#Fried pizza turnover recipe full#

Have you ever tried panzerotti?ĭID YOU MAKE THIS RECIPE? Share your creations by tagging on Instagram with the hashtag #notquitenigella Panzerotti So tell me Dear Reader, what is your Defcon level 1 food like the food that you eat when you are in crisis mode? Mine is a bag of XXTRA Flamin' Hot Cheetos that burns my tongue and makes me feel alive again. 'It was bad but I knew it was going to be bad,' she answered before adding, 'It was just what I needed.' Sometimes we defend it when people mess with our food and sometimes we have Defcon level 1 food that goes against everything we stand for. But it's probably like when people mess with Fairy Bread or other Australian foods that we get our back up. She's not a food snob, she is one of the most down to earth people I know. I mean she hates it when people mess with cacio e pepe. I knew it was Defcon level 1 if she was ordering ham and pineapple pizza. She is proudly Italian and as if to show me how spent she was emotionally she said, 'Do you know what sort of pizza I ordered? I got it from Dominoes for starters and I ordered a ham and pineapple pizza for chrissakes.' She has a physically intense job and by the end of the day she is often physically and mentally exhausted. I was talking pizza and panzerotti with a friend of mine Giulia and she was telling me that she had just had a tough day at work. If you wanted to use a wholemeal flour substitute one quarter of the total flour with wholemeal flour.Ĭareful of the first bite! If you're eating it just after it has been fried it will be hot and the hot air inside will escape. Will panzerotti work if you don't have 00 flour? Yes it will also work with all purpose flour. Brush with a beaten egg and bake for 20 minutes. Calzones tend to be larger in size while panzerotti are smaller and around the size of a sandwich.Ĭan I bake Panzerotti instead of deep frying it? Yes! You can also bake these panzerotti in a 180C/350F oven. What's the difference between a panzerotti and a calzone? Panzerotti are fried and a calzone is usually baked in the oven. You can also get sweet fillings like Nutella in a panzerotti. These pizza pockets swell up more when deep fried as a pocket of air develops.įillings for the Panzerotti: Dried tomatoes and mozzarella are the classic and most common filling and Mortadella and provolone is also a common filling.

Panzerotti vary in size and these ones are around 14cms/5.5inches in diameter so it's a good sized walking snack. The delicious street food is designed to be eaten on the go.

#Fried pizza turnover recipe full#

It refers to the puffy swelling of the filling in the pastry that resembles a full tummy.

The word Panzerotti is based on the word 'panza', a variation of Italian the word 'pancia' that means belly or tummy. This crescent shape stuffed pocket is also called Pizze Fritte (fried pizza) and these pockets hold a delicious filling of melty cheese and tomatoes or mortadella and gooey cheese! These are SO delicious (I mean what's not to love about a deep fried pizza pocket) and this is a pushy recipe Dear Reader! Panzerotti are wonderful Pugliese fried savoury turnovers.