RICOTTA AND SPINACH CALZONES

A tacky ricotta and spinach vegetarian calzone to exchange into your pizza routine!

Ricotta and Spinach Calzones. A tacky vegetarian calzone to exchange into your pizza routine!
Friday! We made it! I’ve been a entire slacker on posting recently – I don’t recognize what happened, but all of us of a sudden got wayyy busier than we’ve been since we moved to Austin. I assume it’s nice though. We wanted a little bit of a spoil after shifting to get settled and simply take a breath, but now we’re again into the craziness of life and loving it. Well, most of the time. Just no longer whilst I don’t get to discuss to you guys for per week simply due to the fact I actually have a difficult time discovering a couple of minutes to submit those beauties!

Ricotta and Spinach Calzones. A tacky vegetarian calzone to exchange into your pizza routine!
If you learn my final submit or comply with me on Instagram, you’ll recognize we did a 10 day cleanse that ended a couple of days ago in an attempt to reset our consuming conduct and cleanse our system. We’ve performed this similar cleanse 4-5 occasions now and each time I totally love it! I regain energy, get again into the behavior of consuming plenty of water, lose a few of my loopy cravings for sweets, and as a bonus, shed a couple of pounds! We also made a couple of decisions after ending the cleanse.

#1. We consume as wholesome as we are able to throughout the week and we permit ourselves some splurges at the weekends.

#2. We’re going again no longer to shopping for meat. We’re at a stopping level proper now the place we really sense uneasy about consuming meat that isn’t responsibly raised and we don’t fairly have the grocery price range to purchase farmers market/local meat on a day by day basis, so that capacity we simply do without!

So, the plan is that we’ll consume vegetarian throughout the week after which at the weekend have our splurge meal with some fresh, native meat. It’s a comfortable compromise for our bellies and our wallets.

Ricotta and Spinach Calzones. A tacky vegetarian calzone to exchange into your pizza routine!
Okay, those calzones. I mean, come on, don’t you simply wanna pop the entire factor on your mouth?? I love checking out new cookbooks from our native library and since I want some extra vegetarian recipes, I simply wanted to strive America’s Test Kitchen “The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook”. I used my favourite pizza dough recipe and filled them with all of the yummy meals they suggest and so they grew to become out perfectly! I’m in entire want of the meatless calzone simply due to the fact you don’t get all of the useless grease from the beef soaking into your calzone bread — it’s only a lighter, but nonetheless filling meal!

ricotta and spinach calzones

INGREDIENTS:
10 ounces frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
8 ounces ricotta cheese
4 ounces mozzarella cheese, shredded
1 ounce Parmesan cheese, grated
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 enormous egg, evenly crushed with 2 tablespoons water, plus 1 enormous egg yolk
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 1/2 teaspoons minced recent oregano
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon salt
1 lbpizza dough

INSTRUCTIONS:
Preheat oven to 500 degrees.
Combine spinach, ricotta, mozzarella, oil, egg yolk, garlic powder, oregano, pepper flakes, and salt in a enormous bowl.
Place dough on evenly floured floor and divide into four even pieces.
With a rolling pin or your hands, flatten every piece right into a 7 inch spherical on a work of parchment paper.
Spread 1/4 of spinach filling evenly over half of every dough round, making certain to depart a 1 inch border circular the edge.
Brush the rims with the egg wash after which fold the different half of the dough circle over spinach mixture, leaving the backside 1/2 inch border uncovered.
Press edges of dough collectively and pinch with arms to seal.
With a pointy knife, cut 5 steam vents in best of calzones and brush tops with last egg wash.
Transfer calzones onto parchment lined baking sheet and bake for 8 minutes, brush with any last egg wash and sprinkle with grated parmesan, then bake for one other 7 minutes.
Move to wire rack and allow cool for 5 minutes earlier than serving.

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