Chicken Calzone...!!!
Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: Chicken Dishes, Evening Snacks, Italian Dishes, Non-Veg Recipes
A Calzone is an Italian turnover made from pizza dough and stuffed with cheese ,salami, meat or vegetables and a variety of other stuffings.When baked the dough swells up to somewhat resemble a “stuffed stocking or trouser leg” which is what a calzone means in Italian.It is often served with marinara sauce or some other dip.I decided to use chicken stuffing along with mozerella cheese.This was my first try to make calzones and they turned out very good and tasty.In above pic you can see one opened calzone with the stuffing .They are easy to make and carry anywhere easily for picnics or as mid time snaks.So now i am planing to try some more calzones with different experimented stuffings:-))
INGREDIENTS:
For Outer Covering:
2 cups all purpose flour
2 tea spoon active dry yeast
2 tea spoons mixed dry herbs
2 table spoon olive oil
1 tea spoon sugar
salt
For Stuffing:
1 n 1/2 cup boneless chicken
2 big onions chopped
2 cups mozerella grated mozerella cheese
1 cup tomato puree
1 tea spoon pepper powder
1 tea spoon oregeno
3-4 table spoon green paste(ginger-garlic-green chillis and corainder paste)
1 tea spoon chilli powder
1 tea spoon turmeric powder
salt
olive oil
METHOD:
For the dough mix sugar and yeast in 1/4 cup warm water and keep aside closed for 10 mins.Mix flour,salt and dry herbs.When yeast become active add it to the flour mixture and kned into a soft dough.Add olive oil and kned more for 2 mins.Keep aside closed for 1 hour in a warm place.After 1 hour it must have got doubled.Press the dough ball little to remove the air and again keep it closed for 1 more hour.
To make the stuffing.Apply salt and turmeric and green paste to chicken pieces.Keep aside for 1 hour.Now take the pieces and cook till 3/4 done.Now make small pieces of the cooked chicken and keep aside.
Heat a pan and add oil.Saute the onions till golden brown.Now add the shredded cooked chicken and saute for 1 min.Now add the chilli powder and pepper powder.Mix and saute for 2 mins.Now add salt and tomato puree and let the puree coat the mixture.Close the lid and let it get cooked for 3-4 mins.Now finaly add the oregeno and toss.Remove from flame and let it cool.
Now divide the dough into small balls.Roll each ball into 4-5 inch diameter circle.Add one table spoon of chicken filling and one table of grated cheese over it.Apply little water on the edges of the rolled circle.Close it into semicircle and seal the edges using fork.
Reapeat this procedure with all the remaining balls and filling.I have put a pic below to show the prepared raw calzones.
Keep them closed for 10 mins to rise a little.Preheat the oven/microwave at 180 degrees for 10 mins.
Grease oven safe dish and bake them at 180 degrees for 25-30 mins or till they turn brown.I baked for bit longer as i wanted them crisp.
Serve hot with marinara sauce.
Preparation Time:35 mins
Dear Siddhi
Great learning for me! Specially the stuffing...you have such great collection of assorted recipes!!
I have a problem on tracking your blog. For example, when you post some recipe as "coming soon" say on 5th Nov, it will appear on 5th Nov...but when you edit and post the final one on 10th Nov with same name, it will appear as if it was posted on 5th Nov..and will appear after all the new postings by others. So can you do some thing ...
have fun
great recipe....i know my husband would love it as he loves when i make potato stuffed calzones ( no other veggies he likes )..:)
never made with cicken or keema n he always says why don't you make it with chicken....he he..