Turkey Sausage-Stuffed Pizza Pockets

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This amusive repast you tin devour with your hands is similar having a portion of pizza with each the champion toppings — sauce, cheese, sausage — wrapped up successful the crust. It’s adjacent much amusive erstwhile you person other condiment for dipping.

Two pockets marque for a filling meal, but 1 is simply a cleanable day snack. These besides marque for large game-day enactment food.

The sodium contented successful commercialized pizza dough and marinara condiment kicked this crockery extracurricular our modular for a "healthy" designation.

The baked, cooled pizza pockets tin beryllium wrapped successful integrative wrapper oregon foil and refrigerated for up to 4 days; reheat unwrapped connected a foil-lined baking expanse successful a 350-degree oven for 20 to 25 minutes. Wrapped, refrigerated baked pita pockets tin beryllium frozen successful a zip-top container for up to 3 months; reheat unwrapped, placing them straight into a 350-degree oven for 35 minutes oregon until heated through. Individual pita pockets tin beryllium microwaved unwrapped connected HIGH for 1 minute.

Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoonful olive oil
  • 8 ounces Italian turkey sausage, casings removed
  • 1/3 cupful homemade oregon elemental store-bought marinara, positive 1 optional cupful for serving
  • 4 cups lightly packed, chopped caller arugula oregon spinach
  • 1 tablespoonful cornmeal oregon flour, for the enactment surface
  • 1 lb whole-wheat pizza dough (defrosted if frozen)
  • 1 cupful shredded low-fat mozzarella cheese
  • 1 ample egg, lightly beaten
  • 2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    500

  • Fat

    20 g

  • Saturated Fat

    6 g

  • Carbohydrates

    55 g

  • Sodium

    1160 mg

  • Cholesterol

    85 mg

  • Protein

    29 g

  • Fiber

    5 g

  • Sugar

    3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “You Have It Made: Delicious, Healthy, Do-Ahead Meals,” by Ellie Krieger (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published January 4, 2016

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Updated March 15, 2026

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