How To Make Stuffed Caprese Bites
Serves:
Ingredients
For Caprese Bites:
- 1pizza dough
- 24cherry tomatoes
- 4ozmozzarella,shredded or cut into small squares
- ½cupfresh basil leaves,loosely packed, torn into bite-sized pieces
- 2tbspbutter,melted
- 1tbsporegano
- marinara sauce,for dipping, optional
For Pizza Dough:
- ⅔cupwarm water
- 4.5tspyeast
- 1¾cupsall-purpose flour
- 1tspItalian seasonings,or dried oregano
- 1tspsea salt
- 2tbspolive oil
Instructions
Caprese Bites:
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Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Grease a pie plate with cooking spray.
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If using canned pizza dough, use a pizza slicer to cut dough into 24 equal squares.
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If using homemade pizza dough, break off dough into about 24 walnut-sized pieces and then stretch each to become a 3-inch or so circle.
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Make each of the bites by slicing tomato in two lengthwise, and then sandwiching a piece of cheese and a torn piece of basil between the tomato halves.
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Then gently place the little tomato sandwich in the center of the pizza dough, and wrap the dough around it to make a ball. Pinch the ends together so that they are secure, then place each ball seam-side-down in the greased pie pan.
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Repeat with the remaining ingredients until the pan is full.
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Brush the tops of the little dough balls with melted butter, then sprinkle with the dried oregano.
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Bake for about 20 minutes, or until the tops are slightly golden. Remove and serve immediately.
Pizza Dough:
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In a mixing bowl, stir together the warm water and yeast.
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Stir in the flour, salt and Italian seasonings and mix on medium high speed on your KitchenAid stand mixer for 5 minutes. While the mixer is going, drizzle in the olive oil.
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When the dough is soft and elastic, take out of the bowl, rub with olive oil and then place back in the bowl, cover with a dish towel and let rise for one hour.
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After the dough has doubled in size, remove the dough and either use it in a recipe or freeze it.
Nutrition
- Calories: 97.23kcal
- Fat: 3.66g
- Saturated Fat: 1.49g
- Trans Fat: 0.04g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 1.50g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.38g
- Carbohydrates: 12.83g
- Fiber: 0.96g
- Sugar: 0.55g
- Protein: 3.30g
- Cholesterol: 6.28mg
- Sodium: 113.13mg
- Calcium: 38.54mg
- Potassium: 70.20mg
- Iron: 0.90mg
- Vitamin A: 24.36µg
- Vitamin C: 2.17mg
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