Pepperoni Pizza Egg Rolls Air Fryer

This is how to cook pizza egg rolls air fryer style or deep fried. Made with string these, these are amazing!! Almost as easy to make as air fryer frozen pizza rolls and your kids will love them too. A delicious appetizer or after school snack made with your favorite pizza toppings. A fun family friendly dinner idea.

Pepperoni Pizza Egg Rolls Recipe

We started this experiment with muffin tin pizzas and then moved on to how to cook pizza in the Crockpot. Those were amazing. It was on to this one now. You can fry them in a pan with some oil or just spray with a bit and “fry” them in your air fryer or Ninja Foodi too.

I love anything with lots of cheese! Anything easy that my kids can pick up and dunk into a sauce is a real winner in our house. Making pizza into egg rolls gets 5 thumbs up here. 😉 Get out all your favorite toppings and a jar of your favorite sauce and I’ll show you how to make them y’all.

Pizza Egg Rolls Ingredients

You can really stuff just about anything into egg roll or wonton wrappers you just have to think outside of the box a bit.

1. Egg roll wrappers or could make smaller with won ton wrappers – in fridge section near cheese at the store
2. String cheese or shredded mozzarella cheese
3. 1/2 cup to 1 full cup of Pepperoni – but I don’t really measure
4. Spaghetti sauce
5. Olives are good too
6. 1/4 cup water is used to secure open end of papers so it doesn’t come apart
7. Olive oil spray for air fryer or vegetable oil if frying

Literally you could make a batch of ground beef with a can of Manwich to make a fun filling. Then use that with a little cheese if you want that and wrap it up to create a few yummy. Let me tell you that kids just love these. Still drippy and messy but without all the thick carbs wrapped around the meat.

How to Make Pizza Egg Rolls in Air Fryer

If you do not want to submerge in vegetable oil and make these in a healthier way, prepare and then follow our air fryer egg rolls not frozen recipes. You just need a bit of olive oil cooking spray for this method. You can use a Ninja Foodi (with lid that is attached), AirWave or Cosori for this method but will explain both methods below;

1. Preheat to 380 for 5 minutes
2. Prepare rolls and spray inside with oil
3. Lay inside and generously spray the top of your rolls with olive oil
4. Air fry for a total of about 5-8 minutes, flip over halfway thru and spray tops again at that time until golden brown

Pizza Egg Rolls with String Cheese

What kind of cheese do you use to make pizza egg rolls?

Don’t bother with shredded, just go with string cheese to make things easier. It will melt well in the hot oil or if air fried just as well. Makes it easier to seal the edges well too so the filling doesn’t leak out. Mozzarella is best but they do offer half cheddar if you wanted to mix things up.

You don’t have to add meat at all, just 3 ingredients is the base. Start with a package of egg roll wrappers, spaghetti sauce, string cheese and any toppings you like on (or in) your pizza egg rolls. We used olives and pepperoni, sometimes just cheese for my little one. If you have picky eaters you don’t have to add a lot of things.

Just the sauce and cheese works just fine as well. You’ll want to have some sauce left over so you can use that as a dip at the end. Kinda’ like serving mozzarella sticks in a sense. Some might like some Ranch dressing like you would with pizza crust instead.

You can use mini pepperonis too but I couldn’t find those at the store this time. Spread a bit of sauce, pepperonis on top of that and cheese. Now leave a bit of room at the bottom of your wrapper and fold the sides in like a burrito as in picture 2. Then roll your wrapper over your cheese and keep rolling until you near the end.

How to seal egg rolls so they stick

You will want a small dish or cup of water next to your assembly line. Any liquid will work. Leave 1/2″ of wrapper at the end that has no filling on it. Before you roll it all the way up, dip your finger in the water and smear it on the edge of your egg roll wrapper. Then roll the rest over to make it stick together. Kind of works like glue on an envelope as it dries together.

How hot should oil be to fry egg rolls?

You can prep a bunch of these but do NOT add any into the oil until it reaches 350-360 degrees F. Reason for that is the wrapper will soak it up if it is hot hot enough to fry immediately, you don’t want that. If you don’t have a thermometer you can tear off a piece of wrapper and put it in the oil to see if it sizzles immediately, but not too hot that it burns quickly. Adjust flame if too hot that way.

Some are fatter than others, so timing will vary slightly because of the difference in size. Really easy to put together and surely your whole family will love these pizza egg rolls?

Fried Pizza Egg Rolls Recipe

1. On a cutting board lay an egg roll wrapper down. Spoon in a tbsp of sauce in the middle leaving 1″ on each side empty.
2. Add cheese on top of sauce and any toppings.
3. Fold sides of egg roll wrapper in, then roll up. Wet finger and wipe water on edge of wrapper and seal closed.
4. Once they are all ready to be fried add oil to pan on med. high heat.
   When the oil is hot, test with a pinch of wrapper into oil. If it immediately fries then it is ready.
5. Put filled rolls into oil and leave for about 2 minutes on each side so they are browned nicely.
6. Lay on paper towels when done so it can absorb oil.

More Unique Egg Rolls Fillings

This is just one of our favorite quick and easy recipes using egg roll wrappers. You can make them savory or sweet. There isn’t anything you can’t add inside to make these yummy.

• We have a number of sweet dessert egg rolls that are a hit around here.
• Our sloppy joe egg rolls are killer, a must try.
• Peach Cobbler Egg Rolls with pie filling show you how you can use a number of different fruit flavors.

Printable instructions and nutritional information such as saturated fat and calories listed below.