A Pizza Calzone is a folded 10" Pizza Dough with Toppings of your choice, Pizza Sauce & Cheese. This recipe uses an Overnight Pizza Dough with a Pizza Thyme Sauce. Optionally, you can have Pizza/Marinara Sauce on the side to dip the Calzone in. You can also include Special Garlic Sauce and Donair Sauce for dipping, and even Flavored Oils like you would use for Bread Sticks. For these Calzones, we are oven baking and then brushing with a Special Garlic Sauce.
Servings: 7 Calzones
Equipment
- 1 Pizza Screen
- 1 Pizza Stone
Ingredients
Calzone
- 1 Portion Overnight Pizza Dough - 200g Pizza Dough (10 Inches)
- As Needed Pizza Thyme Sauce - or other choice Pizza Sauce
- As Desired Choice of Fillings
- A Handful Mozzarella Cheese Blend - 3:1 Mozzarella to Provolone
- As Needed Special Garlic Sauce
Instructions
- Previously Made: Make the Pizza Dough & Pizza Sauce along with any toppings the day before. At the same time, you plan on cooking the Calzones the next day. Portion the dough into 200g per Calzone.
- Preheat: Preheat the Oven to the highest setting for 1 hour. This is usually around 500 F to 550 F. With the Rack in the lowest position with a Pizza Stone and the other rack in middle position.
- Shaping: With a Rolling Pin, roll out the 200g Pizza Dough on a floured surface to 10 inches. Pick the dough up and toss from one hand to the next to shake off any excess flour.
- Fillings: Place the dough on a pizza screen and assemble on half of the pizzaPizza Sauce, leaving a crust around the edgeFlat toppings firstFollowed by bulky toppingsLastly Cheese.
- Crimping: Fold over the other half of the dough and crimp the edges. Flatten the Calzone a bit with your palm to evenly distribute the fillings.
- Scoring: Make three (3) quick slits across the top of the Calzones with a very sharp knife.
- Cooking: Place the Pizza screen with one or more Calzones into the oven.4 Minute Cook: Cook the Calzone/s for precisely 4 minutes in the middle rack position.1 Adjustment: Immediately place the oven on broil and remove the Calzone/s from the pizza screen and place directly on the pizza stone in the bottom rack position. Turn the Calzone/s around so that the back is now facing the front. 3 Minute Broil: Leave the Calzone/s to broil for 3 minutes. Immediately place the oven off of broil and back to the highest setting. Remove the Calzone/s and repeat for each one.
- Garnishing: Remove from the oven and brush on Special Garlic Sauce. Garnish with Parmesan Cheese, Parsley, Chili Flakes or Aleppo, if desired.
Notes
Portioning Options: Either the hand tossed pizza dough or the overnight pizza dough makes about, 1500g of Dough. Which is enough to make 7 Calzones.
- Optionally, you could portion out 454g for either Garlic Fingers or Twisty bread and make 5 x Calzones.
- or making both the Garlic Fingers & Twisty Bread. Which will leave you enough dough to do 3 x Calzones.