Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Calzone

Ingredients:
White Flour (500g)
Yeast
Tomato Juice
Ketchup
Ham (150g)
Cheese (if you cant find mozzarella, use some easy melting cheese ) (300 g)
Mushrooms (I prefer champiƱones) (150g)
Oregano
Cream Fresh
The Calzone Dough:
It is the same dough as pizza dough!
Start with pouring small bowl with 300ml of hot water (not warm). Put half of yeast (25g/2) in. Add pinch of sugar and pinch of flour. Let it sit for about 10 minutes to react and grow. Sugar and hot water will help yeast grow faster;)
Sift flour in the bawl or on the clean table, whatever you are comfortable with. Make a hole in the middle and add prepared yeast in the center. Season with salt but around on the flour, not on the yeast. If you put salt directly on yeast, it can stop your dough grow later on. Mix it with a spoon until you mix everything up and then start working with your hands. Knead the dough well to create gluten until you make it homogeneously and not much sticky. While kneading add some flour if needed to get perfect texture of your dough. Once you are done, make ball of it and spread pinch of flour on the top, cover it and live it for about 30 minutes on warmish place to grow. Meanwhile you can prepare and cut everything for the topping, shred cheese, cut mushrooms etc. After 30 minutes re-knead your dough and split it for two calzonas. Take baking pan and cover it tick with an olive oil. Spread your dough in the pan and form it very, very tick and round (aprox 20cm radius each). Turn your oven on to pre-heat on 220 degrees celsius.
The Topping
Mix tomato juice with a spoon of ketchup in a cup. Add some salt, pepper and oregano and mix it. Spread it on the dough. Then put on some ham and mushrooms on one half of it. Next one is cheese, and cream fresh. Spread with some oregano on top of it and and fold empty half on top of the topping. Bring the edges together with your fingers to avoid your topping drain out. Bake it in the pre-heated oven for 12-15 minutes on 220 degrees celsius. 
Serving
Place it on the plate, spread some cream fresh on top, some shredded cheese and ketchup while still hot. Enjoy!

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