Sausage & Broccoli Calzones
Food gifts are always welcome, no matter how weird they may be.
My friend Sally dropped off 2 huge lumps of fresh pizza dough from a famous New Jersey pizzeria early one morning as one of my holiday presents.
I froze the 2 lumps knowing exactly what I would be making.
Calzones, what else?
When I was a kid, the only calzone you could buy at the local pizzeria was one stuffed with ricotta cheese and mozzarella and some ham. I would watch the hot ricotta and cheeses ooze out all over the paper plates and try to eat the heavy mess with my plastic knife and fork.
Now that I am grown up (so they tell me), I can stuff a calzone with whatever I want.
Even broccoli.
You are welcome to make your own pizza dough, but if you live by a good pizza guy, then buy it from him.
My pizza guy (I am dough challenged), flipped and rolled out my circle of dough into a large flat circle, as if it were pizza night.
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I cut the circle in half with a pizza cutter to make 2 crescent shapes of dough.
For the filling, I prepared a lasagne type of filling:
1 cup ricotta cheese
1 cup torn mozzarella cheese
handful of parmesan
1 egg
salt & pepper
Mix together and set aside.
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I cooked 2 sausage links with casing removed, and added 3 garlic cloves and a head of chopped, steamed broccoli florets to the same pot as the sausage.
I cooked the broccoli and sausage together until the sausage meat was cooked thru.
Spread some of the ricotta mixture on one half of a crescent, and top with some sausage and broccoli mixture.
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Repeat on the other half crescent.
Fold dough over leaving 1" around the sides so you can seal them into tight pockets.
Cut 3 slits on the top to vent.
You will have 2 HUGE calzones, enough for a hungry family.
Transfer to a parchment lined baking sheet with a heavy spatula.
Bake at 450F for about 10-12 minutes until the dough is nice and golden and some filling is oozing thru the holes.
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Let rest 5 minutes before cutting open and serve with a side of tomato sauce.
Hold the paper plates!
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Comments
Thanks.
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