I love stuffed bread. It's one of my things to both make and eat. I take a pizza dough, either homemade or store bought and fill it with whatever I'm craving that day. We're talking shrimp parmesan stuffed bread to fresh mozzarella, sun dried tomatoes and sauteed chicken with pesto sauce. This is something you can have fun with and be creative.
On this particular day I had taken ground turkey out and couldn't decide what to make with it, I had a pizza dough already made and ready to go so I decided it was a stuffed bread kind of day. I paired the ground meat with sauteed mushrooms, pancetta and shredded mozzarella and then decided to top it all off with some homemade bechamel sauce. For those of you not familiar with bechamel (pronounced besh-a-mel) sauce, it is a white sauce that at in it's most basic form is milk, butter, flour and salt. My grandmother, who is from Northern Italy spices her bechamel sauce up with lots of grated parmesan cheese.
This recipe also includes instructions on braiding bread. It's a very simple process that looks harder than it actually is and really goes a long way as far as impressing guests!
