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How to Make Calzone
One of the most famous and delicious Italian recipes! Calzone, or Italian chicken pies, is perfect for anyone who loves classic Italian pizza. Here is an easy, tried-and-tested homemade version.
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Ingredients for the dough:
1 kilogram flour
1 1/2 tablespoons yeast
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon salt
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3 tablespoons powdered milk or 1/4 cup liquid milk, as available
Warm water for the dough
How to prepare the dough:
Put all the dry ingredients on top of the flour
and mix well, then add the oil and bring the dough together well
then add the water gradually and knead well until you have a smooth dough
Leave the dough to rise for about an hour, and after rising begin working
Divide the dough into balls as desired, then let them rest for 5 minutes and then start working
Ingredients for the filling:
1 kilogram chicken breast, cut into thin slices
1 green sweet pepper, chopped
Fresh or canned mushrooms, chopped
Chopped olives
2 yellow onions, cut into slices
Mozzarella cheese
How to prepare the filling:
Place the chicken breast over low heat and stir well until the chicken turns white
Add the onion, sweet pepper, and salt, and stir well until the vegetables wilt...
Add the mushrooms and olives, then add assorted seasonings to taste, such as pepper, mixed spice, and shawarma spice, and stir well
Let the filling cool, then start working... Fill the dough pieces and add the cheese, then close them in the shape shown in the accompanying pictures.
Then brush the top of the calzone with beaten egg yolk mixed with a small spoon of vinegar
Bake the calzone in a preheated oven at 180 degrees until cooked through and golden brown
Recipe and method for making calzone from a friend and cook at the Shou Tabbakheen Al Youm site:
Kholoud Abd Al-Nasser
Click on Kholoud's name to visit her profile page on our site
Ingredients
- 1 kilogram flour
- 1 1/2 tablespoons yeast
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons powdered milk or 1/4 cup liquid milk, as available
- Warm water for the dough
- How to prepare the dough:
- 1 kilogram chicken breast, cut into thin slices
- 1 green sweet pepper, chopped
- Fresh or canned mushrooms, chopped
- Chopped olives
- 2 yellow onions, cut into slices
- Mozzarella cheese
- How to prepare the filling:
- Recipe and method for making calzone from a friend and cook at the Shou Tabbakheen Al Youm site:
- Kholoud Abd Al-Nasser
- Click on Kholoud's name to visit her profile page on our site
Method
- Put all the dry ingredients on top of the flour
- and mix well, then add the oil and bring the dough together well
- then add the water gradually and knead well until you have a smooth dough
- Leave the dough to rise for about an hour, and after rising begin working
- Divide the dough into balls as desired, then let them rest for 5 minutes and then start workingTimers: 5 min
- Place the chicken breast over low heat and stir well until the chicken turns white
- Add the onion, sweet pepper, and salt, and stir well until the vegetables wilt...
- Add the mushrooms and olives, then add assorted seasonings to taste, such as pepper, mixed spice, and shawarma spice, and stir well
- Let the filling cool, then start working... Fill the dough pieces and add the cheese, then close them in the shape shown in the accompanying pictures.
- Then brush the top of the calzone with beaten egg yolk mixed with a small spoon of vinegar
- Bake the calzone in a preheated oven at 180 degrees until cooked through and golden brown






