Ring around the deer:
- 1 pound ground venison or beef, cooked and drained
- 1 pack pepperoni slices, halved
- 1 package of Canadian bacon, quartered
- 1 ½ cups Shredded Mozzarella or Pizza blend cheese (6 oz)
- 1 ½ cups pizza sauce
- 2 cans of Pillsbury Crescent Roll cans (8 rolls per can)
- 1 Tbl butter, melted
- 1 Tbl grated parmesan cheese
- Italian seasoning and/or basil to taste
- 14” Dutch oven (if using a 12” Dutch oven cut the recipe in half and adjust coals)
Method:
- Prepare one charcoal chimney of coals
- In a bowl mix meat and pizza sauce until combined
- Add parchment paper to the oven
- Open crescent roll, unroll and separate each triangle. On the parchment-lined oven, arrange the triangles so the thicker ends are overlapping each other and the thin points are extending away from the center of the circle as you form a ring (use both cans)
- Spoon a generous portion of cooked meat mixture toward the center of the ring, on the larger ends (not towards the points) of the dough
- Next layer the pepperoni and Canadian bacon onto of the meat mixture
- Then Layer the cheese
- Then sprinkle seasoning on top of the cheese
- Next pick up each triangle point and place it up and over the filling mixture. (make it look pretty!)
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Prepare your hot coals: 375 degrees 14” oven using 30 coals: *20 charcoal on top and 10 charcoal on the bottom for 30-35 minutes or until crescents have turned brown. For baking bread, rolls, cakes, etc... - use "2/3 timing" method -- work with the heat on top and bottom for 2/3 of cooking time, the remainder of the time with heat only on top to finish baking.
Hint: use smell to help alert you to it being done - Plate and serve with ranch dressing or pizza sauce
Rings can be any flavor: Taco ring, Breakfast Ring, Philly Steak Ring, cheeseburger Ring, BBQ chicken Ring, cheery/oreo/chocolate, etc. With the pizza ring any pizza toppings can be used – chicken/bbq/pineapple, sausage/olives/pepperoni, etc.
*if the coals are small use 2 coals to equal one – so there may be 20 or 21 coals. Don’t get stuck on precise numbers.