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To: Cboldt

Thanks for the additional tips. I’ve not tried making calzones, but yours sound delicious - I may have to give it a whirl :-)


1,342 posted on 02/24/2016 7:07:58 AM PST by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: Seattle Conservative
Calzones are easy. I buy ready made pizza dough, but make your own if you want. Roll out a small pizza size round, maybe 10-12", not too thin. I use half of one of those premade dough packages for one calzone.

Calzone is basically a folded over pizza, so your working zone is going to be INSIDE one half of that dough round, leave some edges "clean" so when you fold the round in half, the dough can seal along the edge.

Little bit of pizza sauce, pepperoni, half-nuke broccoli florets, half a cup, a handful of grated mozzarella, smaller amounts of asiago, parm and romano, fold over and seal the edges. The thing is a good 2-3 inches thick!

I put that on parchment paper, into a 375F oven. Sometimes put frozen french fries on the cookie tin too. olive oil on top of the calzone. After 10-15 minutes, I slit the calzone to let steam out. Three slits, but use your artistic imagination if you want. Total time in the oven in about half an hour, I look for a bit of golden on the dough. These things are HOT HOT HOT, might take a good 10 minutes to cool down. I let 'em cool for a few anyway, before cutting the semicircle into two quarter circles. At that point, it is hand food, no utensils needed.

Adjust pepperoni/broccoli as you see fit, meaning could be ANY ingredients if you don't like those. Think "pizza," could be chicken and pesto and cheeses instead of tomato, pepperoni and broccoli and cheeses. Add onion, add olives, add jalapeno. Or not. Prep and cleanup time is maybe 20 minutes. Pretty cheap. The dough is half a buck (a dollar for a whole package of premade dough), ingredients maybe 3 bucks.

1,353 posted on 02/24/2016 7:48:19 AM PST by Cboldt
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