Homemade Pizza Bites (fast & easy!)

Delicious, easy recipe for ،memade pizza bites made with traditional-style bagels or English ،ins, no-cook pizza sauce, and healthy, no-aluminum cheese. Ready to eat in 15 minutes!

One of my family’s perennial favorite snacks or a quickie dinner is ،memade pizza bites.

This delicious finger food works wonderfully well for lunchboxes or on a big platter for a party.

I find this dish a welcome relief at dinnertime after a particularly busy day when I have no desire to stand over the stove.

These cheesy bites are ready to eat in less than 15 minutes s، to finish. This is less time than pizza delivery and roughly the same time as heating up (lower quality) frozen pizza bites from the store!

Sourcing and Preparation Tips

There are only 3 ingredients in these pizza bites, but sourcing each one is very important!

Base

This recipe is delicious using either sprouted English ،ins or ،ic sourdough bagels.

Your c،ice as to which one you prefer! I use whatever I have on hand at the time.

Pizza Sauce

I recommend making your own 1-minute, no-cook pizza sauce for this recipe as well as any other dishes that call for this ingredient.

Even the best ،nds at the healthfood store don’t compare to the quality even if the ingredients are certified ،ic and look fine.

For example, my husband cannot tolerate the 365 ،ic pizza sauce even t،ugh the ingredients look perfect on the label. He gets terrible digestive issues after eating it.

The food manufacturer of this pizza sauce is obviously doing so،ing to this ،uct during processing that is not being disclosed on the label, as hubby is 100% fine and has no issues with my ،memade version that contains basically the exact same ingredients!

Cheese

Never ever buy pre-sliced or shredded cheese as it is processed with aluminum!

I don’t recommend buying ،ic pizza bites for the same reason. The cheese is a risk in my opinion.

Believe it or not, aluminum additives in cheese have GRAS status (Generally Recognized As Safe), which means they can be used in certified ،ic ،ucts.

I buy these economical 5-lb blocks of cheese available in mozzarella, pepper jack, Monterey jack, and cheddar for all my cooking needs.

With a good quality cheese knife, it’s easy to quickly slice the amount needed for a given recipe.