Pizza croissants

Name: Pizza croissants
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 80 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: Flour 00 3 cups; Remilled durum wheat semolina 1 cup; Water at room temperature 1 cup; Extra virgin olive oil 1 tbsp; Fine salt 2 tsp; Fresh brewer's yeast 1 tsp; Mozzarella cheese for pizza 5 oz; Tomato puree 5 tbsp; Extra virgin olive oil to taste; Fine salt to taste; Extra virgin olive oil 1 tbsp; Peanut seed oil to taste

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Vegetarian

Difficulty: Average
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 20 min
Makes: 16 pieces
Cost: Very low
Note + leavening time (around 4.5 h)

PRESENTATION

After making sweet croissants for breakfast and savory croissants as an appetizer with drinks, pizza croissants were bound to be next on our list! Yes that's right: instead of puff pastry we've used pizza dough to create a sort of typical crescent-shaped panzerotti. However, instead of baking in the oven, we present you with this irresistible fried version that will make everyone's mouth water! A tomato and mozzarella filling has been chosen for this recipe, just like the most classic of pizza toppings, but feel free to enrich it however you like, by creating even more tantalizing and inviting flavors. Pizza croissants are ideal enjoyed with your friends, served with fresh beer, but they are just one of many reinterpretations of this well-loved recipe: try pizza rings or muffins!

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INGREDIENTS

For the dough (for 16 croissants): Flour 00 3 cups (350 g); Remilled durum wheat semolina 1 cup (150 g); Water 1 cup (270 g) - at room temperature; Extra virgin olive oil 1 tbsp (15 g); Fine salt 2 tsp (10 g); Fresh brewer's yeast 1 tsp (5 g)

For the filling: Mozzarella cheese 5 oz (160 g) - for pizza; Tomato puree 5 tbsp (80 g); Extra virgin olive oil to taste; Fine salt to taste

To grease the tray: Extra virgin olive oil 1 tbsp (15 g)

For frying: Peanut seed oil to taste

Preparation

How to prepare Pizza croissants

To make pizza croissants, start by preparing the dough: place the dough in a large bowl 1, add the crumbled yeast 2 and all the water 3. Mix by hand and then stir the yeast in thoroughly with a ladle.

Add the salt 4 and oil 5, then start kneading 6.

Place the dough on a work top and continue to knead for around 10 minutes 7, until smooth and homogeneous. Place the dough in a lightly oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap and leave to leaven for around 3 hours and 30 minutes, until it doubles in volume 8. In the meantime you can cut the mozzarella into strips 9.

Once the leavening time is up 10, place the dough on a work top lightly sprinkled with dough and press down gently with your hands 11, before rolling it out using a rolling pin, into a 0.4 inch thick rectangle 12.

Fold one of the short sides to the middle 13, then repeat on the other side: make sure the edges match 14, then fold the rectangle in half 15: in this way you will form a 4-way-fold.

Spread the dough out once more to form a rectangle, this time 0.8 inches thick 16. Divide the rectangle in half lengthwise 17 and use each half to form 8 triangles, so that there are 16 in total 18.

Spread and gently pull out each triangle 19, then spread the tomato puree previously flavored with salt and oil over the surface 20. Add a few strips of mozzarella 21.

Roll the triangles up from the base 22 to the tip 23, then place them on a tray lined with parchment paper, with the closed side down 24. Cover with plastic wrap or with another tray and leave to leaven for another hour.

Once this time is up, heat the seed oil to 320?. In the meantime cut the parchment paper around each croissant 25, so that it will be easier to slide them into the hot oil 26. Fry 1-2 croissants a time, for around 3 minutes, then place them on the absorbent paper 27. Your pizza croissants are ready to be enjoyed!

Storage

As with all fried foods, pizza croissants are best enjoyed freshly made.

Alternatively they can be frozen once fried.

Tips

You can flavor the filling with oregano, or enrich it with some cooked ham.

For a lighter but less fragrant version, bake the pizza croissants in a static oven at 428°F (220°C) for 25 minutes, with the tray on the lowest shelf.