off of pizza dough.

Flatten dough into a disk or square with a few drops of olive oil on your fingers onto a non-stick baking mat or plastic wrap until the dough is about 1/8-1/4 inch thick. Be careful not to tear the dough or stretch it too thin, gluten-free pizza dough tends to be sticky and tears easily. 

Onto flattened dough put a dab of pizza or marinara sauce the size of a teaspoon in the middle. 

Next add a few sausage crumbles, about a level teaspoon full onto the sauce. 

Next place a slice or two of pepperoni on the sausage and top with a chunk of Mozzarella cheese. 

Here's the difficult part, making the pizza pouch. Theres a few ways you can do  this. A couple of ways to do this is by folding one side of dough over the filling and joining the ends by pressing them together. Or by lifting all sides around the filling and pinch the edges together into a twist at the top of the pouch. Either of these ways will be fine. Do this until all the dough and ingredients are used up.

Make a small 1/4 inch vent slit in the dough on the top of each pouch.

Bake on baking sheet for 20 minutes or until they're golden brown.

Serve with Pizza Sauce or Marinara Sauce and Enjoy!