Garlic & Ham Pizza Sliders
"In one hand I have a mound of fresh pizza dough. In the other a fresh tomato. I grab some pepperoni, some ham, cheese and of course a heaping bunch of mixed cheeses. A recipe in the making and I just can't wait to try them! I hope you enjoy these too!"
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (264.6 g)
- Calories 743.9
- Total Fat - 46.9 g
- Saturated Fat - 23 g
- Cholesterol - 113.3 mg
- Sodium - 1673.1 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 54.3 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.6 g
- Sugars - 1.5 g
- Protein - 25.8 g
- Calcium - 337.4 mg
- Iron - 4.6 mg
- Vitamin C - 7.4 mg
- Thiamin - 0.9 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Preheat oven to 450 degrees
Step 2
Put pizza dough on cookie sheet or cutting board or whatever
Step 3
Sprinkle flour over dough to allow for easier handling
Step 4
Cut mound of pizza dough in 8 slices using a bread cutting knife (knife with jagged edges seems to work best)
Step 5
Take each slice of the dough, roll in your hands to make a long string like piece with the slice of dough
Step 6
Tie the dough like string in a loose knot
Step 7
Fold the end pieces over to create a round knot like shape
Step 8
Grease a 9" x 13" pan
Step 9
Please each 'dough knot' in the pan so you have 4 across, 2 down - be sure to leave good amount of room around edges of pan and ensure each knot touches the one next one, including the two rows
Step 10
Put pan with pizza knots in oven and bake for 12 minutes - be sure the tops are golden and pizza dough cooked throughout
Step 11
Take out of oven, let cool a little bit and turn oven down to 350 degrees
Step 12
With a large bread knife, slice the tops of the pizza dough knots horizontally
Step 13
Take the pizza dough top off, being very careful not to separate the individual dough knots and place aside
Step 14
Layer the following: ham over the bottom pizza dough, pizza sauce, pepperoni, and then generously apply the cheese
Step 15
Place the top pizza dough knots back on top (if some of the knots broke off, don't worry too much. The melted cheese will meld them together again!)
Step 16
Melt butter in bowl, insert oregano, basil leaves and garlic in butter (good idea to cut them into smaller pieces) and mix together
Step 17
With a food brush, dip into the above mixture and brush over top of pizza knots
Step 18
Put back into over and bake for 10 minutes more
Step 19
Serve and let family/friends or just you!!! rip apart the sliders and do enjoy :)
Tips
No special items needed.