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 C 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.
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.
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Those look good and so so easy. My husband loves meatball subs I bet he would love these. How do you kids like them Christy???? oh and do they freeze well? another great fast and easy meal. Enjoy your weekend.
My son and husband LOVE them. My husband ate one for supper last night, one for a “snack” before bedtime, and took two to work today – that’s why I make so many!
My son gobbles them up but usually eats half at a time, they are kind of filling.
My daughter is three. She likes Macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, grilled cheese, yogurt, apples, and chicken nuggets. Literally, that’s her diet. She does like most other fruits like grapes and cantaloupe though but she’s not real big on things that don’t look familiar at this point. Very picky eating phase. We just exclude her opinion on whether or not anything is good
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Son loves them, husband loves them, nephews love them, okay so basically every single member of my immediate and extended family love these – except for three year old Katy, who has never tried them.
You know, I haven’t froze them yet but have been thinking of that myself. I think they would freeze very well, but need to be thawed in the fridge before you heated them up. I want to freeze some and if I have any left am going to try it.
To funny on your daughter she sounds the same as my youngest Carson. As you could tell on my comment on the Pepperoni Lasagna Roll ups. Her diet and his diet sound exactly the same to the “T” LOL oh no Christy I think Carson has found his Bride. LOL They would get along like two peas in a pod. I am going to the store later today so i will pick up the ingredients to make the pizza rolls. Our Walmart sells those exact rolls over by the Deli. I am so excited. Ü
I think my kids and my husband have been dropped on their heads as well. They dislike peppers, onions and mushrooms its sad because I so love them. + my husband dislikes tomatoes it makes it hard at times, but i tell him you can just pick it out. He loves the flavors of them but not the pepper or onion themselves i guess he is just weird. LOL.
Perfect! I love recipes like this where I can cook and store it in the fridge so the kids can grab when they’re hungry. And this looks like something they’ll love. Thanks!!
Francie
This looks so good, I love the idea of using pizza sauce. I am going to have to make these for our families get together this week.
Mommy’s Kitchen (Tina) – I have had to give up mushrooms also! Sometimes, I buy a whole container of them and just eat them in one sitting ~looks around in embarassment~. You know what I have done before? I have sauteed whole mushrooms in butter, then cooked in our spaghetti sauce. Before everyone gets home or at the table, I fish all the little fellers out of there and put them in a bowl for me and no one is the wiser!
~sighs~
Oh the things we do…
Frantic Home Cook (Francie): Thank you! BTW, I love your name AND your site!!
Those lime mint cakes….~drools~
~Christy
Julia Ann: I hope they like them half as much as mine do!!
I loved that tutorial on spaghetti sauce you did, it was great!
I think we have the same pots….
~grins~
I really like your blog…glad I found it! I will visit often!
Farmer’s Wife:
Thank you! I’m so glad you found me too!
Hope to see you back soon and if you ever have any questions or requests just let me know!!!!!
~grins~
Christy I wanted to post and let you know I made the Pizza Rolls Friday Night. Nothing like waiting huh. I couldnt help it. I am happy to say here we are one Sunday morning and all 6 Pizza Rolls have vanished, so thats a great sign. I really liked them and my oldest son loved them. On Saturday after we warmed them up we added pepperoni and black olives (my husbands favorite pizza) They were to die for. I love how fast and easy they are to pop in the microwave. Great Recipe Ü
I just love it when you comment, Tina!!!
My husband finished ours off yesterday (a whole dozen!) and asked last night if I would make a dozen more if he went and got the stuff!
I told him I’d make more in a week or so……he has a pattern of eating something he loves until he burns himself out on it and I don’t want to lose one of my favorite recipes from the menu!
I mentioned his other favorite, peanut butter balls, and he was happy as he made a special trip to get an ingredient I needed for them!
I hope someday I can get creative with the add ins for pizza rolls like you have, yours sound so good. Maybe I’ll just come eat pizza rolls at your house!
Ok now Christy I would love that imagine all the cooking and eating we could do togehter. Ü I had a idea maybe you can put all the extras in just for you. I had the pepperoni and the black olives as side items same with the peppers that way they could just be added in as i warmed up my pizza roll. Its just a thought so you can eat all the goodies as well.
Good lord. If you:
1. Used wheat rolls
2. Made your own 15 minute sauce with tomatoes, garlic, and herbs
and
3. Used ground turkey
You could:
1. Provide your family with some nutrition
2. Have about 1/3 of the sodium
3. Use less processed ingredients
4. Have less cholesterol and more protein
and possibly
5. Have less of an environmentally negative impact.
Just my opinion.
Anonymous…..IF that floats your boat….then GO FOR IT!
(anyway’s, …how would this have a negative impact on the environment?) As for me and my household….we will die happy… with cholesterol! :]
Thanks for the input, Anonymous! I’m sure your suggestions will come in handy.
Glad you stopped by!
~Christy
I’m late getting around to this recipe, but I am completely amazed at how many of your recipes are identical or very similar to things we made in my house (I’m from Tennessee) and I still love to cook today. We didn’t do pizza rolls – we did pizza burgers – using hamburger buns, pizza sauce, whatever toppings each person wants, and cheese, and then put them on a baking pan and baked in the oven till the cheese got nice and browned. Yum, I want some right now!
Rachae!: Oooh, pizza burgers sound good, too! LOL
It is amazing how much southerners tend to cook alike. Recipes like this you’d think were less widespread or confined to a family sharing among themselves. I guess you put a southerner anywhere and they’re gonna gravitate to the same ingredients and make some darn good food!
Now I want a pizza burger!
Christy
Well Butter My Butt & Call Me a Biscuit… Anonymous was was kinda rude! Scratching head here… Exactly what does Yummy Pizza Rolls have to do with the environment? LOL Well I for one think this recipe sounds WONDERFUL! And Christy your site rocks!
Besides who wants to eat healthy all the time?
LOL anonymous …..figures its needs to be anonymous! LOL
Treva and Pinky, I love you guys! I truly to!
I am so glad I found your blog…I will be checking back often. I am making these for the weekend, I am sure they will be a big hit!! Thank you for sharing
Do you microwave them in the plastic wrap or unwrap them before you microwave?
Hey Southern Mom!!! I’m so glad you found my blog, too and I’m so sorry it took me this long to respond!! I hope you are still hanging around my front porch!!
Lulu, we microwave them in the plastic wrap, it makes the buns nice and moist!!!!
Even when I make them fresh, my husband has me wrap his and microwaves it a little!
Thanks!!
Christy
I’m so happy I found this blog!! It is great. I’m looking forward to reading it all. Lulu
This recipes sounds great and easy to boot. TFS!
I’ll have to give this one a go – any ideas for little boys who won’t eat / try ANYTHING?????? (Tho he will eat pepperoni / salami (which is I think is strange, considering he won’t eat anything else! xx except watermelon))
These looks very freezeable, which is awesome! Sometimes you just need a quick lunch, or a low stress dinner. I think I need a small stockpile of these!
Sounds so yummy, by the way I did drop my brother on his head as a baby. I was 1&1/2 he was a new born; but he likes onion, garlic, peppers all the good stuff.
I made this and my family went ga ga over it! I added black olives because they love them and it was awesome! Thanks for the recipe, I’m sure I will make this often.
I made fried burritos the other day and it dawned on me that I could use this pizza mixture with mozzarella cheese and olives, instead of the taco meat, beans, cheese, olives, sourcream etc. and I could wrap it up in a tortilla and fry it in some olive oil and we would have pizza hot pockets. I think I will try that. Thanks for the idea!
Love love love your recipes.I ordered your book this week and it came today! I love that book.
This is a great recipe for me to try. I am a one arm gal and I won’t have to fight the pizza dough now to have homemade pizza! I have a feeling you are related to my hubby. His family is from your neck of the woods. Glad I found your website it has been a joy to read everything.
Shirley
Those look good and would be a great Sunday in between church meal because I could make ‘em on Friday or Saturday and just heat them up.
So I wandered over from The Butterfinger Cake recipe and got a kick out of the anonymous post! He/she definitely “ain’t from ’round here”. I will definitely try this recipe and use dh’s ground deer, “the original organic free-range meat” according to Rick & Bubba (radio show).
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After reading many of your recipes, I went to the store, thinking of what to cook. My husband definitely liked the idea of Sloppy Joes, so we picked up a can of Manwich sauce — and then finished a long list of basic groceries, including sub buns and mozarella for our Sloppy Joes. Those of you who are laughing right now know that I mixed the Sloppy Joe recipe with the Pizza Rolls recipe. So here I am, ready to invent a “Sloppy Roll.” LOL. I’ll let you know how it turns out.
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These were for sure a hit at our house… Thanks for sharint your recipes Christy.
Oh, Christy I must tell you I shared these with my neighbor and she just had to have the recipe. They do a lot of camping and this would be great for them. I’m so glad to have stumbled across your website.
Wow, Christy. These look great! I came over from the Butterfinger Cake recipe (which I will make soon) and found this one. These are on the list for the next time I need to take something for a church lunch or to a pot luck. I’ll keep a few for us (wink) and take the rest for sharing. Yum!
Keep up the great work. By the way, I love your cookbook too. It has become a ‘go to’ book when I need something good and fast.
Hi Christy! I came over from the Butterfinger Cake recipe (after checking out the Elvis Presley Cake). I’m making a cake JUST LIKE the Butterfinger Cake this week, well except I’m using toffee bits instead of Butterfinger, and. no, just kidding about the “and”. not kidding about the toffee bits.
And your E.P. Cake is very similar to a cake my mom forced on us about 30 years ago called, (no, really) Cake Better Than Sex.
But the point of this is to tell you that the pizza rolls sound really yummy! I can’t wait to try them on my coworkers when I volunteer to take lunch. They are such guinea pigs.
and finally. What’s up with Anonymous? That was rude. Besides, I’ll bet you already knew all that.
Made these earlier in the week in anticipation of having one of those weeks when there’s a hungry family and no time to cook. (Evening meetings almost every night this week.) Husband and 15 year-old loved them. I added bell peppers, onions, and celery. Daughter took them to school for lunch 2 days and this morning she hid the last one in the back of the fridge so she can have another one on Friday. I’d call that a hit.
Did have some questions: Do you microwave them in the Saran wrap or unwrap before heating? Since you are such a lover of generics, is there something special about Saran? (Piggly Wiggly was out of Saran so I bought Reynolds). Are there some brands of plastic wrap that you find work better for certain things? Are some brands more microwavable than others?
Since my family actually LIKES peppers and onions and such, I may try this with larger chunks of veggies added later in the cooking process to give it a little more crunch next time. Overall a fabulous meal idea that I will definitely do again.
This Will be great for myfamily when we have softball the weekend for the whole weekend
I made a test batch of these tonight (including your boiled beef process) and my husband and I really enjoyed them. I put them in hot dog buns and it worked out perfectly.
Hey Christy,
Does the bread get soggy ???
Christy, I love your blog and am so glad I found it. You cook like I like to eat! And it may be “unhealthy” to some people, but not to Southerners or Okies! My Mom and Dad were both from Oklahoma, and she cooked just like this and so did my Grandma and NO ONE left their tables hungry. If there wasn’t food left on the table, that meant someone didn’t get enough to eat, OR (Heaven help you) you were a picky person. Regardless which, if there was no food left, they both would get up and fix something else, or give you more pie, cake, banana pudding, whatever. You were going to be satisfied when you left the table! But in those days they were working in the fields from before daylight until after sundown, and when they ate, there was no complaining about the food! Women sure
didn’t expect praise for their cooking, but they didn’t need any words to feel the gratitude when all you could hear was forks hitting plates and chewing. So that was just the way people cooked and ate then. Most of us don’t work in the fields now, (and thank God for the ones who do!) but we still have that ingrained memory of good food going along with hard work and still want it no matter if we do sit in an office and do computer work all day. So keep up the good work Christy! The ones of us who love what we eat can sure enjoy every recipe you give us, and those of us who want to watch our weight and worry about all that stuff, can just go to one of those other websites and enjoy those recipes. I have a recipe to send you on the order of these delicious pizza rolls at another time. I apologize for rambling, but can’t help it when I think of my Mama’s and my Grandma’s cooking. Thank you for that.
Barb
Here I am again, next morning, Christy. I got out my old black 3-ring cookbook that I have been writing my favorite recipes in for 40 years, and found my recipe for Cheese Boats. They are like your pizza rolls, but with a more Southwest flavor. There was a drive-in years ago in the Globe-Miami,Az. area that made these. This isn’t “my” recipe, as I stated above. It is just in my book. These are so good to have in the freezer, if you can actually get them IN the freezer before we eat them, and a good sandwich to have stashed for a lazy day.
Cheese Boats
1 small (4oz) can of diced green chiles
1 1/2 lb. grated longhorn cheddar cheese.
1 small can chopped olives
1 bunch sliced green onions
8 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and chopped.
1 8 oz. can tomato sauce.
Garlic salt to taste.
French rolls, cut almost half the way through, and a little bread pulled out of the center.
Mix all the ingredients together, then stuff french rolls. Roll sandwiches in foil. Put in the oven about 15-20 minutes at 400 degrees. Enjoy!
Maybe frozen before heating in the oven.
Hey gang! I think anonymous was a little uppity on the “hurting the environment” but I think you can always go healthy if you want to by changing things just slightly as they suggested. Christy’s recipes are great because you can use the recipe and just change the ingredients a little if you feel bad about something- like white bread, for instance. I don’t eat white bread, I would switch out to sourdough rolls, however, the recipe still works. And the suggestion of wrapping in foil and putting in the oven- that is what I would do because I NEVER put plastic in the microwave! There is supposed to be microwave safe wrap now, though- for ya’ll who are dead set on “I want to microwave food with wrap!” I would suggest that.
Just my two cents
Be well!
Hi , Thanks for the wonderful receipt “Christy’s crockpot Chili”.
we just love it,its quick and freezes well. I purchased your cook books for my daughter and daughter in law and they love them.
I just love your blog, it makes my day… Have a great weekend and hope your moving goes well…
Love this recipe and think it’s super, can’t wait to try it!
I love your blog!
I have read a few of the receipes you have on here and I really want to try some. My Daughter is so picky and likes only the chicken or Pizza stuff that I make, and she refuses to eat my ground meat receipes. Do you have anything for picky eaters, around the ages of 15? She is actually worried about gaining weight and wants to eat healthy but I feel limited by her “standards”!
I am also writing to tell you that you have made such a great impression on me, the receipes and the way you tell them are really
interesting. I lost my mom 8 years ago and you have set a comforting impression on me. I love to just read how you write and seem to be enjoying what your doing. I was right along with you was the way you made me feel. WOW!! You are doing a great thing and for all single moms out there that have a desire to cook good delicious meals out there for there family, friends and loved ones this is really AWESOME! Thanks for blessing me with your sweet personality I enjoyed reading these and look forward to more of what your doing there. GOD BLESS YOU!!
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Hello!
Love your website, and i cant wait to try some of your recipes.
A quick suggestion about onions and peppers…..I have a lot of these so-called picky eaters in my family as well. What i have discovered is that they don’t dislike the taste of onions and peppers so much as the sensation of biting into a vegetable….When cooking for these picky palates, i grate my onion and pepper into the food and then cook it. The vegetables literally disappear into the food but the taste is greatly enhanced. I also find that grating can be a lot faster than chopping vegetables, i just hold it right over the pan on the stove. Of course i can never let them see me doing this or they surely won’t eat it!
But, what you don’t know cant hurt you, right?
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