Homemade Pizza Rolls in Air Fryer (Puff Pastry)

Post was Updated on August 15, 2021

These quick Air Fryer Pizza Rolls are mini pizza rolls pockets filled with tomato sauce, grated mozzarella, chorizo, or pepperoni slices. Also, you can use your favorite pizza toppings. These snacks are very easy to make because we will use puff pastry and all we will need to do is to make only the topping for these mini pizzas appetizers until they will get a nice golden color.

These mini pizzas are perfect bite-sized snacks for a movie night. You can always keep a frozen puff pastry in the fridge and make unexpected these perfect pizzas rolls in your air fryer when you will have some guests.

This recipe is so fun to make, and the best part is that and your kids will love these mini pizzas. To make these bite-sized pizza rolls in the air fryer, you will need to line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Next, spread evenly the tomato sauce, dried oregano, grated mozzarella cheese, and optionally you can put a few leaves of basil.

Roll the dough into a tube and cut it into slices about 1″ thick. This will allow us to cook properly all the ingredients without burning them. Cook the pizza bites in the air fryer for about 8-10 minutes at 375ºF (190ºC) and they are ready to be served.

🍽️ Serving Suggestions

Enjoy them dipped near a tomato sauce, garlicky tzatziki sauce, or you can eat them as is as a snack.

🥰 Why You Will Love This Recipe?

• This is a quick recipe that will need from you only 5 minutes of preparation and about 10-15 minutes of cooking in the air fryer.
• You can use store bough pizza dough and pizza sauce. This will allow you to prepare these appetizers even faster.
• This recipe is super easy. You need to repeat only a few simple steps.
• These pizza rolls are bite-sized so they are perfect to eat them as snacks or to serve as appetizers.
• Your kids also will love this recipe.

🏆 Tips for Success? How to Make the Pizza Rolls Better?

• This is a healthy recipe made almost from scratch (excluding the dough). This can be handy if you plan to prepare the pizza roll bites for your kids, and you don’t want to cook the store-bough frozen pizza rolls where you don’t know what ingredients was used and how healthy they are actualy are.
• Don’t overcrowd the Air fryer basket. Leave some space so hot hair can easily circulate between the pizza rolls.
• Use perforated parchment paper. (You can take a regular parchment paper and to cut a few holes with scissors) This will help you to clean easier the air fryer basket later.
• Roll the dough tighly. This will help you avoiding fall apart the filling from the dough when you will cut it into small slices.
• To avoid burning the pizza rolls, you can cover them with an aluminum foil if they will start to get too much color.
• Take, in count that cooking time may vary from one air fryer manufacturer to another. So, keep an eye on them in the last minutes. Check the pizza rolls regularly to avoid burning them.

🤔 How to Scale the Recipe up and Down?

Quick Note: I’m using the Cosori Air Fryer 5.8QT. If you are using a smaller air fryer and you will want to prepare the same amount of the pizza rolls, just cook them in a few batches.

This is a simple recipe, so just increase or decrease the ingredients by keeping the same proportions. If you need to cook a bigger amount of these mini pizza rolls, cook them in a few batches. Don’t overcrowd the air fryer basket.

🥘 Ingredients Needed for This Recipe?

• 1 pound of Puff Pastry.
• 1/2 cup of Pizza Sauce.
• 2/3 cups of Chorizo/Pepperoni Slices.
• 1 cup of Grated Mozzarella Cheese.
• 1 teaspoon of Dried Oregano.
• Optionally, Basil Leaves for decoration.

🧀 Ingredients Swap?

• Cheese. I used mozzarella cheese, but you can replace it with grated parmesan or cheddar cheese.
• Salami. I used chorizo slices, but you can also use pepperoni or other type of salami that you prefer to eat on the pizzas. Also, you can consider using a nice ham. Or you can skip at all the salami and just to eat a delicious margaritta mini pizza snacks with just mozzarella and basil leaves. If you want a richer filling, you can add olive oil, bell peppers, mushrooms, eggplants and so on. Just keep in mind that to not to use too much of the filling because you will not be able to roll the dough.
• Pizza sauce. I used my delicious homemade tomato sauce for that. You can try to make your own (my recipe can help you on that) or just to use canned, or jarred pizza sauce. All of them will work fine for this recipe.
• Pizza Dough. I used frozen puff pastry, but you can also use store-bough pizza dough, or to make your own dough for the pizza.
• Basil Leaves. You can replace it with chopped parsley.

How to Make Frozen Pizza Rolls in Air Fryer?

If you plan to make packaged frozen pizza rolls like are “Totinos”, preheat the air fryer to 375°F (190°C), place the frozen pizza rolls in a single layer, and cook them for about 6-8 minutes. Optionally, when will pass half of the time, you can remove the air fryer basket and flip the pizza rolls. After that put them back into the air fryer and cook them for the rest of the time. Also, double-check the instructions on the back of the package because they may differ from one brand to another.

👩‍🍳 Directions

On a clean and dry surface, roll out the pizza dough or puff pastry as in my case. Spread evenly the pizza sauce on the dough. Right after that put on top chorizo or pepperoni salami slices and optionally, add dried oregano for an extra taste. It is important to leave about 1-2″ on one side so that the filling does not flow when you will roll the dough.

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Right after that, add shredded mozzarella cheese. Also, you can add now a little bit of parmesan or cheddar cheese. For extra freshness, add a few pieces of basil leaves.

Also, if you decided to add a few more ingredients for the toppings like is bell pepper, mushrooms, or eggplant, now is the right time to add them.

A quick note on the additional ingredients: If you decided to add ingredients like mushrooms, take into consideration that on cooking, the mushrooms will leave some water and they will soften the dough if you will put them on the dough as is. If you are a big lover of mushrooms in the pizza rolls, cook the mushrooms for a few minutes (you can use the air fryer for that) and after that, leave them for a few minutes for the liquid to drain from the mushrooms and only after that you can add them safely near the rest of the ingredients on the dough.

Roll the dough evenly and try to roll it as tightly as you can to avoid falling apart after you will cut the dough into slices.

Now, take a sharp knife and cut the dough tube into slices of about 1″.

The next step is optional, but it will help you to clean the Air Fryer Basket after that. As we used cheese, it will melt and will stick to the air fryer basket. To avoid that, I will suggest putting a perforated parchment paper. You can use something like this one, or you can take a regular parchment paper and cut some holes with scissors as I did.

Put all the pizza slices on the air fryer pan.

Next, set the air fryer temperature to 375ºF (190ºC) and cook the pizza rolls for about 8-10 minutes.

Quick Note: The working method of the air fryers may vary from one manufacture to another, and as these pizza rolls are bite-sized, it is very easy to burn them. Please keep an eye on them because in your case, they may need a few minutes more or less until they will be cooked perfectly.

I will suggest cooking them for about 7-8 minutes, then every minute to remove the air fryer basket and to check how cooked are the pizza rolls. Check how melted is the cheese and how well is cooked the dough.

Quick Note: If you’re not sure if the mini pizza rolls have been cooking enough, just remove one pizza roll and check on the bottom. If the dough on the bottom looks cooked, then they are done. If not, give them 1-2 more minutes.

If you see that the top of the pizza roll is browned enough already but the bottom of the pizza still needs some more time, take an aluminum foil and cover the top of the pizza rolls. This should stop the process of burning the top of your pizza rolls.

After the pizza rolls have been cooked and they just obtained a rich golden color, you can put them on a plate and leave them to rest for a few minutes. You can serve them near your favorite sauce. Today, I served them with tomato sauce. You can pick something spicy, I highly recommend checking our homemade sweet and chili sauce. Also, a good fit for these mini pizza rolls will be to combine them near a garlicky tzatziki sauce.

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🤔Answering Your Questions:

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