Craving for pizza flavoured baked goodies?You can very well try them and bake them in healthy way rather than indulging in store bought ones.
The calzone meaning pizza pockets can be made healthy using half and half whole wheat and all purpose flour.
Ingredients
For the outer cover
All purpose flour 1 1/2 cup
Active dry yeast 1.5 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil 2 tsp
Water to adjust.
For filling
Panner cubes diced into smaller piece
Capsicum- coloura of your choice- diced small
Onions finely chopped
Garlic few finely chopped
Sweet corn 1/4 cup
Pizza sauce as per taste
Lemon juice 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oregano,black pepper & chilli flakes.
Mozzarella cheese as needed
Preparation:
Take the flour in a wide bowl and add in the salt and sieve it once.
In another bowl,take yeast and add sugar and 1/4 cup water to it and allow the yeast to prove.Check for bubble formation within few seconds in the yeast solution.If not discard the solution and start afresh with a new pack of yeast.
Now mix this yeast solution into the flour and start kneading with oil.The dough should be sticky initially.Do not add more water.Start kneading for 7 to 8 mins.Once gluten formation is done,the stickiness will be gone and the dough will be more manageable.Apply oil all over dough and keep it aside in a warm place to rise.
Check after 1 to 1.5 hra.The dough would have risen well.Now knead it again for few mins after knocking down the air bubbles in the dough.Take equal sized balls out of it.
For the filling.
In a kadai,add oil and saute garlic cloves ans onions.Add salt and add in the capsicums, sweet corn.Let them cook for few seconds.Add in the panner pieces and check for seasonings.Finally add the pizza sauce as per taste .Squeeze in lemon juice
and switch off to cool.
How to make calzones:
Now roll the ball sized dough into a disc shape.Place in the filling and spread Cheese over it.Close the disc into a semi circle and fork the edges. Drizzle milk all over the surface to get the nice golden brown colouring.
Your calzones or pizza pockets are ready to bake.
Preheat oven to 180 degree for 10 mins and keep the prepared calzones covered in a muslin cloth and allow it to rise for few more mins till the oven is preheated.
To note: If your calzones do not rise properly,then allow them to rest for few more hrs before starting the filling.
Bake them for 20 to 25 mins till the top surface is lightly browned.
Serve them hot and relish with a cup of coffee :)
The calzone meaning pizza pockets can be made healthy using half and half whole wheat and all purpose flour.
Ingredients
For the outer cover
All purpose flour 1 1/2 cup
Active dry yeast 1.5 tsp
Sugar 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil 2 tsp
Water to adjust.
For filling
Panner cubes diced into smaller piece
Capsicum- coloura of your choice- diced small
Onions finely chopped
Garlic few finely chopped
Sweet corn 1/4 cup
Pizza sauce as per taste
Lemon juice 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Oregano,black pepper & chilli flakes.
Mozzarella cheese as needed
Preparation:
Take the flour in a wide bowl and add in the salt and sieve it once.
In another bowl,take yeast and add sugar and 1/4 cup water to it and allow the yeast to prove.Check for bubble formation within few seconds in the yeast solution.If not discard the solution and start afresh with a new pack of yeast.
Now mix this yeast solution into the flour and start kneading with oil.The dough should be sticky initially.Do not add more water.Start kneading for 7 to 8 mins.Once gluten formation is done,the stickiness will be gone and the dough will be more manageable.Apply oil all over dough and keep it aside in a warm place to rise.
Check after 1 to 1.5 hra.The dough would have risen well.Now knead it again for few mins after knocking down the air bubbles in the dough.Take equal sized balls out of it.
For the filling.
In a kadai,add oil and saute garlic cloves ans onions.Add salt and add in the capsicums, sweet corn.Let them cook for few seconds.Add in the panner pieces and check for seasonings.Finally add the pizza sauce as per taste .Squeeze in lemon juice
and switch off to cool.
How to make calzones:
Now roll the ball sized dough into a disc shape.Place in the filling and spread Cheese over it.Close the disc into a semi circle and fork the edges. Drizzle milk all over the surface to get the nice golden brown colouring.
Your calzones or pizza pockets are ready to bake.
Preheat oven to 180 degree for 10 mins and keep the prepared calzones covered in a muslin cloth and allow it to rise for few more mins till the oven is preheated.
To note: If your calzones do not rise properly,then allow them to rest for few more hrs before starting the filling.
Bake them for 20 to 25 mins till the top surface is lightly browned.
Serve them hot and relish with a cup of coffee :)
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