Eggplant & Fennel Calzones

Ingredients:
prepared pizza dough
2 Italian eggplants, sliced into 1/4 inch rounds
1 bulb fennel, thinly sliced
1/2 loving cup ricotta
1/2 loving cup shredded mozzarella
three tablespoons Parmesan
1 tablespoon minced basil
1 tablespoon minced oregano
salt
freshly terra firma dark pepper


warm tomato plant dipping sauce

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350. Line a baking canvas alongside parchment paper. Place the eggplant slices inward unmarried layer. Bake for 10-15 minutes or until they are soft together with cooked through exactly non browned. Allow to cool slightly. Turn the oven upwards to 400. In a medium bowl, mix together the ricotta, basil, oregano, salt, pepper, Parmesan, together with mozzarella. Divide the dough into viii equal chunks for private (about mitt sized) calzones or iv equal chunks for larger calzones. Roll each i into a 5-6 inch round. Add a unmarried layer of fennel together with and then 2 (or 4) tablespoons of the cheese mixture together with tiptop alongside slices of eggplant inward i one-half of each round, leaving a 1/4 inch border. Fold the dough over to shape a one-half Luna shape together with pinch shut. Repeat until all are filled together with pinched shut. Bake on a pizza rock or on baking sheets for almost xx minutes or until golden together with hot all the manner through. Serve immediately.

Refrigerate leftover calzones inward an air tight container or resealable pocketbook overnight. To reheat: let them to sit down on the counter piece the oven preheats to 350. Bake until cooked through.

My thoughts:

I establish some lovely Italian eggplants together with a pristine bulb of fennel at, of all places, H Mart, together with straightaway began trying mean value of interesting together with novel ways to role the 2 together. I can't nation that calzones leapt straightaway to hear exactly I had ricotta together with mozzarella together with of course, flour together with yeast thus I idea I'd laissez passer on it a shot. I am glad I did, it was thus good! Slightly to a greater extent than upscale together with subtle together with the commons calzone.

I discovered the baking the eggplant fob when I was developing recipes for my upcoming cookbook together with it actually does trial inward a velvety texture inward the concluding dish. The fennel stays somewhat crisp exactly non thus crisp that when you lot seize alongside teeth into it the fennel falls out of the calzone together with burns your chin.