If you are a pizza lover, then bookmark this recipe right away. Flavours of pizza packed in a small bread pocket will be the ultimate answer to your pizza cravings. With just a handful of ingredients like bread, pizza sauce, garlic, onion, capsicum, corn, carrot, cheese, oregano, chilli flakes and salt, you can make scrumptious pizza pockets at the comfort of your home. You can also add chopped black olives and jalapenos to make the pocket more pizza-like. If you have kids at home, then you need to try this recipe as the kids will love it for sure. The best thing about this recipe is that the bread pockets are not fried. You can shallow fry them in minimal oil and still get tasty and crispy pizza pockets. We have used 2 grated cheese cubes in the recipe, however, you can increase the quantity of cheese depending on how cheesy you want your snack to be. Serve the snack with ketchup or any other dip to make it wholesome. Pair up Bread Pizza Pockets with cold drink of your choice or a hot beverage like tea or coffee and enjoy. Do try this recipe, rate it and let us know how it turned out to be by leaving a comment in the section below. Happy Cooking!
Ingredients of Bread Pizza Pocket
- 6 slices bread slices
- 1 medium capsicum (green pepper)
- 1 small carrot
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes
- 2 cheese cubes
- salt as required
- 1 medium onion
- 3 tablespoon corn
- 3 tablespoon pizza sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon oregano
- 4 cloves garlic
- 4 tablespoon vegetable oil
How to make Bread Pizza Pocket
Step 1 Saute garlic and onionHeat 1 tbsp oil in a pan. Add minced garlic and chopped onion. Saute for a minute.
Step 2 Saute the veggiesNow add finely chopped carrot, capsicum and corn. Saute for 2-3 minutes.
Step 3 Add spicesNow add salt as per taste, oregano and chilli flakes. Saute for a minute.
Step 4 Add sauce and cheeseLastly, add pizza sauce and grated cheese. Saute for a minute and switch off the flame. Your filling mixture is ready.
Step 5 Make bread pocketsTake a bread slice and trim the edges. Use a rolling pin to flatten the bread. Add 1-2 tbsp filling to the bread and spread it a bit. Apply a few drops of water on all the sides of the bread and fold the bread in half. Press down on all sides to seal the edges. Applying water helps in sealing the pocket properly. Repeat this step to make more such pockets with the remaining bread slices and filling.
Step 6 Shallow fry the pocketsHeat 3 tbsp oil in a non-stick pan. Once hot, place all the pockets in the pan. Shallow fry from both sides until golden brown in colour.
Step 7 Ready to be servedServe the Bread Pizza Pockets with tomato ketchup and enjoy.
Tips
- To make the bread pockets cheesier, you can line the bread slice with cheese slice and then fill the mixture in it.