
Oh yes. You will love this one. I guarantee it. It has been tried and tested on Very Important Friends and they concur; calzones are go! Calzones are pretty common in SoCal, every pizza restaurant has them on the menu. I haven’t struck them at all since we’ve been back in NZ but to sum them up in a kiwi way; they are basically a pizza pie. Dough on the outside, filling on the inside. This is a slight variation in form as what you end up with is more like a pizza loaf. Either way, VERY yummy.
Calzone Dough Recipe
3 tbsp sugar 1 1/2c lukewarm water
4-4 1/2c flour
1 tsp salt
Dissolve yeast and sugar in water. Add salt and flour and knead for 10-15 minutes. Let rise for approx 1 hr in a warm place {e.g. hot water cupboard} until doubled in size. Punch down and divide in two.
Dust your baking tray liberally with flour, the dough will be sticky-ish and you need to be able to peel it off in the coming steps.
Roll out your dough into a nice rectangle approx the length of your tray and half the width.
Filling
Pizza/pasta sauce
Whatever fillings you like, for the kids I used mozzarella, ham, pineapple and chorizo. For the adults I sautéed spinach with onions and garlic, added feta, olives, chorizo, tomato and mozzarella.
- Spread your sauce across the middle third of the rolled out dough
- Cut sections up the sides of your dough, not quite all the way to the sauce
- Add your fillings
- Peel your sections off the tray/baking paper and criss cross them up the length of the calzone
- Spray lightly with oil or butter
- Pop in oven for approx 20-30 min depending on your oven – keep an eye on things from 20min!
- Enjoy!