Pizza Rolls! Who wants the weekend off from cooking??
Alright, technically, this isn’t a southern recipe in my mind. Then again, technically, if I am a southerner and I reside in the south and I make this – its southern food, right?
The main thing to remember is, these are cheap, my family loves them, they taste GREAT, and I WONT HAVE TO COOK ANY BIG MEALS THIS WEEKEND!!!
My mom used to make these when she and my dad went out of town. We were all in our late teens and they left three of us, ages fifteen through twenty, alone in the house for two to three days at a time. They didn’t fret much though. Mama would make a batch of pizza rolls and some ham and cheese croissants. She gave my brother pizza money for all of us and they went off on a little getaway, confident that their offspring were responsible and intelligent young adults who would behave while they were away.
Yeah, I’ll never do that. I know better.
Without further adieu, Pizza Rolls!
You’ll need: TWO packages of sub rolls, mozzerella cheese, TWO jars of Pizza sauce, Plastic cling wrap, and beef. We’re going to make a dozen of these. If you’d like to make only six, just half it. I always buy saran wrap when I make these as you will be using a good quantity of it and I’m usually running low about this time anyway, so Saran Wrap is just kind of part of the recipe for me.
See my link for how I process larger quantities of ground beef at once. Either do it that way or brown your ground beef as you see fit. Either way, we need it browned and drained well.
Place ground beef in a skillet and stir in Pizza sauce. I use about a jar and a half, not quite two jars.
This is where normal people would have this skillet full of sauteed onions and bell peppers as well. Normal people would like to have sauteed onions and peppers in with this dish. Normal people would find that delicious in addition to smelling downright heavenly. However, I am convinced that out of my entire household (even my own children), I am the only one who was not dropped on their head as a child. No one in my household will eat these if I put onions and bell peppers in them. Normal = me. Abnormal = my family. If you are normal, feel free to add some sauteed onions and peppers. 
Tuck the ends onto the side and you’ve got a pizza roll! Now that we know what to do here, lets set up an assembly line for the rest.
Plop these puppies in the fridge and whenever you want one, just get it out and microwave for one minute!I am honestly not cooking this weekend! Except for some frozen waffles for breakfast and a tutorial I’m doing tomorrow or Sunday on sausage gravy…
I won’t be cooking thanks to pizza rolls!
Pizza Rolls
2 lbs ground beef, browned and drained
2 Cups Mozzarella
1 Dozen sub rolls
2 – 15 oz jars of pizza sauce
Add one and a half jars of pizza sauce to beef in skillet. Stir and cook on medium until bubbly. Slice each bun almost through and spoon beef mixture into the bun. Add cheese on top and seal with plastic wrap. Place in refrigerator and heat in microwave for one minute when ready to eat. Can be stored in fridge for several days.
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Sample dialogue from this weekend :
Kid/Husband : “I’m hungry”
Smiling Woman: “Well, we have pizza rolls in the fridge..”
Kid/Husband: “Oh Cool!”
Smiling Woman goes back to her reading, embroidery, napping, crocheting, watching tv, etc without lifting a finger.
Posted by Christy Jordan
on Jul 18 2008. Filed under FEATURED Southern Favorites!, Main Course, Quick&Easy.
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Sheesh, I can’t believe how rude Anonymous was! These rolls are healthier than a lot of things you can eat- with them in the fridge or freezer, you can forgo swinging by a fast food place. And Christy, you are a brave woman for keeping up unkind comments people write. I don’t think people would fault you for deleting the negative ones, but you leave them up
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Back on track, I made these tonight because the end of the semester is looming (I’m going to school to be an elementary teacher) and it’s going to be a very busy week. I used ground turkey because I’m a big weirdo who hates ground beef (I had serious food texture issues as a child and while 99% of them have gone away and I’m not a picky eater, ground beef does me in). I added chopped pepperoni, sauteed mushrooms and sliced black olives, and ended up adding some oregano and garlic powder. I hope you don’t mind me messing with your recipes. I always figure people should change recipes around as they see fit. Also, your method of wrapping them individually and then sticking them back in the bag is ingenious. Anyway, my fiance and I love the pizza rolls! So good and so easy! I will definitely be making these again. They remind us of Sloppy Joes so we changed their name to Sloppy Luigis because Pizza Rolls make us think of those little frozen pizza things from the grocery store.
Hi! I found your website about a week ago….LOVE it?….just wondering, do you heat these in the saran wrap?….When I warmed mine up, the roll got kind of “rubbery”…am I doing something wrong?
Hey Everybody,
I think you could use wax paper to wrap these in when you’re ready to eat them if you don’t want to use plastic wrap. Hi Christy!
Ohhh thankyou… Just headed back to work after a lonnnggg hiatus and these kinda recipies will keep my family fed and happy while I am feeling guilty at abandoning them. KEEP them coming. Christy you are my HERO!!!
Thanks for this easy, yummy recipe! Have you ever tried it with other toppings too (like olives or mushrooms)? Since I like those toppings too, this would be a great way to “individualize” my pizza.
BTW, I am so addicted to this site. There are so many recipes that remind me of my grandmother as I was growing up in Mississippi. Thanks for keeping the Southern Art of cooking alive and well. 
I can’t wait to try these! “We” go fishing when my dh gets time off from work…taking the old motor home (I will only take camping so far, folks! LOL). I think I could make these up and, even if the grand kids are with us, we will have something that will feel, and smell, homemade when they come out of the microwave! LOL This is one of the only blogs that I have found what we would classify as “real food”, and I hope you never quit! Keep up the good work…and clue us in daily if you don’t mind! LOL
Hey I accidently ran into your site, those things look soooooo good!!! Does it taste similar to a sloppy joe?
[...] This is a great recipe I usually make on Fridays when I have a busy weekend coming up. I make six to twelve of them and stash them in the fridge so throughout the weekend whenever folks get hungry all they have to do is heat one up in the microwave for a no fuss meal. To see my original recipe, click here. [...]
I made these! HOW WONDERFUL!! Even my grandsons that don’t like sandwiches love them! I will forever use this one….well, as long as I can call it cooking! LOL Thank you again and again! Did anyone ever find out if these could be frozen and then reheated without any problems? Mine don’t last long enough to even think of putting in the freezer!
This is saving my days!
I did sub my own tomato sauce and used turkey instead of meat on accounta I have super high cholesterol — but I never would have thought of this without you!!! I love your recipes, Christy!!
Made 6 because there’s just two of us, gone in a heart beat so gonna make up some more… yummy and fast, thank you Christy!!!
Oh…and P.S. veggies (onions, green peppers, anything) can be shredded and added to the tomato sauce, not to the meat, making them even harder to find…you can add them to store bought or your own and nobody will be the wiser… simmer a bit and they will blend right in!
Ground turkey and wheat bread is more expensive than ground beef but you have to figure in the cost of cholesterol medication or the cost of losing someone to heart attack etc. to see if the extra cost is worth it! (and no, I’m not anonymous!)
Most shrink wrap stuff is microwave friendly…
and you should be able to freeze this, provided the meat wasn’t frozen after cooking and the bread wasn’t either.
If you use raw meet, cook it up, then make this and freeze it in bread that hasn’t been frozen before, you’re good..
In any case, this is yummy stuff!
OH girl these are awesome. Thanks so much for sharing. I think I’ll go devour one now
I’d love to hear some more ideas for food on the go or food thats easily ready in the fridge for on the go families!!
Jillian
[...] You know, it just kills me when folks come to my blog and expect to find health food. Alright, so far only one person has remarked about it and I am certain he/she really needed a life. Still, for entertainment purposes y’all go look at comments under Pizza Rolls. [...]
I LOVE THIS WEBSITE I AM SO GLAD I FOUND IT
I was just wondering do these get soggy? I think someone else ask but didnt see an answer.
THANKS
KIm
Ok, so I was looking at the recipe for the Butterfinger cake (which is in the oven now)to see what was next, when I “stumbled upon” this awesome recipe. Gonna try this week. As for that “Anonymous” person goes, I think I have it figured out ya’ll. See if this cranks your tractor.
2 lbs ground beef, browned and drained***having to kill the cow, process, package and distribute. (remember the word process here)
2 C Mozzarella *** she/he left this one out..
1 Dozen sub rolls***there are such things as wheat sub rolls.
2 – 15 oz jars of pizza sauce***glass/plastic jars are used here, bet they thought we don’t recycle.. well I DO !
1. Used wheat rolls ***see note above
2. Made your own 15 minute sauce with tomatoes, garlic, and herbs
***We do this, and we buy store bought also. Oh, and we recycle those jars.
3. Used ground turkey*** now here’s the kicker. One shell will get the bird, no processing like beef, draining of fluids, cleaning. etc, you get my idea, and then you pretty much use the whole bird at once if you live around my parts, but if you purchase the turkey from the store, then you are still getting the processed product. Guess this could be the 1 shell vs. the whole killing process of the beef.
You could:
1. Provide your family with some nutrition***beef and turkey both provide nutrition, along with bread and sauces.
2. Have about 1/3 of the sodium***depends on if I purchase the low sodium (which was not listed either way by Christy)or when I make my sauce, I cut back on that salt that I love so much.
3. Use less processed ingredients***processed.. there’s that word again.. umm beef or sauce
4. Have less cholesterol and more protein***beef has protein, or at least the beef we eat does
and possibly
5. Have less of an environmentally negative impact***beef/bird..glass/plastic (recycled)..
what the heck was this person thinking?? Maybe they were switching between this site and a “green” site.. who knows.
Now, I’m jumping off my soap box cause I gotta get that caramel and milk mixed before the cake is done.
Thanks Christy for getting me back in my kitchen after an extended “vacation” from it.
Lol. Thank YOU for the big grin this beautiful Sunday evening!!!!
Anonymous, I think you may have stumbled onto the wrong site, are not familiar with Southern manners or are just plain rude. I’ve never understood the motives of people who go to sites to “police” them or to “set other people straight”, according to their lofty opinions. If you don’t like it, don’t eat it. I would think your time would be better spent cooking pine needles, munching on roasted flax seed or hugging a tree. I will continue to make these wonderful recipes, eat in moderation and exercise. It works for me and I’m barely over 100 pounds. Keep posting these great dishes, Christy, and don’t let a rotten tomato spoil the whole bushel. I appreciate how you kill the trolls with kindness.
Christy, I love these. I like you always have pre browned hamburger (next time will follow your pre cooked way) and pre sauted veggies (onion pepper and mushrooms added to the sandwich.) in the freezer. So I made these today. Talk about a hit. There were none to put away. Next time I will double it so there are extras put away.
Hope you and your family had a great 4th.
Thanks again for your site, and for taking the time to do the step by step. I’m coping these to a word document with all your woinderful comments. I love them all. They are definalty a great read and pick me up after a long busy day. Plus a great way to get my (21 yr old, who has been taught to cook.) to cook. He has no questions, or can’t do with the step by step instructions.
Oh yea, the Easy Peasy Cherry Cheese Cobbler was a hit at our church picnic last week. Thanks Christy and Bill………..
Christy, I use ground turkey cause it’s more budget friendly, but this is a great recipe. Don’t know why I never thought about cooking it up all at once and freezing it for spaghetti, lasagna, chili, ziti, etc. I, too, like to add onions, garlic, peppers, and herbs. My son, who has a blended family, will absolutely love this recipe.
This will be a very big hit with the kids!! Thanks so much for sharing.