Anyway, I started with my current favorite bread recipe.
Mix 2 Tablespoons of honey in 2 cups of warm water. Combine well. Then add in 4 teaspoons of yeast. Mix and let proof. While the yeast is proofing add 6 cups of flour, 2 teaspoons of salt, and 4 Tablespoons of olive oil to the bowl of your stand mixer. Add in proofed yeast mixture. Using a dough hook, slowly mix the ingredients. Then let your mixer knead the dough for 10 minutes. As it's kneading slowly add in about a cup of additional flour. Depending upon the humidity you may need more or less.
If you don't have a stand mixer you can mix the ingredients by hand and then knead for about 8 minutes.
After you complete the kneading let the dough rest while you begin preparing the rest of the ingredients needed for the calzones.
Next up I fried up some mild Italian sausage. This batch I purchased from my local Festival Foods grocery store. The sausage is not locally sourced and it's not organic, but it was as close to the sausage I had growing up as I could find and it tasted YUMMY.
After that was done I assembled the rest of my ingredients - prepared bread dough, pizza sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese, and sliced mushrooms. You could any ingredients that you prefer, that's just what I selected at the time.
I pulled off a small piece of the dough and patted it flat in a somewhat circular shape.
Then I took a few tablespoons of the pizza sauce and spread it on the dough circle.
I added a bunch of the cheese.
I added a few of the sliced mushrooms.
And then I put a few spoonfuls of the cooked Italian sausage on the top.
To finish the calzone I folded over the bread dough and sealed the edges. You can tell I'm more accustomed to making Cornish pasties than calzones by my technique.
And here you see one pan of the calzones all assembled and ready to go into the oven.
This recipe made enough dough for 10 calzones.
I baked them in a preheated 350 degree F oven for 20 minutes.
Oh I love calzones! Thanks for the recipe.
ReplyDeleteJennifer