Sunday, July 5, 2009

July Recipe Exchange: Pizzas with Pizzaz

BBQ Chicken Pizza

Ingredients:
1 pkg pizza crust mix (or you can make your own or buy a pre-made crust)
½ cup BBQ sauce
1 can (13 oz) cooked chicken
1 tbspn Italian seasoning
1 small red onion, sliced in rings
1 ½ cups Colby Jack cheese

Directions:
Prepare crust and spread on BBQ sauce. In a bowl, combine chicken, seasoning and ½ cup of the cheese. Spread onto pizza crust. Lay onion rings around pizza evenly. Sprinkle remaining cheese over the top. Bake at 450 degrees for 12-15 minutes.

Jenny Orchard

Taffy Apple Pizza

Ingredients:
1 package (18 ounces) refrigerated sugar cookie dough
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 medium Granny Smith apples
1/4 cup caramel ice cream topping
1/2 cup peanuts, chopped

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Shape cookie dough into a ball and place in center of a round pizza stone; flatten slightly. Using lightly floured roller, roll out dough to a 14-inch circle, about 1/4 inch thick. Bake 16-18 minutes or until light golden brown. Remove from oven; cool 10 minutes. Carefully loosen cookie from baking stone; cool completely on baking stone.
2. Combine cream cheese, brown sugar, peanut butter and vanilla in a small bowl; mix well. Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over cookie.
3. Peel, core and slice apples. Cut apple slices in half and arrange evenly over cream cheese mixture.
4. Microwave ice cream topping on HIGH 30-45 seconds or until warm; drizzle evenly over apples. Chop peanuts; sprinkle over apples. Cut into 16 wedges.

This was one of my favorite Pampered Chef recipes.

Jenny Orchard

Hot Pocket Dough- makes six 6 inch pockets

1 C. Luke Warm Water
2 T. Olive Oil or Canola Oil

1 t. Sugar

1/2 t. Salt

3 C. Flour (I usually do Half all-purpose and half whole wheat or all whole wheat flour)

1 1/2 t. Yeast


Dough by Hand:

Dissolve Yeast in warm water. Add Oil, Sugar, and salt. Slowly mix in flour and knead. Cover and let rise for 45 minutes.

Dough in Bread Machine: (this is my favorite because you can throw all the ingredients in and set the dough cycle and get some other things done while it’s doing the work for you!)

Add ingredients in order your bread machine specifys (for example: for mine I need to add the liquid first, then dry ingredients, and then form a well and pour my yeast in). You don’t want your dough to raise for more than one hour. Most bread machine dough cycles will “beat” down the dough and you’ll want to take the dough out before it does that. Consult your users manual for timing and instructions on how to put the ingredients in.

1. Pre-heat oven to 375

2. When dough is ready, separate it in to 6 portions. If you want to be really exact, you can weigh the dough. I usually just eye ball it.

3. Using a rolling pin, roll out dough to 1/8 inch thick circles.

4. Let dough rest for 5 minutes.

5. Put 1/4-1/2 cup worth of filling. If you’re making all the same kind of hot pockets mix all your filling items together and use a scoop to fill the pockets.

6. Fold dough in half over the filling and clamp edges with fork.

7. You can brush the tops with an egg white wash (1 egg white beaten with 1-2 T. water) if you want them to look really professional! (I usually don’t because I think they look delicious with out the hassle. Besides I can’t ever figure out anything to use that one egg yolk in and I hate to waste it!)

8. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 375.

Pam Mueller

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