Chicken And Basil Calzones Cooking Light Recipes

WING CHICKEN CALZONE

Steps:

• Place cheeses in bowl, add parsley, basil, Romano and mix well. In separate bowl, place garlic and onion and crack 3 eggs on top. Mix well and add to cheese mixture until well incorporated. Set aside.
• For the Pizza Dough: Place flour, sugar, shortening and salt in bowl of mixer. Place water in separate bowl, add yeast and sugar, let stand for 5 to 8 minutes until yeast rises to top of water. With kneading hook on the mixer, start mixer and add water. Mix for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from bowl and place on floured sheet pan. Knead slightly adding flour if needed to form a large dough ball. Refrigerate for 45 minutes before using various recipes. Special note: Flour must be high gluten. Yeast must be granulated.
• Assembly: Cut chicken into strips. Coat with flour, then egg, and then Romano cheese. Make sure that cheese is well coated on the chicken. Place on oiled sheet pan in a preheated 500 degree oven for 5 minutes. While chicken is cooking, mix red hot sauce, butter, garlic and jalapeno and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Place pizza dough on peel and spread into a circle. Place calzone cheese on 1 half of the circle. Remove chicken from the oven and place in mixing bowl. Cover with sauce and coat well. Place chicken on top of calzone cheese, cover with a little sauce and blue cheese, fold, brush with butter and bake in a preheated 400 degree oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from the oven, slice and serve with extra wing sauce on the side.

CHICKEN AND BASIL CALZONES-COOKING LIGHT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Spray with cooking spray. Add garlic and chicken to pan and saute for 5 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.
• Stir in pizza sauce, italian seasoning, and red pepper. Reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and stir in basil. Let sit for 10 minute.
• Unroll pizza dough onto a baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Cut into quarters and pat each into an 8x6" rectangle. Divide chicken mixture evenly onto the rectangles and sprinkle with 2 tbsp of cheese on each.
• Fold each rectangle in half over the chicken and pinch the edges to seal.
• Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown.

BARBECUE CHICKEN BASIL CALZONES (OAMC)

Steps:

• For the dough: Combine flour, baking powder, sugar and basil.
• Add milk powder to water and stir until dissolved, add to dry mixture.
• Add eggs and melted butter and mix well.
• Set aside while making the filling.
• For the filling: Cook onions in butter over medium heat until onions are tender.
• Add chicken and mushroom pieces and cook 2 minutes.
• Remove from heat and stir in barbecue sauce and cheese.
• Divide dough into 4 pieces and roll out into 8 inch circles.
• Place 3/4 cup - 1 cup of filling in each circle.
• Fold dough in half and seal edges tightly.
• Bake at 350°F for 15-20 minutes or until top begins to brown slightly.
• For OAMC: Cool and freeze at this point.
• Defrost in the oven or microwave before serving.
• Serve warm with extra barbecue sauce to dip if desired.

BBQ CHICKEN CALZONES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Fry bacon in a large skillet over medium-high heat until crisp. Remove from the pan to drain on paper towels; crumble. Add the onion and shredded chicken to the hot bacon grease in the pan. Fry over medium heat until onion is tender. Stir in 1/3 cup of barbeque sauce, and remove from the heat. Mix in the cooked bacon.
• Roll the pizza crust dough out onto a greased cookie sheet. Press out to an even thickness, and then cut in half. Divide the chicken mixture between the two pieces of dough, spreading on only half of each piece to within 1/2 inch of the edge. Drizzle the remaining sauce over the filling. Sprinkle the cheese and cilantro over the top. Fold the uncovered portion of dough over the filling, and press the edges together with a fork to seal.
• Bake for 25 minutes in the preheated oven, or until browned to your liking. Cool for a few minutes, then cut each calzone in half. Each serving is half of a calzone. These can be served with additional barbeque sauce if you like.

CHICKEN CORDON BLEU CALZONES

Steps:

• Place chicken in a greased 2-qt. baking dish; cover with water. Cover and bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°. , Meanwhile, in a small skillet, saute mushrooms and onion in butter until tender. Combine cornstarch and milk until smooth; stir into skillet. Add seasonings. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened., Drain chicken. Cut pastry sheets in half widthwise. On one side of each half, place a chicken breast, 1/4 cup mushroom mixture, two ham slices and one cheese slice. Fold pastry over filling and seal edges., Place on a greased baking sheet. Brush tops with milk if desired. Bake at 400° for 15-20 minutes or until puffed and golden.