The Calzone is one of the most and tasty dish of the Italian pizzeria, very appreciated to make with simple and healthy ingredients. To prepare it we use the same ingredients for the pizza.
We have the calzone stuffed with ham and grated mozzarella cheese, but if you want to vary the recipe, you can use any other cold cut you like, or seasonal vegetables.
A portion of 300 grams total, is the ideal quantity to be taken not more than once per week, recommended by nutrition experts.
An ideal dish, to serve with good dark beer.
Like for the other recipes of pizza, we add the milk in the ingredients. This is because the domestic oven we have in our houses, are not so powerful like the professional one in pizzeria. The cooking is longer, and with the milk (not used in a professional pizzeria), we can keep the pizza or the focaccia soft, avoiding the risk to have a food dry and overcoocked. If you have at home a professional oven for pizza, do not use milk as ingredient.
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BAKED CALZONE
Instructions
For the realization of the Calzone, put the flour in a bowl (1), add water at room temperature (2) and continue adding fresh whole milk (3). Sprinkle with granulated sugar.
Now melt the yeast for pizza in a cup plenty of warm water, thoroughly stirring with a spoon until it is completely dissolved (4), then join it in the planetary with the other ingredients (5) and finally, add three tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil (6).
Now you have to knead with your hands all the ingredients in the bowl, bringing them vigorously, from the bottom to the top (7) up to you have realized a dough free of lumps. You have to obtain the classic ball shape (8). Once finished, leave the dough in the bowl for the leavening, until the volume will not be doubled, and we recommend you to cover it with a cotton cloth (9).
Once the dough is well risen, oil the bottom with extra virgin olive oil of a round tin of medium size (10) and then place the dough on the center to make the calzone (11). Now with the palms of your hands, started to widen it at the measure you like (12), depending on the size of the plate you want to bring to the table.
Now, add the ham on a side of the dough that you have laid (13) and cover with the grated mozzarella (14). Now add salt at your liking (15).
Now with your hands, lift the part of the dough not topped and put on top over the filling (16), to create the classic half-moon shape. Then, with the tips of the fingers, make a slight pressure on the perimeter of the Calzone (17), so as to close it to prevent leakage of the filling in the cooking. Bake in preheated oven at 150° C for about thirty minutes (18). Once well cooked, serve still warm accompanying it with some good dark beer.
Recipe Notes
The recipe for homemade calzone, has as its basis the pizza dough, very simple to make and you can stuff it in many different ways and original.
