Pizza Puffs

We made these as an hors d'oeuvres for our family's Thanksgiving get together.


We used our tomato sauce for dipping, though we pureed it first and added a few pinches of red pepper flakes to spice it up a bit. You can take it up another notch and use hot sausage instead of regular pork sausage.

The original recipe comes from the Plain Chicken blog.

Makes: 4 dozen or so
Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 14-18 minutes
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Ingredients:

• 1 pound bulk sausage
• 1/2 cup pepperoni, chopped
• 2 t Italian seasoning
• 3 cups Bisquick
• 4 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
• about 1 cup buttermilk
• Our tomato sauce, pureed (or store-bought pizza sauce) for dipping

1. Preheat oven to 400 F.

2. Heat a skillet over medium-high heat. Crumble the sausage into the skillet and cook until done. Remove to a paper towel-lined plate.

3. In a large bowl, combine the Bisquick, Italian seasoning, and cheese. Add pepperoni and the sausage.

4. Add most of a cup of buttermilk and combine well with a fork. You may need to add more buttermilk. You want the batter to be moist, but not runny.

5. Form batter into 1 1/2" balls and place on baking sheets, 2" apart. Bake 12-18 minutes or until browned. We ended up using 4 sheets and had to bake them in batches.

6. Serve hot with warm dipping sauce.