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Pizzazzy Sausage Crescent Sandwich

This sandwich is part pizza, and part sandwich, thus the name. It contains a sausage filling nestled inside a crescent dough pocket.

I came across the recipe in a book that is published by Pillsbury called Pillsbury Christmas 2011. I think they put out an edition every year for the Holidays. All the recipes contained in it use a Pillsbury product in some way. Crescent roll dough is extremely popular as a basis for what seemed like “hundreds” of recipes. This is just one of them that I thought sounded good and looked like it would be easy to make. I was correct on one count; they are very tasty and can be eaten with the hands or a knife and fork. While they are not difficult to make, working with perforated crescent dough, that needs to be pinched together can be a bit fiddly. I never seem to be successful at keeping it all together. Even though mine did not turn out looking as perfect as the picture in the book, we enjoyed them non-the-less with a bowl of soup on a very cold evening.

Pizzazzy Crescent Sandwich with hot soup.

PIZZAZZY SAUSAGE CRESCENT SANDWICH

Yield: Make 8

Crescent Rolls provide the dough for this filled sandwich.

Ingredients:

1 pound bulk Italian sausage
1/2 cup chopped bell pepper
1/3 cup chopped onion
1 jar pizza sauce
2 cans refrigerated Crescent Rolls
4 slices mozzarella cheese, each halved crosswise

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375*F. In a skillet, cook the sausage, chopped pepper and onion until the pork is no longer pink and the vegetables are tender. Drain. Stir in 3 Tablespoons pizza sauce. Allow to cool slightly.

2. Unroll crescent dough. Make 8 rectangles, pinching seams together to seal.

3. Put about 2 – 3 tablespoons of sausage mixture at one end of each rectangle.