This delicious and easy homemade vegan pizza rolls recipe is made with gooey melted vegan mozzarella and ricotta cheese, our homemade 4 ingredient vegan pizza sauce, easy to make vegan pizza dough, and any of your favorite veggies, jackfruit, or vegan pepperoni or sausage. Ready in less than 45 minutes!
These vegan pizza rolls are a throw back to the Totino's pizza rolls or Hot Pockets that we used to eat in high school.
Those pepperoni and cheese filled pizza pockets were not the healthiest snacks, so we reinvented them.
These are filled with vegan cheese shreds, marinara sauce or pizza sauce, jackfruit to give them a meaty texture, and a crispy pizza dough crust. They're easy to make and delicious.
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Ingredients
Here's a list of the ingredients you'll need with a labeled photo.
- Vegan Pizza Dough - You can make our homemade pizza dough or buy ready made. Whole Foods makes a great pizza dough that you can get from their deli area.
- Marinara or Pizza Sauce - Again, you can make one of our tomato based sauces, or buy one if you're in a hurry.
- Vegan Mozzarella Shreds - We recommend Violife or Daiya vegan cheese shreds. They both melt well.
- Vegan Ricotta Cheese - This adds a rich and creamy texture that takes the pizza rolls to another level. Kite Hill makes a great vegan ricotta.
- Jackfruit - We add shredded young green jackfruit to give the pizza rolls a heartier texture. You can add veggies, such as chopped spinach, mushrooms, or bell peppers, or vegan pepperoni and/or sausage.
Instructions
Here are simple step-by-step instructions with visual cues.
- Flour a clean surface to knead the pizza dough. Use all-purpose or whole wheat flour.
- Knead the dough until it's firm and roll it into a ball and let it rest for 15 minutes.
3. Knead the dough a few more times.
4. Tear the dough into two equal pieces.
5. Roll both pieces of dough into thin rectangles, approximately an ⅛th of an inch thick.
6. Add dollops of the vegan ricotta cheese evenly spaced an inch apart and about an inch away from the outer edge of the dough.
7. Add the pizza sauce.
8. Sprinkle on the cheese shreds and jackfruit, or anything else that you're adding to the pizza pockets.
9. Place the second piece of dough over the dough with the filling.
10. Press the dough in-between each dollop of filling so the two pieces of dough are pressed together.
11. With a sharp knife, slice through the long part of the pizza dough.
12. Slice through the short part of the dough to make squares.
13. Once you slice each pizza roll, press the edges closed. Brush the edges with a small amount of water if they don't stick together.
14. They should look like the one above.
15. Bake the pizza rolls in a preheated 375°F oven for approximately 12 minutes per side, or until they're golden brown.
Variations
- Spicy - Add crushed red pepper to the sauce to add heat to the rolls.
- Deluxe - Customize the vegan pizza bites by adding finely chopped pineapple, vegan ham, and fresh basil, or add any combination of your favorite pizza ingredients.
- Kid Friendly - Fill the rolls with macaroni and cheese or just cheese and sauce for those who have a simpler palette.
- Deep Fried - If you want extra crispy pizza rolls, you can deep fry them.
- Gluten-Free - Use a gluten-free pizza dough to make these dairy-free pizza rolls GF.
Meal Prepping
You can make these rolls into a meal by serving with a salad.
Make the dough and sauce a day or two before and store in the refrigerator until you're ready to put them together and bake them.
You can also make them up to four days ahead of time and reheat them in a 350°F (176°C) oven until warmed through.
Recipe FAQs and Storage & Freezing
Are pizza rolls healthy?
Not really, although this recipe is made with dairy free cheese and is baked instead of fried, so much better than the kind filled with dairy and meat.
We love dipping them in pizza sauce, marinara sauce, BBQ sauce, and vegan buffalo sauce.
Yes, this recipe is vegan and Amy's pizza rolls are vegan. Totino's rolls are definitely not vegan.
Store these in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Crisp up in the oven.
Freeze in a freezer safe container for up to 2 months. Reheat in a 350°F (176°C) oven.
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Easy Vegan Pizza Rolls
Equipment
- 1 Rolling Pin
- 1 sharp knife
- 1 Oven
Ingredients
- 1 batch of pizza dough see recipe link below (See Note).
- 2 cups pizza sauce see recipe link below or purchase your favorite brand.
- 2 cups vegan ricotta see recipe link below or purchase. We prefer Kite Hill ricotta.
- 1 cup vegan mozzarella shredded, we prefer Miyoko’s (shred with box shreddeor Violife.
- 15 ounces young green jackfruit in water
Optional
- Vegan pepperoni or sausage optional
- Olive oil optional
Instructions
Make the pizza dough.
Make the pizza sauce
- Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C)
- Drain, rinse, and shred the jackfruit.
- Leave a 1-inch border on the edge of one side of the dough and make a line of vegan ricotta, leaving space between each dollop, along the length of the dough.
- Top each dollop of ricotta with the pizza sauce and then sprinkle with the vegan mozzarella.
- Fold the dough over the line of cheese and sauce and use the back of a knife to press the dough down between each dollop.
- Cut the pizza rolls out and press and fold the edges. Place each pizza roll on a baking sheet and brush with a thin layer of olive oil (optional).
- Bake for approximately 12 minutes per side, or until golden brown and crispy.
- Dip in warm pizza sauce.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Variations
- Spicy - Add crushed red pepper to the sauce to add heat to the rolls.
- Deluxe - Customize the vegan pizza bites by adding finely chopped pineapple, vegan ham, and fresh basil, or add any combination of your favorite pizza ingredients.
- Kid Friendly - Fill the rolls with macaroni and cheese or just cheese and sauce for those who have a simpler palette.
- Deep Fried - If you want extra crispy pizza rolls, you can deep fry them.
- Gluten-Free - Use a gluten-free pizza dough to make these dairy-free pizza rolls GF.
- Storage and Freezing
Store these in the refrigerator for up to 4 days. Crisp up in the oven.
Freeze in a freezer safe container for up to 2 months. Reheat in a 350°F (176°C) oven.
Christine @ Run Plant Based says
This is such a fun recipe and looks delicious. Thanks!
Linda Meyer says
Thanks so much, Christine!