Chicken Sausage & Pepper Stromboli
with Pillsbury™ Classic Pizza Crust, Mozzarella & Marinara Sauce
- Milk
- Wheat
If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that pizza is precious. So precious, in fact, that sometimes you need to wrap it up tight to keep all those tasty toppings safe. Enter stromboli: the ultimate pizza roll. Pork sausage and bell pepper are mixed with a spicy Tuscan blend of seasonings and cream cheese for a rich filling, then layered over mozzarella and rolled up tight in pizza dough. Once it’s baked, sliced, and dunked in marinara, you can breathe a deep sigh of relief—your dinner is safe and sound!
Ingredients
9 ounce
Italian Chicken Sausage Mix
2 tablespoon
Cream Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
½ cup
Mozzarella Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
1 clove
Garlic
7 ounce
Pizza Dough
(Contains: Wheat)
½ tablespoon
Tuscan Heat Spice
1 unit
Bell Pepper
5 ounce
Marinara Sauce
Not included in your delivery
1 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
2 teaspoon (tsp)
Cooking Oil
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to middle position (middle and bottom racks for 4 servings) and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Halve, core, and thinly slice bell pepper into strips. Peel and mince or grate garlic.
• Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add bell pepper; cook, stirring occasionally, until tender, 4-6 minutes. • Add sausage to pan with bell pepper; cook, breaking up meat into pieces, until browned and cooked through, 4-6 minutes. Carefully drain any excess grease from pan.
Pat chicken dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Cook through this step as instructed, swapping in chicken (no need to break up into pieces!) or chicken sausage for pork sausage.
• Stir cream cheese, 1 tsp Tuscan Heat Spice (2 tsp for 4 servings; you’ll use more in the next step), and ¼ cup water (½ cup for 4) into pan with sausage mixture. Cook, stirring, until most of the water has evaporated, 1-3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. • Remove from heat.
• Place garlic, 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings), and ½ tsp Tuscan Heat Spice (1 tsp for 4) in a medium, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave until butter has melted, 30 seconds; stir to combine. • Unroll Pillsbury™ Classic Pizza Crust; separate sheets at dotted line. (TIP: Use a knife to separate cleanly.) Place on a lightly oiled baking sheet (2 baking sheets for 4); gently stretch each dough sheet into a 6-by-8-inch rectangle.
• Evenly sprinkle pizza dough with mozzarella, leaving a ½-inch space around edges. Top cheese with sausage and pepper mixture. • Gently roll up each dough rectangle, starting with one of the short sides, to form a log. Arrange stromboli logs, seam sides down, on baking sheet; pinch ends closed and tuck under each log.
• With a small sharp knife, gently cut three small, shallow diagonal slits along the top of each stromboli log. • Brush stromboli with garlic herb butter and season with salt and pepper. • Bake on middle rack until golden brown and crisp, 14-16 minutes (for 4 servings, bake on middle and bottom racks, swapping rack positions halfway through).
• Wash out bowl used for butter. When stromboli have 2 minutes left, place marinara sauce in bowl. Cover tightly with plastic wrap and microwave until warmed through, 30-45 seconds. • Transfer stromboli to a cutting board; slice crosswise into quarters. • Divide between plates. Serve with warm marinara on the side for dipping.
Chicken Sausage is fully cooked when internal temperature reaches 165°.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Feb 2026- Flavor: Many loved the delicious taste, with some suggesting extra cheese or adding pepperoni for even more flavor 🍕.
- Ease of prep: Customers found this fun and surprisingly easy to make, though a few had trouble rolling the dough.
- Suggestions: Consider adding onions, mushrooms, or more veggies; some recommend brushing with egg wash to prevent burning.
- Leftovers: Several mentioned it reheats well and makes great leftovers for lunch the next day.
- Portions: Some felt it wasn't quite enough for a full meal; adding a side salad would make it more satisfying.
Reviews from our home cooks
Awesome as well! Seems like such a daunting complicated thing to make, but with the premade dough was fun to play around with and turned out great! Super kid and crowd friendly as well (leftovers don't last very well just like pizza, but great to share with a group as the 4p recipe). Cream cheese stuffing was delicious as well! I added an onion to the mix too, was bomb w the sausage and peppers (just a thought - maybe do half the peppers and replace with onions, might be cheaper and classic pizza combo)
One of my favorite dishes so far. When we pulled the Stromboli out of the oven, I thought to myself, "we really made this???" It looked like restaurant quality, but was so easy to make and the flavors were so delicious. Super impressed with how this simple bake turned out!
My son, who NEVER likes the stromboli at the pizza place, loved the Hello Fresh version. I actually like this version better too! Ingredients were fresh, seasonings were tasty, and I would have never thought to add cream cheese. Yummy! I'd definitely rotate this meal into our menu regularly. Again...really happy with the new menu items. You guys have been doing a great job, and my ingredients are consistently fresh.
I've never made Stromboli before and was a little nervous but this was so easy and it turned out de-licious!! I will definitely be holding onto the recipe card and making this dish again in the future.
This was fun to make and I went with the chicken sausage. The pizza crust turned out flaky and crispy. The marinara dipping sauce made this awesome.
I skipped salt and pepper the first time they mention it because the chicken sausage is so flavorful, and I probably could have skipped the salt throughout but it was delicious! Crust was crispy and the sausage and peppers were a great filling.
This is a fun different fairly easy recipe with good flavors. I would like to try spicier sausage with a marina sauce inside similar to the Flatbreads and more mozzarella and green pepper. Didn't really care for the herb butter on top as the Tuscany spice was too chunky and bitter this time. Just a garlic butter baste would taste better.
This was a fun meal to make. One thing I really liked about making this meal was I could have just about everything cleaned up by the time the Stromboli came out of the oven.
Easy enough to make, even for a first timer rolling stromboli! Good flavor, goes together quick, and satisfying to eat.
Really good and simple! Sausage is excellent, would love to see it in more dishes. Marinara sauce was great also. I'm adding a few of these items to my grocery list for sure.
