Stuffed Sausage Bundles | What’s Cookin’ Italian Style Cuisine

Our bundles can be made with refrigerated dough, pizza dough, or even phyllo frozen dough and we have a variety of filling suggestions you can choose to substitute in your filling mixture.

This dough is so versatile it can be all meat and cheese or vegetables for those who don’t eat meat these can be all made vegetarian.

Even deli meats work great diced so use your favorite roast beef, or ham, to take a shortcut from cooking the sausage.

Just scroll down the recipe card for these easy printable instructions to make these delicious easy appetizers.

Easy Step-By-Step Italian Sausage Stuffed Bundles

1. open the crescent rolls can (using any brand or pizza dough) and cut them lengthwise into two strips or squares
2. if using raw meats cook them first  and drain the fat or use pepperoni, salami, or another deli meat preferred
3. add the mix-ins you prefer to your cream cheese
4. fill  on the larger end and roll them up into balls
5. bake in muffin tins
6. serve with warm marinara or pizza sauce

Other Additions and Suggestions for Sausage Bundles

1. cooked prosciutto or bacon chopped
2. substitute any brand of refrigerator biscuits for pizza dough or phyllo dough
3. hot capicola, salami, or another deli meat
4. any vegetables diced tomatoes, chopped mushrooms, eggplant, zucchini (needs to be blotted dry)
5. chives or scallions
6. breakfast cooked sausage drained
7. cayenne pepper
8. jalapeno peppers, banana peppers chopped
9. bell peppers or hot peppers
10. fresh spinach chopped, chopped broccoli rabe,  escarole, or another cooked green you like
11. chopped artichoke hearts blotted dry
12. chopped asparagus
13. any kind of shredded cheese you prefer over cheddar
14. any kind of diced cooked seafood
15. use fresh herbs instead of dried

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Author: Claudia Lamascolo

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Stuffed Sausage Bundles

Little Bundles of stuffed dough filled with Italian cooked sausage, and cheese for the perfect bite in an appetizer.

Prep time: 10 MinCook time: 15 MinTotal time: 25 Min

Ingredients

• 1 pound package of loose Italian sausage cooked and drained or any other cooked meat you prefer, ( seasoned ground beef, seasoned ground pork, deli meats chopped, etc).
• Note: Mini pepperoni can be substituted for sausage then omit the sausage
• 2- 3 ounce packages of cream cheese, softened at room temperature
• 2 cans of refrigerated crescent rolls, or 1 pound of pizza dough (phyllo frozen dough thawed can also be used and cut into squares and made into stuffed bundles.
• 1 tablespoon Italian seasoning of dried herbs ( and more the top before baking)
• 1 teaspoon granulated garlic powder
• 1 cup shredded trio of blended cheeses (cheddar cheese, provolone, and jack cheese is what I use or Colby)
• Parmesan cheese grated sprinkle on top before baking
• cooking oil spray or olive oil
• Optional: grated Parmesan cheese on top when serving, warmed pizza sauce or marinara sauce

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or cooking oil spray.
2. In a large frying pan saute the loose sausage until all the pin is gone.
3. Drain and place in a large mixing bowl.
4. Whip the cream cheese with a hand mixer until soft and smooth,
5. Add some of the sausage, shredded cheese, herbs, and garlic powder.
6. Blended evenly.
7. Roll out the crescent rolls and cut each triangle lengthwise in half.
8. Note: you can also use squares and fold the points to the center with other dough you use to make bundles.
9. Place one tablespoon of the mixture on the larger piece of dough and roll it into a ball.
10. Place the crescent balls onto a cookie sheet.
11. Spray the top lightly with cooking oil spray or brush with olive oil.
12. Sprinkle with more dried herbs on top and grated cheese.
13. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
14. Serve with warm marinara sauce or pizza sauce and sprinkle with grated cheese if desired.

Notes

Other Additions and Suggestions

1. cooked prosciutto or bacon chopped
2. substitute any brand of refrigerator biscuits for pizza dough or phyllo dough
3. hot capicola, salami, or another deli meat
4. any vegetables diced tomatoes, chopped mushrooms, eggplant, zucchini (needs to be blotted dry)
5. chives or scallions
6. breakfast cooked sausage drained
7. cayenne pepper
8. jalapeno peppers, banana peppers chopped
9. bell peppers or hot peppers
10. fresh spinach chopped, chopped broccoli rabe, escarole, or another cooked green you like
11. chopped artichoke hearts blotted dry
12. chopped asparagus
13. any kind of shredded cheese you prefer over cheddar
14. any kind of diced cooked seafood
15. use fresh herbs instead of dried

Nutrition Facts

Sodium (milligrams)

281.85 mg

Cholesterol (grams)

53.07 mg

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