Saturday, February 23, 2008

Whole wheat flour Calzones

Calzones
Pizza dough, filling
Vegetable filling
My foray into the calzone territory was a happy accident. I have always wanted to make my own pizzas. Primary reason being I can customize the pizza to suit my needs - namely less cheese, more vegetables, home-made sauce. So I was more than happy when I found the whole wheat flour pizza dough at Trader Joe's. My job was half done and still there was scope for my creativity! I made one small pizza and there was still dough remaining to make some other item. I tried out the calzones and could recommend this for any picnics - healthy alternative to the tasty samosas.

Recipe

Ingredients
1. Wheat flour pizza dough (Trader Joe's has this)
2. Tomato ketchup
3. Spinach
4. Beans
5. Carrots
6. Onions
Adding other vegetables like cauliflower, corn, tofu chunks are optional

Preparation
1. Add a little oil in a container and when slightly hot, add cumin seeds and let it crackle.
2. Add the finely cut onions.
3. Steam cook the beans, carrots, and cut spinach for about 5 minutes in microwave
and then add these to the onions.
4. Sprinkle chilli powder, salt and remove from fire.
5. Take a small lemon sized dough. Just brush it with little oil to stretch them into thin 6" diameter discs.
6. Spread a table spoon(tbsp) of tomato ketchup on this disc.
7. Add the filling and close it.
9. Preheat the oven to about 400 F. Put the calzones to bake for about 15-20 minutes.Turn the other side halfway through.
10. Serve with tomato ketchup.

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