Crescione | Italian Stuffed Flatbread
 
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Crescione is an Italian stuffed flatbread which is a most popular street food. It can be filled with herbs, tomato, mozzarella and many more ingredients.
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Recipe type: Stuffed Flatbread
Cuisine: Italian Cuisine
Serves: 5
Ingredients
For Dough
  • All Purpose Flour - 2½ cup
  • Olive Oil - ¼ cup
  • Baking soda - 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
For Filling
  • Tomato -2 Nos Medium size
  • Mozarella - 1 cup ( shredded)
  • Oregano - ¼ tsp
  • Chilli flakes as needed
  • Olive oil - 2tsp
  • Spinach - 1 cup
  • Onion - 3 tbsp (chopped)
  • Pepper as needed
  • Salt to taste
Instructions
To Make The Filling
Tomato Mozzarella Filling
  1. Grind the tomatoes in a mixture still smooth paste.
  2. In a pan heat oil add the ground tomato puree, oregano, pepper pd, Chilli flakes, salt and let them cook.
  3. Cook till the raw smell goes off and the puree gets condensed a bit.
  4. Remove from heat and let it cool completely
Spinach Onion Filling
  1. In a pan heat oil and the chopped onions and saute them till translucent.
  2. Add the washed spinach and look them till they shrink and al dente
  3. Add salt and pepper pd to season.
To Proceed
  1. In a glass of water melt the salt as needed to make the dough.
  2. In a bowl take the flour, add oil, baking soda and the salt water to the dough.
  3. Mix the well and knead them to till all the flour combines and forms a smooth dough.
  4. Cover and let the dough rest for 30 mins.
  5. Divide the dough into equal parts and start rolling the dough with a rolling pin.
  6. Roll the dough thin and dust very little flour.In the half part of the rolled dough spread the tomato filling and top it with mozzarella.
  7. Brush some water in the corners of the circle and fold the other half side on top of the filling.
  8. Press the corners of the crescent-shaped bread with the prongs of the fork. Make sure the filling doesn't leak out.
  9. Heat a Testo/ Tawa and place the prepared crescione carefully to cook.
  10. Let it cook on one side and then flip it and cook on the other side.
  11. Cook in medium heat so that the cheese inside gets nicely melted. If cooked in high heat the outer part might cook quickly leaving the inner part uncooked.
  12. Do the same with rest of the dough and fill the spinach filling the same way.
  13. They taste perfect as is but if you want you can enjoy them with ketchup.
Recipe by Desi Fiesta at https://www.desifiesta.com/2018/03/crescione-italian-stuffed-flatbread.html