Italian Baked Hamburgers with Cheese

Name: Italian Baked Hamburgers with Cheese
Prep time: P1H
Total time: P1H
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: pizza dough; ground beef; tomatoes; mozzarella cheese; spinach; garlic; olive oil; parmesan, parmigiano-reggiano cheese, grated; salt and black pepper

Submitted by Katie Jean

YIELD

1 batch

PREP

1 hrs

COOK

30 min

READY

1 hrs

Ingredients

LOAVES PIZZA DOUGH
or thawed frozen dough *

225

G GROUND BEEF *

CUPS TOMATOES
dried

CUP MOZZARELLA CHEESE
shredded *

CUPS SPINACH
washed, cooked, chopped

CLOVES GARLIC *

ML OLIVE OIL *

X PARMESAN CHEESE *

X SALT AND BLACK PEPPER *

Directions

Refresh the tomatoes in hot water and chop them.
Crush and sauté garlic in olive oil. Add the ground beef. Cook.
Drain off excess oil. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Take each loaf of pizza dough or bread dough and cut it into 4 pieces. Pat, roll or stretch each piece into a 15 to 20 cm circle.
Filling the calazones: Be sure to keep all filling at least ½ cm from the edge or else you will have trouble sealing them. Place 1 to 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.
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.
Place calazones on a baking sheet that has been greased or covered with cornmeal. Let them rise in a warm place for 30 to 60 minutes. Brush lightly with oil. Bake 20 to 30 minutes at 180 ?C .