best calzone recipe

This easy homemade Calzones recipe includes pizza dough stuffed with your favorite pizza toppings, making a fun customizable dinner that everyone loves. Calzones can be made in advance or frozen for an easy freezer meal.

Calzones

lbs pizza dough (homemade

mozzarella cheese

egg (, whole, beaten)

Tablespoons parmesan cheese

Italian seasoning

pizza sauce (, for dipping)

pepperoni

Italian sausage (, cooked)

Canadian bacon

chicken

black olives

mushrooms

bell pepper (, chopped)

onion

jalapeño pepper

pineapple

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F, with a pizza stone inside if possible (or use a baking sheet turned upside down).

Divide pizza dough into 8 portions. Roll each into a flat disk, about 1/4 inch thick. Add about ¼ cup of toppings to one side, including a generous sprinkle of cheese. Fold the other half of dough over the toppings and seal the edges together.

Place calzones on a large piece of parchment paper. Use a sharp knife to make a small slit on top of each calzone (for steam to escape while baking). Lightly brush tops of calzones with beaten egg, then sprinkle with a little parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning.

Transfer calzones (on the parchment paper) to the hot pizza stone or baking sheet in the oven. Bake for 12-14 minutes or until golden brown. Allow to cool for at least 10 minutes before serving.

Serve with warmed pizza sauce or Marinara sauce for dipping. Or try other dipping sauces like white garlic sauce, ranch, Alfredo, or bbq sauce.

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Italian Calzone Recipe

Olive oil

yellow onion (thinly sliced)

kosher salt

butternut squash (cubed)

broccolini (trimmed)

cremini mushrooms (sliced)

garlic

(12-ounce) batch of store-bought or homemade prepared pizza dough

jarred marinara sauce

mozzarella

In a medium skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add thinly sliced onions and pinch of salt. Cook onions for 30 minutes, or until onions are browned and caramelized.

While the onions are cooking, pre-heat oven to 400F. Place cubed butternut squash on a baking sheet and toss with a teaspoon of olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Roast for 15 minutes, or until soft. Remove and set aside.

When onions are caramelized, add broccolini and cremini mushrooms and sauteé for 5-10 minutes. Add garlic to the top and cook just until fragrant.

To Make the Filling:

Lightly flour your work surface and roll out pizza dough to a 1/8-inch thick circle. Transfer pizza dough to a piece of parchment. Add the tomato sauce to one half. Top with broccolini/mixture. Add the butternut squash and then finish it off with a few slices of mozzarella.

Fold dough in half, over filling, and crimp as desired to seal. Transfer parchment with calzone to a baking sheet. Using a knife, slice a hole in the top. This will allow steam to escape as it bakes. Place it in the oven and cook until dough is puffed up and golden brown, 15-20 minutes.

To Bake the Calzone:

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Oh my gosh - this looks delicious! A recipe that I must try soon!

WOOOOW. I have been looking around at calzone recipes for a few weeks now and this one wins the cake, by far. Excited to try this soon!

Stumbled on this site and wanted to tell you how amazing your recipes are.  The pictures and everything are so detailed! Great Work

I saw this post a few days ago and thought it was a great idea so the boyfriend and I walked up to the market and got all kinds of yummy vegetables and such to make calzones with. We cheated and used pre-made dough, but it was still delicious! We used tomatoes, mushrooms, zucchini, pineapple, onions, garlic, mozzarella, and ricotta. And then he put sausage in his and I put pepperoni in mine. We also put some chopped up garlic in olive oil and spread it on the crust before baking. Its been two days and he still can't stop talking about how delicious it was. We even saved the leftover filling (we made way too much!) and turned it into pasta sauce. Yum! :) Thanks for the inspiration.

This was so delicious!!! And quite easy. I substituted roasted sweet potato for the squash and added some balsamic vinegar to the pan with the onions when they were done caramelizing. Will definitely make again! I also left the sauce out of the calzone and dipped the finished calzone in sauce instead.

I made a calzone based on your recipe.  It's simple and pretty bomb.

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