Friday, July 23, 2010

My Homemade "Little Pizzas" (Little pizza = BIG flavor)

1 (8 pk) can jumbo biscuits - any flavor, any brand as long as they are JUMBO
1/2 jar of spaghetti sauce or 1 jar of pizza sauce
1 tbsp of sugar
1 pk of Pepperoni
1/2 to 1 lb browned hamburger meat
1 can (or jar) of sliced mushrooms, drained
1 onion (minced)
1 Green pepper
shredded mozzarella cheese - The amount of cheese depends on how cheesy you want it
1/2 cup of bench flour (regular flour that you dust your board with to roll out the biscuits)

Preheat your oven to 350 or 375. I take a large flexible plastic cutting board that is smooth surfaced and dust it with flour and flour my rolling pin and roll out all of my biscuits into 6-8'' rounds depending on how big you want them. Dont worry -- they'll all look different. Once I have them all rolled out, I take two trays either pizza trays or rectangle (however they will fit) and arrange them so they are not overlapping.

Open your jar of spaghetti or pizza sauce and add in the sugar, put the lid back on and shake it up. Once its mixed in, I spread it evenly across the little rounds of biscuits and then I pile on the toppings and top it with cheese! Let it bake for 15-20 minutes until the bread part underneath is golden brown and the cheese is good and melted! If cooking 8 pizzas and using two pans, half way through cooking, switch the pans from top to bottom and bottom to top rack, just so all of the pizzas can be the same and cooked through.

You can use any pizza toppings you like: mushrooms, onions, pepperoni, peppers, cheese, sausage, hamburger, steak, tomatoes, etc.. whatever you normally like on your pizza! Get the kids involved. They'd love to get in there and help arrange "their own" little pizza and put the toppings on the way they want :)


This is what I made for dinner tonight - and I had a left over porterhouse steak that was marinated in my own special sauce and grilled and i took it and chopped it up and put it on the pizzas too. Anything goes! Just be sure and drain whatever you have before you put them on there, you dont want the pizzas to get watery, they'll take forever to cook and will never be crispy. If you want your pizza crust crunchy, right after you've rolled them out, go through and poke holes in them with a fork all over so the crust won't rise (called docking) and then bake the crust separately before you add on the toppings (called blind baking). Then you'll only have to have it in the oven long enough for the cheeese to melt and the toppings to soften.

Enjoy!