Eggless Spicy Buns made with Pizza Dough
I don’t know whether I can call this dish a bun, but it was inspired by Shilpa’s Spicy Stuffed Potato Buns. Maybe we can also name it as Stuffed Pizza, Indian Style. It’s very simple to make and is delicious. I wanted to try Shilpa’s recipe, but I doubted whether I could handle the yeast action and stickiness. I know I have to take a daring step to bake breads and buns. But I’m gonna postpone it for later. Suddenly an idea flashed, why not try baking it using refrigerated pizza dough. Last week I got two of those, one of which I used for the Twirly Whirly Pizza. I had another recipe in mind for the 2nd packet, but I wanted to try this one.
Stage 1:
Pre-heat the oven at 400F (200C).
Stage 2:
Prepare any type of stuffing you want. I cooked Shilpa’s onion masala.

Stage 3:
Flour the work area and unroll the dough. Also flour a rolling pin and roll the dough once to reduce the thickness of the dough. Be very careful to maintain the rectangular shape, otherwise you will be having a hard time like me. (See My Notes section)
Stage 4:
Take a medium size round shape cookie cutter and cut circles from the dough.

Stage 5:
Place a spoonful of the masala on one circle and close it with another. Do likewise for the remaining also.
Stage 6:
Place all the stuffed buns on a greased pan, brush the buns with oil and bake it for 20 min or until the tops are golden brown. Enjoy it with a cup of hot tea!

My Notes:
1. When I unrolled the pizza dough there was a hole in the middle of the rectangle, so I just cut out 2 circles and then made the mistake of kneading the dough into one big ball, thinking that it will be easy to handle. I thought that I can just pinch small balls of dough, roll them and cut out perfect circles. What was I thinking? I pinched a golf ball size of dough and started rolling it, but I was not able to roll them into proper shape at all. I lost my patience and just wanted to get my hands off the dough. Now you can understand why 5 out of the 6 buns are in some odd shapes like amoeba. So try to maintain the rectangular shape of the dough and quickly cut as many circles as possible.
2. As I say always, try with 1 bun first. By this you can get an idea of the baking time, thickness of the dough etc.
3. I set the oven at 400F, because Shilpa’s recipe calls for that temperature for the spicy potato buns. I think 425 F should also work fine.
4. The buns were not soft and fluffy as you would imagine a bun to be (I guess it’s either the pizza dough or I should have made the circles thinner), but it was very very tasty. Give it a try. Don’t get mislead by the shapes.
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March 28th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Hey that fluffy bun with filling looks very nice.
March 29th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
eggless bun with masala looks spicy. Italian says Calzone (shape is different)may be Indian version calzone Madhu!
March 29th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
The buns look lovely Madhu. Its my first time here and u indeed have a pretty looking blog dear!
Siri
March 29th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Sushma, It looks fluffy, but it was not very soft like other buns, but the taste was very good indeed. Try them.
Cham, Thanks for the info. about calzones. After reading your comment, I checked out what calzones were. Actually I have seen them in pizzeria menus, but did not care to know what they were.
Siri, Thank you very much. Please visit again.
March 30th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Very Innovative, you should move closer so I can just drop by and be your taster:)
March 30th, 2008 at 10:24 am
SS, I really wish we were neighbors. Running out of tasters. My mil is also leaving soon, my husband is a picky eater.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
A bakery called Hot Breads in dallas used to make these and they were yummy! nice one for an eggless recipe
March 31st, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Mansi, I also heard about that from my friend. I think Shilpa’s recipe would be as fluffy as the ones you tasted in Hot Breads. This one was not soft, but very tasty. Instead of having a deep fried samosa with tea, this clearly is a healthier choice. And if you let your imagination to work, you can come up with umpteen number of stuffings both sweet and spicy.
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 am