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Whether you have children, are hosting a casual party, or just love finger food, then you’ve probably cooked frozen pizza rolls. These tasty, bite-sized mini-pizzas are a delicious party favorite no matter how they’re prepared, but you haven’t experienced them at their best unless you’ve air-fried pizza rolls with an air fryer.
Oven/Microwave Prep vs. Air Frying Frozen Pizza Rolls
Because preparing food in a deep fryer is unhealthy, most adults preparing pizza rolls typically choose to bake them in the oven or prepare them in the microwave. However, even when baked at a high temperature and turned half-way through, the pizza rolls often come out with a soggy, uneven finish. When heated in the microwave, pizza rolls will be heated through, but they’ll have a limp, rubbery finish that will give them an unappealing, gummy texture. They still taste okay, but wouldn’t it be better if they were cooked all the way through with a crisp, golden finish?
Nothing cooks pizza rolls as well as an air fryer, period.
That’s where the air fryer comes in.
Cooking Pizza Rolls in Air Fryer
Since no oil is needed for cooking pizza rolls in an air fryer, you can prepare these with no added fat or calories. An added bonus is that the air fryer will save at least 15 minutes since there is no need to preheat first. Plus, these pizza rolls are cooked to perfection in only seven minutes, which makes using an air fryer more appealing than the deep fryer, oven, or microwave.
Try one of these frozen food air fryer recipes:
Prepare perfect pizza rolls in your air fryer in minutes
- 1 bag frozen pizza rolls depending on the size of your air fryer, you might need to prepare in two batches
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Cook at 380°F | 180°C for 8 minutes
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Shake the pizza rolls when 4 minutes are left in cooking time.
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Plate and enjoy!
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Extremely hot be careful let cool
too late
LOL yeah burnt the hell out of the roof of my mouth
Your Post always made me get more idea for night weekends with Netflix. Thank you for this. I will go on following your recipe. Keep sharing!
Jimmy
Could I wrap them in tin foil before putting them in?
Hi, Zay – I don’t know why you’d want to. I’m pretty sure the foil would just trap the moisture in and make for soggy pizza rolls.
I wrap the bottom “shelf” in foil to catch the melted cheese.
Just came here to say, I’ve been using this recipe for months now, it’s LIFE CHANGING. I will never use the oven for them again, it saves so much time. No preheating, and they come out so much crispier! I have the Cosori brand AF, and 7 minutes usually has the filling spilling out. 5-6 minutes seems to be the sweet spot for me! Sometimes, I also forget to shake them halfway, but they still turn out great! Not sure I notice a difference. I probably use my AF for pizza rolls more than anything else.. *TIP* dip them in ranch or blue cheese dressing, it’s AMAZING! You could also brush them with olive oil or butter and put Italian seasoning and/or parmesan.. YUM! Thank you so much for a simple, yet perfect way to cook pizza rolls! Brb, making some now
So glad to know this, Christie!
This particular suggestion has forever changed how I air-fry pizza rolls. Thank you so much! Enjoying a perfect Corsori air-fried batch that has no leakage and maximum taste. Thanks Christie! Air Fryer watchers don’t let this pass you by.
Then you just have a normal oven ur voiding the benefit of the force convection
worked perfectly! Thank you and yes they do need to cool off before eating one of them.
Is there anyway to prevent them from exploding? Almost every time I make them the filling ends up blowing out of them lol. Sometimes ill poke a hole in all of them and it sometimes helps but its a pain.
Dante, poking holes in each one would be the only way I know to prevent the internal combustion. 🙂
Try cooking less time in air fryer I had same issue and cooked for a little less time and they no longer exploded.
Shake them every two minutes instead of at the 3 minute mark
I love my air fryer and these mini pizza rolls are the perfect bites to cook in them! Now, I know what my go-to snack would be!
Thanks! This worked great. I have a Philips air fryer and just did a bag of frozen pizza rolls and they turned out perfectly. Quick and easy!
My first batch bursted cause I didn’t check on them. The next batch came out perfect when I didn’t leave the air fryer.
Do you have to cook in a single layer, or can you just pour them into the basket and cook?
Hi, MB – Yes, we highly recommend cooking in a single layer. They will cook faster and more evenly in one layer. If you need to layer them due to size of basket and/or time constraints, shake or stir them multiple times during the cooking process and expect it to take longer.
Omg! Pizza rolls are so much better this way. Perfectly crispy, and so easy to do!
Dear Oven,
I ain’t gonna miss you!!Good riddenz!! Lol
So much better than microwaved. Really enjoyed and can’t wait for hubby to taste them like this❤️
I cooked mine following your instructions, except I preheated. They were a little too done. I’ll either not preheat or reduce time next time.
Hi John. Each air fryer is unique, I have one that heats 20% over temp, and another(Emeril) that heats 20% under temp. So, use the directions as a baseline, while keeping a watchful eye on your Pizza rolls. Nobody wants ruined pizza rolls, those things are like gold.
These turned out amazing! This recipe is now a staple in my house 🙂
Dear airfrying.net owner, Thanks for the informative post!
They better in oven. Your statement false, it dry my pizza rolls op and flavor bad, air dryer rolls no good
Dear Dong, I totally disagree with you. Pizza rolls are very soggy in the oven. Frozen Pizza Rolls are darn near custom made for an air fryer.
Very informative article. I will share it with my friends.