Description
These vegan "meatball" pizza pinwheels are all the things you love about pizza, rolled up into a delicious bun that is satisfying cheesy and loaded with flavor.
Ingredients
Scale
Pizza Dough with no Yeast
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup spelt flour or white wheat flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp dry oregano
- 1/2 tsp dry basil
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup water
Easy Pizza Sauce
- 1/2 6 oz can tomato paste
- 1/2 tsp dry oregano
- 1/2 tsp dry basil
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 2 tsp brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp red pepper flakes (optional)
Pizza Pinwheels
- 1 pizza dough
- 1/3 cup pizza sauce
- 6 frozen meatballs (I used Gardein)
- 1/2 cup shredded vegan cheese
Instructions
Make Pizza Sauce
- In a sauce pan, add all ingredients for the pizza sauce and stir to combine. Bring to a simmer and cook for about 5 minutes on low-medium heat. Once slightly thickened, remove from heat and set aside.
Make Pizza Dough
- In a medium mixing bowl, add all dry ingredients and mix together.
- Add in water and mix together with a spoon until a dough ball starts to form.
- Get hands into the dough and start kneading together to form a smooth dough.
- Take dough to a floured surface., and knead for 2-3 minutes. Set dough aside for 2-3 minutes to rest as you prepare remaining ingredients.
Assembling the Pizza
- Set oven to 375F. Prepare meatballs according to the package and then chop into small pieces.
- Taking your pizza dough, place dough on a smooth surface and flatten dough with a rolling pin to form a thin rectangular dough.
- Evenly, spread pizza sauce over the top of the flattened dough.
- Sprinkle meatballs and cheese evenly over top of the dough.
- Starting at one end of the long side of the dough, carefully start pinching and rolling dough into a tight log like you would a cinnamon roll.
- Once fully rolled, cut the roll into 6 equal pizza rolls.
- Place rolls in rows of two in a bread pan. Place pan into the oven for 20 minutes.
- Remove pan from oven and sprinkle an additional handful of cheese over top. Place pan back into the oven for another 5 minutes to allow cheese to melt.
- Remove pan from oven and allow to set for 5 minutes. Cut pieces out to serve with extra pizza sauce.
Notes
- You can use 1 to 1 gluten free flour to make the dough gluten free. Just add an extra 1 tsp of baking powder.
- You can opt for other fillings. I made a great one using cooked lentils in place of meatballs and some minced kale for some extra greens.
- Don’t want pizza sauce? You can always try a vegan pesto sauce instead.
- I prefer using the Gardein Vegan meatballs for this because I like the extra fennel in them, but feel free to use whatever meatballs you prefer.