Chicken & Choritzo Calzone

Panda.s
Panda.s @cook_3715208
London/ Essex Border. U.K.

Experimenting with an Italian dish.

Chicken & Choritzo Calzone

Experimenting with an Italian dish.

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Ingredients

120 mins
4 servings
  1. Dough:
  2. 1 1/4 cupwater
  3. 2 tbspolive oil
  4. 3 cupbread flour
  5. 2 tspsalt
  6. 2 tspcaster sugar
  7. 1 1/2 tspfast acting yeast
  8. Filling:
  9. tomato puree
  10. 2 tbspchopped parsley
  11. 3chicken breasts (cooked &cut into 1/2 inch dice)
  12. 8 ozmozzarella cheese, diced
  13. 2 ozgrated parmesan cheese
  14. 4 ozchorizo or other spicy sausage, diced
  15. 2 ozsun dried tomatoes, chopped
  16. 3spring onions (salad) chopped
  17. 2egg yolks
  18. to tastesalt & pepper
  19. olive oil

Cooking Instructions

120 mins
  1. 1

    Place water and olive oil in pan of bread machine, cover with flour, place salt, sugar and yeast in seperate corners, switch machine to dough setting.

  2. 2

    If you don't have a bread machine, make dough by hand or use packet mix.

  3. 3

    In a bowl mix the filling ingredients (except the tomato puree & parsley) together, lighly beating the egg yolks before adding, season to taste

  4. 4

    When dough is ready, remove from pan and knock it back gently on a lightly floured surface

  5. 5

    Divide in half, roll each piece into a circle approximately 12 inches across.

  6. 6

    Preheat oven to 220 C / 425 F, oil a large baking tray

  7. 7

    Spread the tomato puree over both rounds, leave a 1/2 inch border all round, sprinkle parsley over tomato paste.

  8. 8

    Place 1/2 of the filling on half of each round, dampen border with water, carefully fold in half to cover filling.

  9. 9

    Fold the border gently over your fingers to seal, you can crimp with a fork or use your fingers and the back of a knife.

  10. 10

    Place the calzone on baking tray, brush with olive oil, place in preheated oven.

  11. 11

    Cook for 20-25 minutes, until golden brown and risen. Serve with salad and/ or chips (fries)

  12. 12

    You can make 4 or 6 individual calzones (depending on your appetite!)

  13. 13

    You can add mushrooms and /or ham if you like.

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Panda.s
Panda.s @cook_3715208
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London/ Essex Border. U.K.
When I left school I trained as a chef,worked in 5*London hotel for a few years.Drifted into transport planning,retired, do most of the cooking at home.Now have more time to play (experiment) in the kitchen, like to add my own twist to recipes ( my wife calls it 'tampering'!) bake bread and make / decorate novelty cakes for family and close friends.Two daughters and three grandchildren. Celebrated Ruby wedding anniversary with wife Pam 2014.
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Comments (3)

Undercoverjester
Undercoverjester @cook_4593060
Have'nt
tried it yet but looks amazing!!

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