Carrie's Pizza Rolls

Total Time: 4 hrs 25 mins Preparation Time: 55 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• 1 (1/4 ounce) package dry yeast
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon honey
• 4 cups wheat or 4 cups flour, 4 to 5
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1 cup water
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 1 lb tomato, crushed (or 3)
• 1 (8 ounce) can tomato sauce
• 1/2 lb mozzarella cheese (sliced or shredded)
• 1 tablespoon parmesan cheese or 1 tablespoon romano cheese, grated
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 dash salt
• 1 dash pepper
• 1 dash oregano
• 1 dash basil

Recipe

• 1 dough: dissolve yeast with honey and 1/2 cup water; let stand 10 minutes.
• 2 put 4 cups flour in large mixing bowl; stir in oil, water and yeast mixture. mix thoroughly.
• 3 knead 8 to 10 minutes.
• 4 let dough rise 1 hour until doubled.
• 5 punch down and roll on floured surface to about 1/2- inch.
• 6 cut into rectangles about 4 x 6-inches or desired size of pizza roll.
• 7 sauce: place all ingredients (except the mozzarella cheese) in a crock-pot and simmer on low for about 2 hours.
• 8 let cool to room temperature. hot sauce will make dough soggy.
• 9 rolls: place a small amount of sauce on the dough rectangles, spreading it to cover the entire piece of dough.
• 10 sprinkle mozzarella cheese over half of the dough.
• 11 roll up the dough burrito-style, sealing edges with moistened fingers.
• 12 place rolls on a cookie sheet. allow to rest for about 10 minutes.
• 13 bake in a hot 500 degrees oven until dough is golden brown.
• 14 serve rolls with a side bowl of hot pizza sauce for dipping the pizza rolls inches.
• 15 these freeze beautifully.
• 16 can be reheated in the microwave. variations: you may wish to add slices of mushroom, olive, shredded beef, pepperoni slices or whatever in addition to the mozzarella cheese inside the pizza roll.