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Who doesn’t love pizza dough stuffed with hearty ingredients? My Healthy Chicken Vegetable Calzone is a cheesy, garlicky delight that your kids are going to swoon over! For these calzones, I cook fresh chicken breast to perfection before mixing it with veggies, ricotta, and mozzarella cheese. I stuff the filling inside some pizza dough before baking until golden brown. This meal is simple, healthy, and so easy. To satisfy the family’s pizza craving, make Healthy Chicken Vegetable Calzones tonight!
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What is a Calzone?
A Calzone is an Italian dish that takes pizza dough, your favorite fillings, and gooey cheese and wraps them all together to form a pizza pocket. Traditional calzones can be baked or deep fried. To keep this dish light and healthy, we will be baking our Healthy Chicken Vegetable Calzones.
My filling consists of lean chicken breast for protein, mushrooms, broccoli, onion, bell pepper, and garlic. I also add two cheeses; ricotta for creaminess and mozzarella for that beautiful cheese pull. All together, this dish is less than 250 calories per calzone! Want more Italian recipes? Try my Delicious Heirloom Pesto & Tomato Tart!
Ingredients in Healthy Chicken Vegetable Calzones
- chicken breast
- extra virgin olive oil
- red bell pepper
- onion
- baby bella mushrooms
- broccoli florets
- minced garlic
- red pepper flakes
- salt
- black pepper, to taste
- canned classic pizza crust
- part-skim ricotta cheese
- reduced-fat shredded mozzarella cheese
- garlic powder
How to Make Healthy Chicken Vegetable Calzones
If starting with raw chicken: Place the chicken in a pot large enough to hold them all, and fill the pot with enough water to cover the chicken by about 1-2 inches. Bring to a boil over high heat.
When the water comes to a boil, cover the pot with a lid and reduce the heat to low. Simmer the chicken for 10-15 minutes, or until the internal temperature of the thickest part of the breast reads 165℉.
Using tongs, remove the chicken and reserve on a plate. When it is cool enough to touch, shred it and set aside.
Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicon baking mat.
Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add the oil, red bell pepper, onion, mushrooms and broccoli, cooking for 6-8 minutes.
Add the garlic, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper, and cook for an additional 1-2 minutes. Then set the skillet aside to cool slightly.
Roll out the pizza dough on a flat work surface, and cut the dough into 6 equal-sized rectangles and gently stretch each rectangle a little bit bigger, to fit all of the filling.
Fill each rectangle with about a ¼ cup of the vegetable filling, 2 tablespoons of chicken, 1 tablespoon of ricotta cheese, and 1 teaspoon of mozzarella cheese.
Fold the calzone over on itself and use the tines of a fork to press the seams together on the 3 open sides.
Carefully transfer the calzones to the prepared baking sheet and spray the tops with nonstick cooking spray.
Sprinkle garlic powder over each calzone and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.
Serve with optional marinara sauce for dipping, as desired.
Healthy Chicken Vegetable Calzones
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup cooked chicken (about 4 ounces of chicken breast raw)
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 red bell pepper, diced
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 4 oz. baby bella mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1 cup broccoli florets, chopped
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- 1/8 tsp red pepper flakes
- 1/8 tsp salt
- black pepper, to taste
- 1 (13.8 oz.) can classic pizza crust
- 6 tbsp part-skim ricotta cheese
- 2 tbsp reduced-fat mozzarella cheese
- 1/8 tsp garlic powder
Instructions
- If starting with raw chicken: Place the chicken in a pot large enough to hold them all, and fill the pot with enough water to cover the chicken by about 1-2 inches. Bring to a boil over high heat.
- When the water comes to a boil, cover the pot with a lid and reduce the heat to low. Simmer the chicken for 10-15 minutes, or until the internal temperature of the thickest part of the breast reads 165℉.
- Using tongs, remove the chicken and reserve on a plate. When it is cool enough to touch, shred it and set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicon baking mat.
- Heat a large skillet over medium heat and add the oil, red bell pepper, onion, mushrooms and broccoli, cooking for 6-8 minutes.
- Add the garlic, red pepper flakes, salt, and pepper, and cook for an additional 1-2 minutes. Then set the skillet aside to cool slightly.
- Roll out the pizza dough on a flat work surface, and cut the dough into 6 equal-sized rectangles and gently stretch each rectangle a little bit bigger, to fit all of the filling.
- Fill each rectangle with about a ¼ cup of the vegetable filling, 2 tablespoons of chicken, 1 tablespoon of ricotta cheese, and 1 teaspoon of mozzarella cheese.
- Fold the calzone over on itself and use the tines of a fork to press the seams together on the 3 open sides.
- Carefully transfer the calzones to the prepared baking sheet and spray the tops with nonstick cooking spray.
- Sprinkle garlic powder over each calzone and bake for 10-12 minutes or until the tops are golden brown.
- Serve with optional marinara sauce for dipping, as desired.
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