HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN CALZONE

If you ask me what would be my favorite and easy to go meal, it  always be  calzone.  For those of you unfamiliar with calzone, they  are  actually stuffed pizza.

While you can certainly make your own dough, most people I know want something a little easier. The easiest solution was to use frozen pizza dough or  refrigerated biscuit dough that comes in a tube.

Using   my best pizza dough   recipe and stuffed with chicken, bell pepper, onion, tomato and spices, these turned out soft and chewy at the same time. These freeze well  so it is a great idea to make a large batch for another night.

Although this recipe calls for chicken,  you can  stuff with a variety of fillings.  For vegetarian, you can substitute chicken with more veggies with cheese.

HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN CALZONE
Serves  :    4-5

DOUGH
3 cups all purpose flour
1.5 teaspoon instant yeast
5  tablespoon  melted butter
2 tablespoon  milk powder
2 tablespoon sugar
1 cup warm water
1 tsp salt
2 tablespoon warm water if needed

FILLING
250 g minced chicken/beef/lamb
2 big onion sliced
2 cloves garlic chopped
1/2 in ginger minced
2 tomato chopped
1 tablespoon chili powder
2 tablespoon chicken curry powder
1 large bell pepper thinly sliced
1 cup green peas
2 med potato cubed (optional)
2 tablespoon chopped cilantro
salt and sugar to taste
3 tablespoon oil
1/2  cup water
1 stick cinnamon
3 cardamom
3 cloves

METHOD FOR FILLING

Heat oil, add cinnamon, cloves, cardamoms and onion. Fry onion until it turns brown.

Add in ginger, garlic, curry powder and chili powder, fry until fragrant. Sprinkle water if it is too dry.

Now add the minced meat and tomato, fry for 1 minute.

Add bell pepper and 1/2 cup water, if using potato add  1 cup of water, bring to boil. Cover and cook until potato or bell pepper is soft, stirring in between.

Add  peas and continue to cook for 3-5 minutes.

Remove from heat, sprinkle with cilantro. Cool.

DIRECTION FOR DOUGH

Place flour, instant yeast, milk powder, sugar  and salt in a mixing bowl.

Now add  butter, warm water  to the dry ingredient, forms into soft dough.

Knead by hand for 5 minutes on floured board until smooth.

Transfer into oiled and covered bowl, let rise until double for 1-2 hours.

Degas the dough, divide into 7 equal balls

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Roll out each ball into 7 in round about 1/4 in thick.  Drop 2 tablespoon of filling  on one side of each circle of dough.  Fold the dough over the filling,   forming a half circle.  Complete the rest of the dough.

Transfer onto prepared baking sheet. Crimp the edges and make 3 slits on the surface. Let sit for 30 minutes.

Bake for 20-25 minutes in a preheated oven @ 190 C until  golden brown.

Cool slightly and serve immediately.

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