Basic pizza stone calzone
Basic pizza stone calzone

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, basic pizza stone calzone. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Basic pizza stone calzone is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Basic pizza stone calzone is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook basic pizza stone calzone using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Basic pizza stone calzone:
  1. Take 1 packages pizza dough
  2. Prepare 1 cup mozzarella shredded cheese or more if you choose
  3. Take 1/2 cup Mexican or Italian blend shredded cheese or more if you choose
  4. Take 2 lb container of Whole or skim ricotta cheese
  5. Make ready 2 cup Precooked grilled chicken strips
  6. Get 6 slice Precooked bacon
  7. Take 1 small amount of olive oil

After all, a calzone uses pizza dough and begins as a flat, pliable circle, only diverging when toppings are added to just half. The untopped dough half is then folded over the half sporting cheese, vegetables, and often meat, creating a dough half-moon, crimped along. I did a little experiment for dinner the other day. I wanted to bake some calzones using Alton Brown's pizza dough recipe, bake it on my pizza stone, and see if the bottom browns as well using parchment paper instead of being put directly on the stone.

Steps to make Basic pizza stone calzone:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°
  2. Roll out room temperature pizza dough on a rectangle cutting board. I used a thin flexible one. Make sure to use plenty of flour to prevent any sticking.
  3. In a large bowl combine ricotta, all cheese, chicken and bacon. Mix well.
  4. Spoon mixture onto half of rolled out dough.
  5. Fold dough over mixture and pinch shut. Slide calzone off cutting board onto pizza stone.
  6. Brush top of calzone with olive oil.
  7. Bake 30 minutes. I usually turn the broiler on for a minute or less to brown the top after it's done baking.
  8. Serve with your favorite marinara sauce.

In short, with olive oil brushed on top and parchment paper beneath, it browned perfectly on the pizza stone. Calzones are an outside-in version of a pizza, looking like you folded a smaller pizza in half and sealed up the sides. Aside from the difference in presentation, there are a few key distinctions. Calzone fillings all get mixed before filling up the dough, as opposed to pizza's layered approach. Calzones are the original hot pockets but better with a homemade Pizza Dough, homemade (EASY) Pizza Sauce and with sides of ranch dressing (see recipe below) and easy marinara sauce you can make these calzones for a crowd as appetizers or for easy weeknight dinners.

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