Jalapeno Pizza Balls

So I had an experiment with pizza and having it bite size, and I came up with pizza balls.

Jalapeno Pizza Ball

What you need:

• Bread dough
• mozzarella cheese, grated
• 2 pickled jalapeno peppers, seeded
• tomato paste
• garlic, 2-3 cloves
• egg-wash (one egg whisked with 1-2 tablespoons of milk)
• some dried herbs of your choice

How to make Pizza Balls:

• First of all heat the oven up to 180 degrees Celsius.
• Chop up the jalapeno and the garlic finely, and then to make things easier, mix these two ingredients with the tomato paste.
• Then take a ball of raw bread dough, the size of a smallish tennis ball.

flatten dough

• Flatten the dough slightly

smear paste with jalapeno & garlic

• Smear the paste mixture onto the flattened dough

Add mozzarella

• Top up with mozzarella cheese

fold dough edges towards the middle

• Fold the sides over the cheese, making sure you don't tear the dough at the bottom.

fold dough edges towards the middle

pinch the dough

• Pinch the dough so that the edges stick 

raw jalapeno pizza balls

• If your dough ball is flat, gently hold the dough and form a ball. Then place these balls onto a greased baking pan.

egg-washed & sprinkled with herbs

• 'Paint' egg-wash onto balls and sprinkle your herb of choice over. Bake for 45minutes or until golden brown.

Jalapeno Pizza Ball done!

Jalapeno Pizza Ball cut in half

Tips:

• You can add any pizza toppings of your choice
• Instead of herbs on top of the balls, you can add some diced bacon or cheddar
• I used brown bread dough, but white bread dough is just as nice.