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This mini pizza pockets recipe is perfect for school lunches! These will freeze great so that the kids can have a delicious bento-box lunch ready!
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Mini Pizza Pockets – Perfect For Lunches
I have a fun and pretty easy recipe for you guys that is sure to be a hit in school lunches! Mini Pizza Pockets! In fact, you may find that are making a few extra of these pizza pockets for you too 😉 School is in session, or about to be if your area hasn’t started yet. That means it’s time to start thinking about lunch. Yes, that very important meal that comes in the middle of the day that keeps our kids fueled and ready to learn all day long. I don’t know about you, but I enjoy giving the kids something fun and different. There are only so many peanut butter sandwiches my kiddos will eat!
Produce for Kids emailed me to let me know that the Power Your Lunchbox Pledge is back on this year, after a successful launch last year, Produce for Kids is encouraging families nationwide to kick off the school year right by pledging to pack a healthier lunchbox at PowerYourLunchbox.com. And to get us all excited about fun and healthy lunches for our kids, they also shared a yummy Pizza Pocket Recipe! I will admit, I didn’t make my pizza dough from scratch, but they still turned out delicious.
To make your mini pizza pockets, you just grab your favorite fillings from Publix (or your favorite retailer), I used mushrooms, Pero Family Mini Sweet Peppers, cheese, mini pepperonis, and sauce.
I did get the premade pizza dough from the deli at Publix, once it was rolled out I used a pancake ring to make 4 inch circles.
Once the circles were made, I started filling them with the toppings.
What I really love about these, is that they are completely customizable! Add extra cheese for one child, extra sweet peppers for another, no mushrooms for one day…oh the possibilities are endless!
In fact, since these are so small and bite-sized, it’s easy to sneak in a veggie without the kids really noticing! Mine at a mushroom for the first time ever and had no clue 😉
Once the pizza pockets are all filled, you will then fold them over and use a fork to seal the edges. Cook them for about 15 mins at 425 degrees and BAM – fun lunch ready!
You can easily make a bunch of these ahead of time, refrigerate them for a few days, freeze them, etc. They are the perfect size for little hands and fit perfectly into Bento Boxes.
Here is the Mini Pizza pocket Recipe. Be sure to Print It and Pin It so that you can make them again and again.
Mini Pizza Pockets
Equipment
- Stove
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup no-salt-added tomato sauce
- ½ cup part-skim shredded mozzarella cheese
- mini slices pepperoni
- 4 mushrooms sliced
- 4 Pero Family Farms® mini sweet peppers sliced
- 1 pre-made fresh pizza dough
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425ºF.
- Spray large baking sheet with cooking spray.
- Use 4-inch round cookie cutter to cut rounds.
- Spoon 1 tsp. tomato sauce in middle of each round.
- Add ½ Tbsp. cheese, 4 quarters of pepperoni, mushroom slice and 2 pepper rings.
- Moisten edges of dough with water.
- Fold dough over filling and press to seal.
- Use the tines of a fork to crimp and further seal the edge.
- Place pizza pockets on large baking sheet coated with cooking spray.
- Poke the top of each with fork.
- Bake 15 minutes, or until tops are browned (some cheese may leak out).
- Once cool, freeze single layer on baking sheet. Once frozen, wrap individually in plastic wrap and transfer to freezer bag. If placed frozen in a lunchbox, even with an ice pack, they will defrost by lunchtime.
I hope you and your family enjoy these Mini Pizza Pockets as much as we do!
For every online pledge, lunchbox-friendly companies supporting Power Your Lunchbox Pledge will make a collective $1 donation to Feeding America® children’s programs such as Kids Café, Backpack program and Child Hunger Corps.
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My kids would love these they can even help make them
these look great can’t wait to try these out!
Great lunch ideas! I would like these just as much as my kids would!
These look delicious and would make great after school snacks!
Super good idea. I am all about this. I might make this for my lunches too 🙂
These sound so good. I can’t wait to give them a try. Thank you for sharing
These look great! I can’t get my 17 yr old to bring her lunch beyond chips.
Even my husband would like these! I would probably have to add some jalapeno peppers,to them,because he likes spicy stuff!
These look great I would love to try !
Good ideas.Love mini pizzas!
Awesome idea! My pizza crazed 5yo would love these.
These mini pizza pockets look SO delicious! I’m going to have to try making them myself!
these are good
hat a fun way to have the kids help with their lunches.
this is an awesome idea and something my little ones will enjoy making and eating!
This is such a great idea.
these sound good, what neat idea-gonna tell my daughter about this recipe
I would love something like this as a kid or as an adult. I like pizza and snackables.
My daughter would be excited for lunch if I made this for her.
I have to tell my sister about these, for my nephew’s lunches!!! Since peanut butter is banned in schools here, due to allergies….there are limited options for a quick-made lunch! Plus, my nephew takes after me, he loves pizza!!!
Such a great idea for snacks as well, make in bulk over the weekend and the kids can treat themselves.
What a fantastic Idea!
These would be great for my husband and I took pack for lunch at work.
I make these and I stuff them also with ground beef and onions thanks
That sounds really good too!! YUM! Let me know how they turn out 🙂
This is such a great idea for school lunches! My kids would love these!
These mini pizza pockets are a great idea. I love that they’re so fast and easy to make and you can fill them with whatever you like. You can even fill a few with pie filling and make fruit pie pockets. Thank you for sharing this recipe.
These look so much better than the frozen grocery store kind! Plus, if you let the kids pick their fillings, they’ll be more likely to eat it!
My kids won’t eat the frozen grocery store kind, but these…they goobled right up 🙂
My kids are in college now, but I would make this for my own lunch! I will share with my other friends that still have kids in school; I’m sure they will love it too!
We, in Canada, have banned peanut butter in schools due to allergies. I would love to make these for my nephew! He would love to eat these for lunch…I will have to tell my sister about this recipe!!!
What a great idea! We love the pizza dough from Publix and made calzones for dinner last night. We made huge ones and cut them up, but then all the filling comes out. Genius idea to use a pancake ring to cut the dough smaller. I will definitely do that next time.
What an idea! I am going to try the recipe out. I am definitely going to make a decent batch for a Labor Day weekend picnic.
I’m always looking for new ideas for the kids lunches and this is a great one! Thanks, I really love that they are so easy to customize for different children, too.
This mom is always on the hunt for new lunch ideas & this is a great one! You just know this tastes of homemade fresh, delicious goodness, instead of the processed frozen pizza pockets. A hit in my book!
This is a great recipe for kids, pretty quick and very healthy compared what they usually snack on.
What a good lunch idea. It’s easy to make and a favorite kids meal. Sneaking in a bit of vegetables doesn’t hurt either
These look great for lunches or an after-school snack. I might eat some too!
WOW!!! tThis is a great idea. I will have to try this.
These would be a super hit in our house thanks for sharing this one and have a nice day.
I tried it and it turned out great, also delicious.
These sound pretty easy, but I have no place to get the pre-made dough. Can use the canned one though!
i think i will have my kids help me make these!
such a great idea!!! my kids would love these
The kids would love this, thanks for the great idea!
Forget the kids, I would LOVE THESE!!!
My daughter will be starting her first day of school next week. I have been looking for ideals for my daughter’s lunches. Thank you for sharing.
Not only are these a great lunch idea, they would be awesome for dinner.
this is a show stopper – fun, yummy and healthy! You know this will get gobbled up! Great for any age!
what a cute ideal,,my grandkids would love this for lunch
I don’t have any school aged children. When I went to school, I always bought lunch. It was unheard of to pack it. It’s nice that kids are going back to it. The food is much healthier.
Thank you for the recipe. They look simple to make and look delicious.
What a fun and easy lunch idea. The kids would enjoy filling their own with their favorite ingredients. Thank you!
I would love to see if my son would like these!
I love this pizza bento box idea. My daughter starts all day kindergarten and I want to pack her lunch daily. Thanks for the great idea!
You’re welcome – enjoy 🙂
These are awesome. And they’d be great anytime. So many combinations you can come up with. My grandkids would love these. Thanks for the recipe.
Carol L
Very clever. thanks for sharing
I would love to make these for myself! And, I’ll pass this along to my sister…for my nephew’s luches!!!!
These look yummy! Can’t wait to try them out! 🙂
I have to try these! I have 1 ultra picky kid who won’t eat any meats except hamburger & hotdogs. I’m running out of ideas for her! I’ve never heard of selling pizza dough in the deli! Wish our store did that. Thanks for sharing!
I love pizza pockets and I am going to try this recipe out. It look yummy.
I think I’m going to try these for my kiddo who insists he takes a lunch everyday to school.
They will love them! And be sure to make a bunch so you can freeze them 🙂
These sound so good. They would make a perfect lunch or even dinner. Thank you so much for sharing
These look great. What a wonderful idea for lunches!
These look delicious! We recently made some similar, but we used canned preformed biscuits.
That looks so good. I always like new lunch ideas.
Love these! My son is a big pizza fan so I think these would be a great lunchbox surprise.
What a fun switch up from a PB & J. I want to try these at home asap.
My kids love pizza. These would make a great lunch for them for school. We will be making them for sure
This is such a great idea! I think it’s great how easy and customizable this is! My kids are definitely going to love this one, and so will I! I bet you could even use premade biscuits and just flatten them out?
Great idea for a quick lunch or snack for the kids
Yes, it really is! I love that they freeze well too.
Both my daughter and I love to pack bento boxes for lunch!
This will be great for when my daughter can bring her lunch to school.