Pizza Calzone - 7 recipes how to cook Italian closed pizza at home

In Russian cafes, Calzone pizza is less popular than the traditional round pizza. And in vain! It is a big "envelope" with a filling inside and just such a closed pizza is especially juicy, with a bright rich taste.

How to make traditional Calzone pizza dough

This recipe will allow you to quickly and easily cook Calzone pizza dough at home.

Ingredients:

• instant dry yeast - 2 tsp;
• milk is a full glass;
• granulated sugar - 1 tsp;
• olive oil - 3 tbsp. l .;
• salt - 1 tsp;
• flour - 230 - 250 g.

Cooking:

1. Warm up the milk a little. In this case, the liquid should not burn your fingers. Otherwise, the yeast will boil and will not start working.
2. Dissolve sugar in hot milk. In it, sweet grains should completely cease to be felt.
3. Pour yeast into the resulting liquid. Mix everything well.
4. Coat the blank with a cotton towel and leave it near the heat source for a quarter of an hour.
5. Pour oil into the dough. Add remaining dry ingredients.
6. After mixing, roll the resulting plastic elastic homogeneous mass into a ball and again leave it under a napkin in a room without drafts.
7. After 50 - 55 minutes, you can proceed to the formation of pizza. Stuffing for her is very different.

Three medium pizzas can be prepared at once from the indicated amount of ingredients.

Italian sauce for closed pizza

Pizza sauce will be based on tomatoes. It is important to choose ripe juicy and fleshy vegetables for him.

Ingredients:

• tomatoes - 9 - 10 pcs.;
• tomato paste - 2 tsp;
• basil - 1 - 2 pinches;
• oregano - 3 pinches;
• marjoram - 1 pinch;
• dry white wine / lime juice - 1 tsp;
• salt.

Cooking:

1. Release the tomatoes from the skin. Chop their flesh and send in a saucepan to simmer over medium heat until the main part of the liquid evaporates.
2. When about half of the juice leaves the container, you can add all the spices and salt.
3. Wipe the resulting mass through a sieve.
4. Tomato paste is an optional ingredient. It should be added if the home-made tomato mass turned out to be liquidish.
5. Pour in wine / citrus juice.

Mix well and cool the mass. It can immediately be used to grease pizza.

Calzone pizza with chicken

Chicken for the filling can be used in different forms: boiled, smoked, fried until golden brown, baked in the oven.

Ingredients:

• finished dough - half a kilo;
• chicken fillet - 280 - 300 g;
• cheese - 80 - 100 g;
• pizza sauce - 70 - 100 g;
• salt, spices.

Cooking:

1. If raw chicken is taken, it needs to be boiled / baked / fried, and then chopped. Smoked chicken will be enough to immediately cut into small pieces.
2. Divide the dough into three equal pieces. Roll out each, coat with sauce.
3. Pour chicken, spices, chopped cheese onto half the base. Close the second part of the cake. Pinch the edges of the workpiece according to the cheburek principle. Repeat these steps with the remaining two servings.
4. Put future pizzas on a baking sheet with parchment.
5. After 20 - 25 minutes, send them to the hot oven for 45 - 50 minutes. The optimum temperature is 180 degrees.

Ready-made pizza with chicken is delicious, both warm and cold.

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Cooking with ham

Pizza according to this recipe turns out to be delicious with pork and chicken ham.

Ingredients:

• finished dough - half a kilo;
• pizza sauce - 80 - 100 ml;
• ham - 80 - 100 g;
• large tomato - 1 pc.;
• cheese - 80 - 100 g;
• greens - 3 - 4 branches;
• raw yolk - 1 pc.

Cooking:

1. Divide the dough into three parts. Roll each one into a cake.
2. Grease the basics with the sauce. Pour on them cubes of ham and tomato.
3. Spread chopped greens on top. Dill is best for this recipe.
4. Pour the filling with chopped cheese.
5. Cover the ham and tomato with the free half of the tortilla. Securely fasten the edges.
6. Smear blanks with beaten yolk.

Bake pizza with ham 15 - 17 minutes at 200 degrees. Before serving, you can cut each "Calzone" in half.

With smoked sausages and mushrooms

This option of filling is especially popular with a strong half of the family - our men. This closed pizza will be a great snack to the foam.

Ingredients:

• finished dough - half a kilo;
• oyster mushrooms - 130 - 150 g;
• hunting sausages - 80 - 100 g;
• Parmesan - 80 - 100 g;
• olives - 60 - 70 g;
• tomatoes - 2 pcs.;
• pizza sauce - 60 g.

Cooking:

1. Wipe the mushrooms with a damp sponge, finely chop and fry in any fat until tender.
2. Cut the sausage into small circles.
3. Chop olives arbitrarily.
4. Cheese rub.
5. Tomatoes rid of peels. Cut the remaining pulp arbitrarily.
6. The dough is divided into three parts. Spread each sauce.
7. Then lay out all prepared products for the filling on top of the layers. The last to go is Parmesan.

It is delicious to serve ready-made closed pizza by slicing it and adding to it with hot sauces based on tomato paste.

Closed pizza "Calzone" with vegetables

To make the filling stuffed with vegetables, it is worth adding cheese to it.

Ingredients:

• finished dough - half a kilo;
• pizza sauce - 60 g;
• leek - half;
• tomatoes in their own juice - 80 - 100 g;
• sweet pepper - 1 pc.;
• eggplant - 1 pc.;
• garlic - 2 cloves;
• assorted fresh herbs - 1 bunch;
• soft cheese - 70 g.

Cooking:

1. Fry chopped onions and garlic in a saucepan with any preheated fat.
2. When a bright, pleasant onion-garlic aroma appears, add slices of eggplant and sweet pepper. Cook them until soft and light brown.
3. Then send tomatoes along with juice to the prepared products.Leave the mass to simmer over low heat for 40 minutes. At the same time, make sure that the mixture does not burn.
4. Sprinkle the resulting composition with chopped herbs. Salt and spices can be added to taste.
5. Add chopped soft cheese. It will add density and ductility to the filling.
6. Divide the dough into three parts and roll everything into a circle. Put the filling on half of each blank and cover with the free part of the dough.

Bake pizza at 220 degrees 15 - 17 minutes. The baking surface should become pleasantly golden during this time.

With minced meat, tomatoes and cheese

Best for pizza toppings with ground beef. But you can take its mixture with pork in equal proportions.

Ingredients:

• finished dough - half a kilo;
• canned tomatoes - 380 - 400 g;
• minced meat - 380 - 400 g;
• onion - 1 head;
• garlic - clove;
• Mozzarella - 130 - 150 g;
• basil greens, oil, spices and salt.

Cooking:

1. Chop onion and garlic very finely. Fry with minced meat until all ingredients are cooked. Salt the mass. Add spices to taste.
2. Add tomatoes. Simmer foods together for another 7 to 8 minutes.
3. Grind greens. Cut the cheese into slices.
4. To form three Calzone pizzas with juicy meat filling from ready-made minced meat and dough. First, on the cakes, you need to spread the contents of the pan, and on top - cheese and greens.

Bake pizzas on parchment covered baking sheet. It will be enough 13 - 15 minutes at 200 degrees.

Step by step recipe from Ilya Lazerson

Ilya Lazerson advises to add ½ tsp to pizza sauce. vinegar. Follow his advice!

Ingredients:

• finished dough - half a kilo;
• pizza sauce - 70 g;
• Mozzarella - 120 g;
• dried ham - 120 g;
• tomato sauce - 3 tbsp. l .;
• basil (fresh leaves) - to taste.

Cooking:

1. Roll out three approximately equal dough cakes. Grease each with pizza sauce.
2. Top with thin plates of dried ham, large pieces of Mozzarella and fresh basil leaves.
3. Fasten the ends of each workpiece.
4. Top the future Calzone with tomato sauce.

Send the blanks to the maximum preheated oven for 8 - 9 minutes.

Cooking from puff pastry

This is the fastest and easiest way to cook Calzone Subito pizza (the prefix “Subito” translates to “instant”). Ready-made puff pastry can be purchased today at virtually every supermarket.

Ingredients:

• minced meat from rabbit meat - half a kilo;
• puff pastry - 2 packs per pound;
• small tomatoes - 10 pcs.;
• hard cheese - half a kilo;
• onion - 4 pcs.;
• salt, spices, mayonnaise and ketchup.

Cooking:

1. Defrost the dough according to the instructions.
2. Fry thin onion rings and minced meat on any fat until tender. Salt, add selected spices.
3. Grate the cheese coarsely, and cut the tomatoes into circles.
4. Roll out the dough, dividing it into 4 layers, grease each with a mixture of ketchup and mayonnaise.
5. On a half of each base, first put the meat with onions, then the tomatoes and, finally, the cheese.
6. Cover with the free part of the dough. Securely fasten the edges.

Bake a treat at 200 - 210 degrees 18 - 20 minutes.

Regardless of the recipe chosen, the composition of the filling, each culinary specialist can choose according to his taste. On the surface of any workpiece, it is worth making a couple of incisions to release steam. Then the pizza is better and faster baked, and, in addition, it will look more appetizing.