How to Cook Chicken Calzone
Makes: 2
Ingredients needed to make chicken calzone:
For the dough:
- 1 2/3 cup all purpose flour
- 1 package active dry yeast
- 2/3 cup warm water
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sugar
- Vegetable oil, as required
For the filling:
- 1 cup cooked or leftover chicken, shredded
- ½ cup parmesan cheese
- ½ cup Mozzarella cheese
- 1 cup spinach, rinsed and dried
- 6 button mushrooms, sliced
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Cooking instructions for chicken calzone:
- Warm up your oven to 475 degrees F.
- To make the dough, dissolve sugar in warm water and stir in the yeast; set the mixture aside until the yeast becomes active.
- Combine the flour and salt together and sift them into a large mixing bowl.
- Drizzle vegetable oil over the mixture and blend them thoroughly with a fork.
- Once the yeast-sugar mixture becomes bubbly, pour it into the above mixture and stir them all together to form a moist dough.
- Dust your kitchen’s working counter with flour and knead the dough on it for couple of mintues or until it becomes elastic.
- Transfer it into a bowl and cover with a cling film; set aside for about 15 minutes to let it rise.
- Meanwhile, heat a skillet over high heat and toss the mushrooms into it.
- Stir-fry them for about 3-4 minutes or until they brown and most of the liquid, oozing out of the mushrooms, disappears.
- Now, transfer the dough to the floured surface and knead it again for half a minute.
- Split it into two equal portions and roll each of them into a rectangular log, about ¼’’ thick.
- Spoon half of the browned mushrooms along one of the longer side of the log and top it up with shredded chicken.
- Lay the spinach in a single layer and finish it off with both types of grated cheese, one after another.
- Wrap the other half over the filling and press the open ends together to seal; make the other calzone in a similar fashion.
- Put the calzones in the oven and bake for about 10-12 minutes or until the surface turns golden brown.
- Allow to cool for 3-4 minutes and cut it into 3-4 slices.
- Serve and dig in!
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