Italian Baked Hamburgers With Cheese

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Italian Baked Hamburgers With Cheese

Recipe By : Anne Louise Gockel alg@cs.cornell.edu
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Beef Cheese/eggs
Main dish

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 Loaves pizza dough or thawed
frozen bread dough
225 G ground beef (ground round or other low fat
3 Cups dried tomatoes
1 Cup shredded mozerrella cheese
2 Cups spinach (wash it and cook it; chop coarsel
2 Cloves garlic
15 Ml or less olive oil
parmesan cheese
salt and pepper

1. Refresh the tomatoes in hot water and chop them.

2. Crush and saute garlic in olive oil. Add the ground beef. Cook.

3. Drain off excess oil. Add salt and pepper to taste.

4. Take each loaf of pizza dough or bread dough and cut it into 4 pieces.
Pat, roll or stretch each piece into a 15-20 cm circle.

5. Filling the calazones: Be sure to keep all filling at least 1/2 cm
from the edge or else you will have trouble sealing them. Place 1-2 Tbls
of meat on half of the dough. Add some tomato bits and spinach. Top with 1
Tbls cheese and a bit of parmesan.

6. Dip your fingers into warm water. Wet the edge of the dough. Stretch
half of the dough over the filling and press the edges to seal. Either use
your fingers or a fork to seal them. Or you can roll the bottom edge up
over the top edge, twisting them together like a rope around the edge.
This method is slightly more time consuming, but the calazones generally
don't leak.

7. Place calazones on a baking sheet that has been greased or covered
with cornmeal. Let them rise in a warm place for 30-60 minutes. Brush
lightly with oil. Bake 20-30 minutes at 180 øC .

Difficulty : moderate.
Precision : measure ingredients.







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