Homemade Bread Pocket With Pizza Filling (Oamc)
photo by Karen Elizabeth
- Ready In:
- 1hr 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 16
- Yields:
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20 pizza pockets
- Serves:
- 10
ingredients
- 400 ml 1% low-fat milk
- 19.71 ml yeast
- 9.85 ml sugar
- 9.85 ml salt
- 22.18 ml oil
- 200 g whole wheat flour
- 400 g all-purpose flour
- 500 g extra lean ground beef
- 1 onion, finely diced
- 1 green bell pepper, finely diced
- 4.92 ml salt
- 2.46 ml pepper
- 9.85 ml oregano
- 473.18 ml crushed tomatoes (or use pizza sauce)
- 473.18 ml part-skim mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 1 egg, whisked
directions
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Bread dough:
- Heat the milk until luke warm, stir in yeast until absorbed.
- Add sugar, salt and oil.
- Add whole wheat and all purpose flour (reserve 3/4 cup of all purpose flour).
- Knead until smooth and not sticky.
- Let rise for 30 min in a bowl under a dishtowel.
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Filling:
- Brown the meat and pour off juices.
- Add bell pepper and onion.
- Season with salt, pepper, oregano and any spice of your liking, put aside.
- After the dough has risen punch it back down and knead for a couple of minutes.
- Divide the dough in 20 small balls. I usually divide the dough in half, then in quarters and then each quarter into 5 balls, to get even sizes.
- Each ball is rolled out thinly with a rolling pin to approx a dessert plate size. Use the reserved flour to help non sticking.
- Brush the rim with egg.
- Smear the middle with 1 tbsp of tomato, add 1-2 tbsp meat filling to the middle and top with cheese.
- Fold over and pinch the rim with a fork - you should now have a half moon shaped bread with filling. The filling should not be visible or falling out.
- Let rise for 10 minutes.
- Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes until golden.
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Reviews
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What can I say about this recipe? It was fabulous!!! It was easy to throw together in the Kitchenaid stand mixer while I was prepping everything else. I made 8 large pockets (baked for about 30 minutes) and used the recipe as listed except that I replaced half of the beef (extra lean) with sliced ham, cut into strips and half the sauce. I used 2 packets of quick rise yeast, which equalled 4.5 tsp and it was just right. My youngest son didn't love the filling - it was simply too healthy for him! LOL! We were discussing the possibilities of fillings and my husband and I thought that a beef, onion, mushroom and cheese filling would be good. My boys would love ham, pineapple and cheese. We will be making these again for sure!!! Made for PRMR tag. Thanks Deantini! :)
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Yes, I liked the bread texture, i followed the recipe carefully and it worked perfectly. I wasn't sure how big a dessert plate might be, so I sort of guessed at how big I would like the finished product to be!! DH would have liked a bit more filling, maybe leaving out the cheese and adding more meat filling. I did bulk it out with vegetables, a little, adding a grated zucchini, and a finely diced sweet potato, I was thinking vaguely along the lines of a Cornish Pasty. I also added the tomatoes directly to the meat sauce and let it all cook down together. I needed more than one egg, in the end I used two, plus some milk, because I painted the pies before baking them. I considered these very successful, and have sent half of them off with my college-bound daughters, DH keeping the other half for his lunches! He had one today, with a salad and some gravy. Thank you, Deantini, very nice recipe!!! Made for PRMR tag game.
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Liked the texture of the bread. Instead of making them small, I divided it into 8 portions to make larger ones. The baking time needed to be increased, so they baked 30 min. For my vegetarian son I made a vegetable only filling and used garlic sausage/peppers/onion mixture for the others. Made for Everyday Holiday Tag. :)
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Deantini
Canada