Air Fryer Mini Calzones
One of the best ways to use an air fryer is as a mini oven that won’t heat up your whole kitchen for party snacks. You can turn out batch after batch of wings, mozzarella sticks, and, yes, mini calzones that are warm, crispy, and delightfully nostalgic from a single air fryer.
These mini calzones use prepared pizza dough to make delicious pockets filled with gooey cheese, piquant tomato sauce, and spicy pepperoni that are perfect for parties, after-school snacks, or for satisfying your craving for the pizza rolls of your youth.
Easy Air Fryer Calzones
Air fryers are particularly adept at making baked goods that taste more like fried foods, meaning these calzones are more tender-crisp than anything your oven can produce. To avoid cleaning cheese out of your air fryer basket midway through each batch, be sure to tightly seal each pocket. First, pinch the dough closed with your fingers, then press it closed with the tines of a fork.
For parties or celebrations, you can air fry these in batches to serve immediately, or cook them in batches in advance and reheat six to eight at a time on the low setting of the air fryer.
Air Fryer Mini Calzones
These mini calzones use prepared pizza dough to make delicious pockets filled with cheese and pepperoni that are perfect for parties or after school snacks
Ingredients
- All-purpose flour, for rolling out the dough
- 1 pound pizza dough, at room temperature at least 1 hour
- 1 cup pizza sauce, plus more for dipping
- 8 ounces shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 6 ounces thinly sliced pepperoni or mini pepperoni, chopped
Instructions
- On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pizza dough until 1/4-inch thick. Use a 3-inch round cutter or a large glass to cut out 8 to 10 rounds of dough. Transfer the rounds to a parchment paper-lined baking sheet. Gather up the dough scraps, then reroll and repeat cutting out rounds until you have 16.
- Top each round with 2 teaspoons of sauce, 1 tablespoon of cheese, and 1 teaspoon of pepperoni. Working with one dough round at a time, fold in half, then pinch the edges together to seal. When each calzone is sealed, use a fork to crimp the edges closed to further seal.
- Heat the airfryer to 375°F. Working in batches of 4, air fry the calzones until golden brown and crisp, about 8 minutes. Serve with additional pizza sauce for dipping, if desired.
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