Ingredients
Scale
- 1/4 recipe Pizza Dough, preferably home made, or enough to roll out to a 12 inch circle (my recipe makes about 4 calzones)
- For one Calzone:
- 2 sweet Italian sausage, casings removed
- 1 green bell pepper, sliced thinly
- 6–8 mushrooms, sliced thinly
- 1/2 white or yellow onion, thinly sliced
- 1/4 tsp fennel seed
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/4 c. Provolone cheese
- 1/4 c. Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 c. Fontina cheese
- 4–6 small pinches fresh Mozzarella
- Sprinkle dried Basil
- Sprinkle dried oregano
Instructions
- Make one recipe of pizza dough.
- Preheat oven to 500 degrees F and place pizza stone in oven.
- While the dough is rising, make filling.
- In saute pan, take sausage out of the casings, and cook until slightly browned. Remove from pan and set aside. Put a tablespoon or so of olive oil in the pan you cooked the sausages in. Put green pepper, onions, and mushrooms in and saute on medium/medium high heat until soft and slightly browned. Add minced garlic and fennel seed, and cook for about a minute longer.
- Add sausage to vegetable mixture. Set aside.
- Grate Parmesan, Fontina and Provolone cheeses. You probably want about 1/2 cup each.
- Take about a quarter (or enough to roll out to about 10 to 12 inches around). Roll out in between 2 sheets of parchment. Discard the top parchment, and leave the dough on the bottom parchment.
- Add some of the sausage/vegetable filling (I didn’t measure mine, but I would guess at about 3/4 to 1 cup). Sprinkle some of the three grated cheeses and add four or so pinches of fresh Mozzarella cheese. Sprinkle with dried Basil and Oregano.
- Fold over in the shape of a half moon. Take the bottom half edge and fold over the top half edge to “seal” the calzone. If you just fold in half and press the edges together, the juices and melted cheese could seep out. You not only lose your precious filling, you make a mess of your pizza stone.
- Take the calzone parchment and all and put on the pizza stone in your preheated oven.
- Cook for 20 minutes or so, until brown and golden.
Notes
Measurements in this recipe are for 1 calzone. My pizza dough recipe makes about 4 calzones. If making 4 calzones increase the ingredients.