Recipe for the best pizza snails

The perfect pizza snail should be both chewy, airy, soft and crispy at the same time. With lots of delicious filling and a dough that is slightly crispy and beautifully golden on the surface, without becoming dry. This recipe gives you exactly such snails. The dough is incredibly easy to work with, and it can easily "carry" a lot of filling without it flowing out or the snails collapsing. That's why you get some really good pizza snails!

TIP: Also try this recipe: pizza rolls or tortilla pizzas

Pizza snails with vegetables

You can easily add some extra vegetables to the filling. This makes it possible to sneak a little more green into the meal without it tasting like that. Typically, the vegetables are grated carrots or squash, but you can also add small cubes of bell pepper or baked pumpkin or eggplant. 

TIP: Other lunch box hits are sausage horn, soft carrot break, pierogi and chocolate rye.

Dough for pizza snails

The dough for the pizza snails is made from wheat flour and whole wheat flour. You can use regular wheat flour, but it is really delicious to use tipo 00 wheat flour, just like for the pizza base recipe. This is because the flour contains a lot of protein/gluten, and therefore you get a strong dough that is easy to knead, stretch and shape. If you want to bake the snails without whole wheat flour, you can easily do so. In that case, you can replace it with a slightly larger amount of regular wheat flour. This is because whole wheat absorbs more liquid, so you need a little more finely sifted flour if you omit the whole wheat flour.   

Pizza snail filling

You can make the pizza snails with all sorts of different fillings. The most popular variant in Denmark is the classic one with homemade tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese and ham.

• Ricotta cheese, thawed chopped spinach (squeeze the liquid from the spinach) and grated Parmesan cheese
• Green pesto and mozzarella.
• Goat cheese and caramelized red onions
• Grated carrot and red pesto
• Spinach and artichoke hearts a la this pizza