Veg Mini Calzones - Easy To Make Italian Filled Oven Bread Recipe By Ruchi Bharani
  • 10 years ago
A calzone forms an important part of the Italian cuisine. This dish, originating in Naples, is an Italian filled oven bread, shaped as a folded pizza. Resembling a half-moon, it is made of bread dough. Chef Ruchi Bharani brings you her version of Calzones filled with mouth-watering vegetables seasoned with pizza sauce.

Ingredients:
For making dough:
200 gms. maida (all purpose flour)
Water as required
1 tbsp. yeast
1 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. butter (room temperature)
Salt to taste
1/4 cup milk

For filling:
1 cup pizza sauce
3/4 cup cheese
1 cup veggies - finely chopped onions, green capsicum, yellow capsicum, zucchini and baby corn (as per choice)

Method:
- Heat water until it's lukewarm.
- In a bowl, put some yeast, sugar and the lukewarm water and put it aside for the yeast to activate.
- In another bowl, put some all purpose flour, salt, butter (room temperature) and some milk and mix all the ingredients together.
- Once the yeast starts floating on the surface, mix it well and add a little amount of water to the flour.
- Knead into a soft dough by mixing all the ingredients together.
- Dust the work surface with some plain flour and knock the dough on it until the dough stops sticking to your hand.
- Place the dough back into the bowl and wrap the bowl with a cling wrap.
- Let the dough ferment for at least 1 hour in a warm place.

To make the filling:
- Heat some olive oil in a pan.
- Add finely chopped onions, green capsicum, yellow capsicum, zucchini and baby corn and saute them well.
- Add pizza sauce and mix it with the veggies well.
- Let the calzone filling cool down completely.
- Once the filling cools down completely, add some mozzarella cheese and mix it well with the filling.

To make calzones:
- Take a small part of the dough and start making mini calzones
- Sprinkle some dry flour on the work surface and roll the calzones.
- Apply a little bit of water around the rolled calzone.
- Put some filling at the centre of the roll and fold it into a semi circle.
- Fold the edges well.
- You may use a fork to make designs at the edges and also insert the fork slightly on the calzone to let out all the steam.
- Brush the tray with a little bit of oil
- Place the calzone on the tray and brush them with oil or egg wash.
- Let the calzones rest for 10 minutes and then in a pre heated oven, bake them for about 10-15 minutes.
- The delicious, mouth-watering calzones are ready to serve.

Director: Vaibhav Dhandha
Camera: Kawaldeep Singh Jangwal, Manjeet Kataria
Editing: Sagar Bamnolikar
Creative Head: Kavya Krishnaswamy
Producer: Rajjat A. Barjatya
Copyrights: Rajshri Entertainment Private Limited
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