Breakfast Pizza Pockets are a fun way to spruce up your mornings! With simple, balanced ingredients and about 20 minutes of cooking time, these babies will be devoured before you know it.
I'm always looking for meal prep breakfast ideas to keep things interesting. These Breakfast Puffs are SO fun and insanely delicious, even though they don't require much effort! Just cook all of your meats, veggies, and eggs - then, layer everything in the center of pizza dough and bake. Brush with garlic butter at the end and it's ready to go!
Ingredients
- Pizza Dough - There's a recipe for a quick no-rise pizza dough on my site. However, you can also use canned/refrigerated dough.
- Breakfast Sausage - Our home loves using chicken sausage, but you can also sub in pork or turkey breakfast sausage.
- Frozen Chopped Spinach - To make sure we get our veggies in. I've also used frozen kale before!
- Eggs - Be sure to soft scramble these and slightly undercook them, since they will finish off in the oven.
- Shredded Cheese - I used Monterey Jack for this, but feel free to try mozzarella, a taco blend, or pepper jack.
- Garlic Butter - To keep with the pizza theme, you *have* to brush these with garlic butter straight out of the oven. It's divine!
How to Make Breakfast Pizza Pockets
When you get bored of the same old breakfast sandwich before work, try these tasty breakfast flavor bombs.
- Start out by cooking all of your filling ingredients that need it. For this recipe, that's the ground chicken sausage, the frozen chopped spinach, and the scrambled eggs.
- Meanwhile, roll out your raw pizza dough into a thin rectangle and cut it into even pieces - I was able to get 12 altogether or 6 per can.
- Stack the cooked filling ingredients in the middle of a dough piece and top with your favorite shredded cheese.
- Pull and fold the sides of the dough over so everything is completely covered, then flip and place - folded side down - on a parchment-lined baking sheet.
- Bake at 400℉ for 18 minutes. Turn off the heat, and let the puffs cook for another 2 minutes.
- Remove, brush with a homemade garlic butter and oil mix, and serve with fruit.
Variations/Substitutions
- Instead of sausage, try crumbled cooked bacon in the filling!
- You can use homemade dough or the raw, canned version found in supermarkets.
- Get creative with the fillings! You could try egg white, feta, and spinach for a vegetarian twist. Or what about beef bacon, onions and peppers, and gouda?
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Breakfast Pizza Pockets
For a fun twist on your mornings, try these Breakfast Pizza Pockets! Sausage, eggs, spinach, and cheese are wrapped inside a flaky pizza dough ball and the whole thing is brushed with garlic butter. It's a treat!
Ingredients
- 16 ounces ground chicken sausage
- 7.5 ounces frozen chopped spinach
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 6 count large eggs
- ⅓ cup cottage cheese
- ¼ cup water or milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- 2 cans refrigerated pizza dough
- shredded Monterey Jack cheese
Garlic Butter Glaze
- 1 ½ tablespoon salted butter melted
- 2 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon Italian seasoning
Instructions
- Start out by prepping your ingredients.
- Cook the ground sausage on medium-high heat until done, using a spatula to create small crumbles. Drain any oil and set aside.
- Sauté the frozen spinach until soft, seasoning with ½ tsp. of salt. Set aside.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs, cottage cheese, water, 1 tsp. of salt, and the black pepper.
- Pour into a skillet and slowly scramble on low heat. Set aside.
- Preheat your oven to 400℉.
- Roll one can of pizza dough out into a thin rectangle on a parchment paper-covered surface. Cut the dough into 6 equal pieces.
- Add a spoonful of sausage, spinach, and eggs to the middle of one piece. Sprinkle the shredded cheese on top.
- Fold the dough over to completely cover the toppings. Pinch to seal, then flip the pocket over. Repeat with the remaining can of dough and the remaining pieces.
- Add some parchment paper to a baking sheet. Place the pizza pockets on the sheet.
- Bake for 18 minutes until golden brown. Turn the oven off, and let the pizza pockets sit for another 2 minutes.
- Mix together the garlic butter ingredients and brush the liquid on top of the pizza pockets.
- Serve with sausage gravy, salsa, or sriracha to dip. Enjoy!
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The Coined Breakdown
- Total Cost per serving: $0.40
- Total Cost (12 servings): $4.77
- Those Other Guys: $8.99 per serving
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