"Calzone" - pizza with a secret

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Italian cuisine is famous for its pizzas, pastas and desserts. To enjoy many of them, there is no need to visit cafes and restaurants. Any, even a novice hostess, can cook many dishes in her own kitchen to please relatives or guests. "Calzone" - pizza, which is a traditional Italian snack. Delicious, fairly quick to prepare, it can even be served at the festive table. Although it has the word "pizza" in its name, it is rather a closed pie. It can be prepared with various fillings: with porcini mushrooms or pickled cucumbers, as well as with meat, chicken, vegetables - everything that is currently in your refrigerator can be used. How pizza "Calzone" is prepared, read the recipe with a photo and the technology for preparing the dough and toppings further in our article. Keep in mind that although ready-made dough for baking can be bought at the store, as well as chopped filling ingredients, it is still better to make them yourself, because it does not take you muchtime. In total, you will spend approximately 10 minutes to prepare the base (plus 30 minutes for the dough to rise), and no more than 10-15 minutes for the filling. The result is an amazingly tasty dish that will more than pay off such a modest time investment.

Pizza "Calzone": thin dough recipe for baking

It's no secret that the success of this dish is half, or maybe more, dependent on crispy thin dough. After all, putting on it any, even the simplest filling, you will get excellent pastries, almost like in a real Italian restaurant. "Calzone" - a pizza that requires the preparation of yeast dough, for which you will need:

• 400ml (about 1.5 cup) milk;
• 660 grams of wheat flour (that's 5 cups of 200 ml);
• 4 tablespoonfuls of olive oil;
• 14 grams dry yeast;
• one teaspoon of s alt and 4 teaspoons of sugar.

If you took the milk out of the refrigerator, warm it slightly to room temperature, dissolve the sugar and yeast in it. Let stand for approximately 10-15 minutes. Add s alt to the flour sifted through a sieve, pour the liquid mixture of yeast and milk into it, mix well, and then add olive oil. You should get a moderately thick dough, you need to knead it thoroughly for 5-7 minutes. Next, roll it into a ball and place it in a lightly oiled container where the dough will rise. Leave for half an hour in a warm place. After the base for baking is ready,divide it into 4 parts (the ingredients in the recipe are enough for exactly 4 pizzas), roll it thinly with a rolling pin.

Preparing the filling for "Calzone": pizza with mushrooms and pickled cucumbers

The filling for this Italian pie can be absolutely anything, you can use whatever your imagination is enough for. Let's prepare the filling of white pickled mushrooms and cucumbers. For her take:

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  1-2 large pickled cucumbers;

• 150-200 grams of pickled porcini mushrooms;
• 300 grams of ham;
• 5-6 medium ripe tomatoes;
• 4 full tablespoons of any ketchup;
• 150 grams grated hard cheese;
• spices.

Finely dice ham, mushrooms and cucumbers; tomatoes - in small slices. Roll out two thin sheets of dough. On the first, lower, lay out the tomatoes first, after the ham, mushrooms and cucumbers, sprinkle with "Provencal herbs", and then grated cheese. Close the second half of the dough, fasten the edges, forming a beautiful roller. Lubricate the surface with ketchup, and then bake in the oven (at 220 degrees) for 10-15 minutes. "Calzone" is a pizza that all members of your family will definitely like, and, as you can see, it is prepared quite simply and quickly.