#CALZONE RECIPE FROMSCRATCH HOW TO#

One at a time, press each ball into a disc and roll on a very well-floured surface into an 8 inch circle. Remove each wedge from the bowl and gently reshape them into balls. When the dough has doubled in size, cut the balls apart in the bowl. Or, just leave the slices whole and layer them over the cheese mixture when assembling the calzones. If you like, add a couple teaspoons of crushed red pepper to the cheese mixture to “kick it up a notch.” You can also chop the pepperoni slices and mix them in with the cheese and veggies. Place the sautéed vegetables in a bowl along with all three cheeses and stir until well combined. Add the garlic to the pan and cook for 30 seconds more while stirring then, remove the pan from the heat. Add two teaspoons of extra-virgin olive oil to a small pan and sauté the peppers and onions with a pinch of kosher salt until lightly softened. While the dough is rising, chop the peppers and onions and mince one or two cloves of garlic. But, if you’re busy or in a hurry, by all means, use store-bought pizza dough. I love touching it, stretching it, shaping it, and with some added yeast, I love watching it grow. Flour, water, and salt must be the most versatile combination of ingredients on the planet. So, I make most everything fresh from scratch, especially dough.

When I cook or bake, I usually don’t like to share credit with a machine and an assembly line. Some people use store-bought pizza dough to make them.

#CALZONE RECIPE FROMSCRATCH HOW TO#

In Italian, they say “ kal’tzone” with the “tz” sounding like “ts” and the “e” on the end sounding like the “e” in “egg.” The plural of calzone in Italian is “calzoni” or “kal’tzonee.” So, if you’re an English speaker at home, you can call this a recipe for calzone (kowl-zōn) but, when in Rome, you know… How to Make this Calzone Recipe Make the Dough and Let it Riseīasically a folded pizza, calzones really are very simple to make. You probably already guessed that’s not how it’s pronounced in Italy. English speakers usually pronounce “calzone” like the “kal” in California and “zone” like school zone. Suddenly, eating pants seems reasonable.)Īll that aside, it’s nice to know how to actually pronounce something you’re going to eat. On the other hand, they eat “pants.” So, who knows? (By the way, in the U.S., we eat Hoppin’ Johns and Limpin’ Susans. Who wouldn’t want to eat stivali or calzone? Of course, people who speak Italian would probably die before they ordered stivali from a menu, but you know what I mean. How to Pronounce Calzone in Italian Photo by Bea on įor me, all Italian words sound like food – really, really good food. Apparently, I was born a couple centuries too late and on the wrong continent to name them boots. Boots are made for walking, right? Pants are made to protect your legs and your nethers from the elements and roaming eyeballs.

If I invented calzones, I probably would’ve named them “stivali” for boots.

Some say it’s because you can walk and eat them at the same time. Filled with cheese, vegetables, and often meat, they’re named, for some reason, after pants. This week we’re heading down to Italy to make some calzones.Ĭalzones are Italian hand pies invented in the southern Italian city of Naples during the 18th century. In my last post we traveled in our kitchens to bonnie auld Scotland and made the iconic Scotch pies. A precursor to the sandwich, they’re portable, eaten with the hands, (hence “hand” pie), and can be filled with almost anything edible that won’t dissolve the crust.

Calzone recipe fromscratch