How To Make Frozen Pizza Rolls In The Air Fryer

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Frozen pizza rolls are a fast snack that everyone loves. Forget using your oven to bake them or the microwave to warm them. Frozen pizza rolls made in the air fryer are the way to go! They turn out crispy every time.

You’ll love using the air fryer to make crispy pizza rolls. They cook up fast with no prep time and no need to warm up your oven. Anytime someone wants a quick snack they can whip them up in just a few minutes. Check out the tips below and enjoy some air fry pizza rolls!

How To Make Frozen Pizza Rolls In The Air Fryer

It really doesn’t take much to make these air fryer pizza rolls. Air frying is the perfect way to cook them because it is so quick, with no added oil, yet they turn out perfectly crispy.

What you’ll need to make these air fryer pizza rolls:

Totino’s Pizza Rolls – I get the Totino’s brand of pizza rolls. They come in a wide variety of flavors. Choose your favorite one. You can find pizza rolls in the frozen food section of your local grocery store. They often sell small boxes or bags. Check out your local warehouse store such as Costco or Bj’s for larger sized bags.

Air fryer – I have two air fryers that my family has been using to make all our air fryer foods (Power XL and a Cosori air fryer). They are different sizes and the pizza rolls cook up the same in both of them. This should work in your brand of air fryer as well.

Tongs –I have several pairs of silicone covered tongs. They are great for taking food out of the air fryer.

Directions to make pizza rolls in the air fryer:

Start by preheating your air fryer to 380 degrees F according to your air fryer’s directions. As these pizza rolls don’t cook that long, I have found preheating the air fryer for 2 or 3 minutes is enough so the air fryer ready to cook the pizza rolls.

Add in the pizza rolls in a single layer to the preheated air fryer. Touching is ok but you don’t want them piled up on each out. That keeps them from getting crispy. Plus you will want to have a little room to shake or turn the pizza rolls over so they cook up evenly.

Air fry the pizza rolls at 380 degrees F for 5 to 6 minutes. Give the air fryer basket a good shake to move the pizza rolls around or use tongs to turn them over.

Air fry for another 3 to 4 minutes or until the pizza rolls are golden brown and crispy.

Cooking times can vary from one air fryer to another. If you find that your pizza rolls aren’t cooked through then cook them for an additional 2 minutes and check for doneness.

PIZZA ROLL TIP: The inside of the pizza roll will be very hot even though they have not had a long cook time. Always be careful when biting into them.

How Do You Keep Pizza Rolls From Exploding?

If you may pizza rolls then you’ve seen that there are some that explode while cooking. This is caused by the sauce and cheese in the center heating quickly and forming steam. The steam has to go somewhere so it will cause the tomato sauce and gooey cheese to explode out of the side of the pizza roll.

There are several things you can do to cut down on the number of pizza rolls that explode. You can start by breaking up the cooking time and allowing the pizza rolls a short cool down period before finishing the cooking. If the total cooking time if 8 minutes then you can try cooking for 4 minutes, allow a 2 to 3 minute cool down period and then cooking for the remaining 4 minutes.

You can also try to provide a spot for the steam to escape while the pizza rolls are cooking. The seams of the dough are sealed to keep the contents inside. By poking a small hole in the dough this can allow the steam to escape and not build up.

To me this seems like a whole lot of work just to get pretty pizza rolls that are going to be quickly gobbled up in the end. The pizza rolls that have sauce leaking out taste just as delicious as the others so I don’t bother trying to solve this issue.

How To Store Pizza Rolls:

Store any leftover pizza rolls in an airtight container in the refrigerator. For best flavor and texture use within 3 days.

How To Reheat Pizza Rolls:

You can reheat the pizza rolls in the air fryer to make crunchy pizza rolls. Place in a single layer in the air fryer basket and heat at 380 degrees F for 2 minutes or until they are warmed through and the crust has started to crisp up a bit.

Do I Need To Spray The Basket?

No you don’t have to spray your air fryer basket with oil or cooking spray before making pizza rolls. Add them directly to the basket and air fry. Air fryer baskets are already have a non stick surface and the pizza rolls aren’t cooked long enough to stick to it.

You also don’t need to line your air fryer basket with a piece of parchment paper. However, if you want to cut down on clean up of the air fryer basket you can use the parchment liner or a silicone liner to make clean up easier.

What Can I Serve With Air Fry Pizza Rolls?

You can enjoy your delicious pizza rolls just as they are or serve them with your favorite dipping sauce. We’ve tried lots of things such as marinara sauce, extra pizza sauce, ketchup, BBQ sauce, ranch dressing and sour cream.

You can dress up your pizza rolls a little more by topping them with one of these:

• Parmesan cheese, mozzarella cheese or your favorite shredded cheese
• Garlic Butter
• Bacon bits
• Diced pepperoni slices
• Pesto sauce – mix a bit of pesto into sour cream or mayonnaise
• Tangy Ketchup
• Chili Cheese Dip

Want to turn your pizza rolls into an easy appetizer to serve to family and friends? Then try this Garlic Butter topped air fryer pizza rolls recipe. They take your Totinos pizza rolls from after school snack to a crowd favorite party appetizer.

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