This is one of my favorite all time things to eat when I am craving pizza.  Since I like to eat small amounts of food at a time, and I like to have my individual smaller portions, I love that this recipe makes individual pizza sticks.  This recipe serves between 6-10 people (depending on how much you eat), so you can always cut it down to a smaller portion for yourself or you can serve it as an appetizer for a party.

What you will need:

Dough/Pizza Sticks

1 10oz Tube of instant pizza dough

3 Cups of Vegetable oil for frying

1 ¾ Cups grated mozzarella cheese

1/4 Cup grated fresh Parmesan cheese

1/2 tsp dried oregano

1/4 tsp dried basil

1/4 tsp caraway seeds

1/4 tsp garlic salt

Marinara Sauce (my favorite)

1 8oz Can of tomato sauce

1 tomato, chopped

1 TBS diced onion

1 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp dried oregano

1/8 tsp salt

1/8 tsp dried basil

Preheat your oven to 425° F degrees.

Marinara Sauce:  In a small saucepan on medium-high heat, combine tomato sauce, tomato, diced onion, sugar, dried oregano, salt and basil.  Stir mixture and bring the sauce to a boil.  Reduce the heat to low, cover, and let the sauce simmer for a half an hour.

Pizza Sticks:  Open up your can of instant pizza dough.  Roll out the dough, flattening all the edges so that it makes a long rectangle.  Use a pizza cutter to cut down the middle of the dough (length wise), so that you end up with two long rectangles each measuring around 4-5 inches in height.  Take your pizza cutter and slice the dough (shorter length) up and down, making each slice about 1 ½ to 2 inches wide.  This should produce between 20-24 ‘sticks’.

Place the dough onto a greased cookie sheet about ½ inch apart from each other and bake for 3 minutes.  It is okay if you have to use more than one cookie sheet.

Heat your vegetable oil in a deep frying pan or deep fryer (350° F degrees).  In your frying pan, the vegetable oil should be at least ½ inch deep (and of course more if you are using a deep fryer). 

Fry between 4-6 (depending on the size of your frying pan) pizza sticks for about 1 minute on each side, or until they are golden brown.  Remove from the oil with tongs and place on a cookie sheet (with a paper towel beneath for the oil to drip on).  Once they have cooled, pat them with a paper towel to drain any excess oil.

Preheat your broiler.

Once all the pizza dough has been baked and fried, arrange them onto the cookie sheet.  You can place the pizza sticks close together, which will make putting on the ingredients easier.  Sprinkle the mozzarella cheese evenly over the dough.  Then sprinkle the parmesan cheese evenly over the mozzarella.

In a small bowl, combine the oregano, basil, caraway seeds, and garlic salt.  Mix the blend together, then sprinkle the spices over the cheese.

Broil the pizza sticks for about 2 minutes or until the cheese is melted. Serve hot with your marinara sauce and enjoy these yummy appetizing pizza sticks!