Let’s talk about Calzone. In my humble opinion, Pizza Calzone is seriously underappreciated. They are often skipped when thinking about traditional Italian pizza and barely mentioned by pizza chefs. But why? A Calzone is in fact a mini pizza pocket, that anyone can make at home! It is made of your favorite pizza dough, and can be filled with any toppings you like – from spinach and cheese to chicken and pineapple.
Some say that traditional Calzone does not have tomato sauce in it. Well, I think sauce adds massively to the flavor, so in my recipe below – I use a combination of traditional pizza sauce and barbecue sauce. End result speaks for itself, so if you wish to bring something special to your pizza night – go ahead, and make Calzone.
PS If you are curious what else could be done from the same dough – check out my Pizza Margherita and Pizza Bread recipes.
Pizza Calzone
Ingredients
Dough:
- 250 grams Bread Wheat Flour
- 0.5 grams Dry Yeasts
- 5 grams Table Salt
- 12 grams Olive Oil (extra virgin)
- 150 grams Water (20 °C/ 68 °F)
Filling:
- 15 grams Pizza Sauce
- 10 grams BBQ Sauce
- 30 grams Salami slices
- 15 grams Jamon
- 75 grams Grated Mozarella
Instructions
- Stretch the dough into a round shape. The easiest way to do it with gentle rotating moves of the dough pulling it aside while spinning. And don’t forget to use semolina flour to ease dough handling. In addition, it will give a nice crispness to the crust of the pizza after bake.
- Place your pizza dough on the baking paper.
- Put tomato and BBQ sauce on the dough and spread it evenly with a spoon leaving 1 cm edges.
- Put sliced salami and Jamon on half of the dough.
- Sprinkle with grated mozzarella.
- Fold the dough by half, covering the filled part with an empty one, and stick the edges together.
- Make 2-3 cuts on the surface of the calzone to allow steam to go out and don’t burst the pizza during baking.
- Preheat the oven with a pizza stone to 250 °C / 480 °F.
- Place pizza on the stone (lift it by holding baking paper).
- Bake for 15-18 min w/o the fan until the surface is golden brown.
