Oh hello there, you hunk of awesome-ness:
Cheesy, spicy, chicken-y…nom nom nom.
The other day I mentioned on facebook that I was making a buffalo chicken calzone for dinn-dinn. I got the idea from these buffalo chicken bites I pinned many moons ago. (here’s the original pin, for any of you interested in the historical part of this post.)
Of course, buffalo chicken bites sound fantastic. But when I saw that you had to get all fancy and individually wrap the chicken & cheese mixture with dough. Meh – too fancy for me. I figured – “hey, why not make it into a big wopper-calzone-thing so I only have to wrap ONE piece of dough instead of a bajillion?”
Consider me s.o.l.d.
So, I set to work making the dough (using my fave pizza dough recipe), then I combined a little of this recipe & a little of this recipe to come up with the recipe below.
So, how did we like it? Jonathan & I love spicy food, so this was right down our alley. Fantastical. The 2 times I’ve served this for dinner, I make sure there is other food in the house (read: leftovers) to give to Anna Grace. She likes to eat the bread part, but the chicken mixture is too spicy for her.
A word to those of you who don’t like blue cheese: {psssssst…I don’t either!} However, I decided to try it with blue cheese (& the second time with blue & cheddar) since that’s what the original recipe called for. So glad I did. The blue cheese adds a little bite that goes perfectly with this combo of flavors. We ate this with homemade ranch dressing and it was PaDow. Highly recommend for your next family night!
Ingredients
- 1 Tblsp active dry yeast
- 1 Tblsp sugar
- 1 cup warm water (105-115 degrees)
- 2 Tbsp olive oil
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 cups finely diced cooked chicken breast
- 1/2 cup crumbled blue cheese
- 1/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/3 cup hot sauce
Instructions
- Combine yeast, sugar, oil & water.
- In separate bowl, mix flour & salt.
- Mix dry & wet ingredients together for 3 minutes.
- Cover dough and let rest for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, mix chicken, cheeses, and hot sauce.
- On floured surface, shape dough into a large rectangle.
- Spoon chicken mixture in the center of the dough and fold the edges towards the center.
- Bake at 450 degrees for 15 – 20 minutes or until golden brown.
- Serve with ranch sauce on the side.