Friday, February 18, 2011

E: Buffalo Chicken & Artichoke Calzones

Happy Friday! Keep those Stonyfield giveaway entries coming!!

Side note: I had a wonderful day yesterday! I got to hear the baby’s heartbeat again at the doctors! I recorded a little segment (so I could send it to Josh) and have been playing it over and over ;). 

A while back, I cooked up buffalo chicken calzones. I decided it was about time I make them again, but I switched up the ingredient list a bit:

Ingredients:

  • 1 cup part- skim ricotta (or whole milk or fat free, whatever you’d like)
  • 1/4 cup granted romano parmesan
  • 1/2 cup pizza or tomato sauce
  • 3 tablespoons buffalo sauce (or a few shakes of hot sauce)
  • desired quantity cooked chicken (chopped) or deli sliced chicken breast (chopped) (I used Boar’s Head Buffalo chicken breast) (note: you could make a vegetarian version with black beans)
  • 1/2 a 15-ounce can quartered artichoke hearts (or leave out if you’re not an artichoke fan)
  • Pizza dough (homemade or store bought, I used Publix-store bought):

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  • olive oil

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

In a large bowl, mix together first six ingredients.

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Roll out pizza dough and cut in half. Top each half of the dough with half of the filling, wrap up calzone and pinch shut.

Top a baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper (to catch any topping that explodes out). Place calzones on top of parchment paper and brush each with just a bit of olive oil. Bake for 20-24 minutes. The outcome:

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The outcome when you don’t pinch shut properly ;) (see “calzone” on top):

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Enjoy!

Any weekend plans?? I’m hoping to fit in brunch & a trip to see my parents (my Mama’s birthday is Monday!!).