Recipe for Closed Pizza at Home

Closed pizza "Calzone"

Closed pizza at home can be prepared with almost any filling. However, the most successful option is a mixture of tomato paste, tomatoes, sausage and hard cheese. But the dough for a closed pizza is more important, since an incorrectly prepared base will not allow you to prepare the Calzone correctly. Let's find out how to make a closed Calzone pizza at home.

You will need

Ingredients for the dough:

• flour – 400 g;
• yeast – 7 g;
• salt - to taste;
• water at room temperature – 300 ml;
• vegetable oil - ½ part tablespoon.

Ingredients

Ingredients for filling:

• onions – 1 piece;
• sausage – 150 g;
• tomato paste – 100 g;
• tomatoes – 2-3 pcs;
• hard cheese – 100 g.

How to choose the right products

To make the Calzone as tasty as possible, you need to choose the right ingredients. The flour should be wheat, and the yeast should be dry, fast-acting. At home, you can use boiled sausage or replace it with salami. You can take any type of hard cheese, but ideally for pizza use Mozzarella. If you take exactly these products for “Calzone”, then the baked goods will turn out as tasty as possible.

How to make pizza calzone

Closed pizza "Calzone" from the ingredients given above is quite simple to prepare. You need to mix the ingredients for the dough and knead it. The ingredients for the filling must be chopped, and the sausage and onions must be lightly fried in a frying pan. All that remains is to roll out the risen dough, spread the flatbread with tomato paste and place the crushed ingredients on top. Now you need to fold the cake in half, place it on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes.

Puff pastry pizza

Pizza “Calzone” can be prepared not only according to the classic recipe, but also from puff pastry. Such pastries turn out to be very unusual, but tasty and appetizing. Another advantage of puff pastry pizza is that it is quite simple to prepare. After all, you do not need to prepare the ingredients for the dough, since you must first buy it in the store. Now let's take a step-by-step look at the recipe for closed puff pastry pizza at home.

Grocery list

• puff pastry – 500 g;
• ham – 150 g;
• tomato paste – 100 g;
• tomatoes – 2-3 pcs;
• chicken egg – 1 piece;
• hard cheese – 100 g.

How to prepare closed puff pastry pizza

1. Buy store-bought puff pastry at the store, defrost and lightly roll out using a rolling pin.
2. Cut the dough into rectangles with sides of 10 and 20 centimeters (approximately possible).
3. Cut the ham into small pieces, first cut the tomatoes into circles and then simply chop them.
4. Grate the hard cheese on a coarse or medium grater (if you like cheese pizzas, the amount of this ingredient can be increased).
5. Place tomato paste on the edge of the rectangular, top with tomatoes and ham, and sprinkle with grated cheese on top.
6. Wrap the dough, pinch (closes the edge) and place on a baking sheet, which must first be greased with vegetable oil.
7. Prick the Calzone in several places with a fork or knife so that the air from the inside can escape out.
8. Break the chicken egg into a deep container and beat thoroughly with a fork, then coat all prepared pizzas with the egg mixture.
9. Bake the closed pizza in the oven for 15 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.
10. The calzone is ready and ready to serve.

Pizza dough

Photo: IL Letterato Restaurant
Recipe by Dmitry Gudkov, chef of the IL Letterato restaurant

• 250 g wheat flour
• 3 g compressed yeast
• 175 ml cold water
• 5 g fine sea salt
• 1.5-2 tbsp. l. olive oil

Step 1. Separate 35 g of water. Mix the rest of the water in a bowl with the flour until the flour is completely moistened.

Step 2. Cover the bowl with a lid or film and leave for 20 minutes.

Step 3. Pour half of the reserved water into the container with salt and stir. Dissolve the yeast in the remaining water. Pour the yeast mixture into the flour mixture and mix thoroughly, squeezing and unclenching the brush so that the dough passes between your fingers. When the dough has taken up all the liquid, add the salt solution in the same way. Add olive oil and stir into dough. The kneaded dough will be slightly wet and lumpy.

Step 4. Fold the dough using the “stretch and fold” method, transfer to a large, clean bowl greased with vegetable oil and cover with a lid or cover with cling film.

Step 5. Leave the dough to ferment at room temperature for 1 hour, making 3 kneads during this time using the “stretch and fold” method. After each kneading, the dough will become smoother and more elastic.

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Step 6. Place the bowl of dough in the refrigerator (refrigerator temperature at least 4 °C) for 12 to 48 hours.

Step 7. About an hour before baking, remove the dough from the refrigerator, weigh and divide into 2 parts, depending on the desired size of the pizza. You need to form the dough into balls, cover with film and leave at room temperature for 1 hour to warm up.

Step 8. While the dough is warming up, you need to preheat the oven to maximum temperature. At least up to 230 degrees. It is advisable to use a baking stone. If not using a stone, heat an inverted baking sheet in the oven.

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Step 9: Cut two or three pieces of baking paper the same size as the baking stone or baking tray. Stretch a piece of dough on each sheet, forming a circle 3-4 mm thick.

Step 10. Stepping back about 1 cm from the edge, you need to grease the dough with sauce and arrange the cheese randomly. Place the filling (see recipes below)

Step 11: Using a shovel or appropriately sized wooden cutting board, transfer the pizza paper to a stone or baking sheet. Bake the pizza for 7-10 minutes. The cheese in the filling should melt and the sides should become golden brown.

A simple lavash recipe

You can make Calzone pizza from lavash, which adds zest to the flavor background of the dish. You can use any ingredients as a filling: mayonnaise, hard cheese, bell pepper, pineapples, sugar, chicken, potatoes, and so on. However, we will stick to the usual cooking method. Let's take only peppers, tomatoes, cheese and mushrooms. The result is a delicious vegetable and mushroom closed pizza in the oven. Let's look at a step-by-step recipe for cooking at home.

What to take

• lavash – 1 sheet;
• mushrooms – 150 g;
• tomato paste – 100 g;
• tomatoes – 2-3 pcs;
• bell pepper – 1 piece;
• chicken egg – 1 piece;
• hard cheese – 100 g.

Step-by-step instruction

1. Cut the pita bread into two equal pieces: each will make one pizza.
2. Cut the mushrooms into small pieces, first cut the tomatoes into circles and then simply chop them.
3. Fry champignons or other selected mushrooms in a frying pan in oil for 10 minutes, since this ingredient will not have time to cook in the oven.
4. Grate the hard cheese on a coarse or medium grater (if you like cheese pizzas, the amount of this ingredient can be increased).
5. Wash the bell pepper, remove the core and cut into small pieces.
6. First place tomato paste in the center of the pita bread, then mix mushrooms, tomatoes and peppers, and on top there should be hard cheese.
7. Wrap the dough into a triangle and pinch it (you can use it in another shape, but the classic Calzone recipe has a triangular shape).
8. Place on a baking sheet, which must first be greased with vegetable oil.
9. Prick the Calzone in several places with a fork or knife so that the air from the inside can escape out.
10. Break the chicken egg into a deep container and beat thoroughly with a fork, then coat all prepared pizzas with the egg mixture.
11. Bake the closed pizza in the oven for 15 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius.
12. The calzone is ready and ready to serve.

Lenten pizza with mushrooms

Photo: Restaurant “Chaikhona No. 1” by the Vasilchuk brothers
Recipe by Sergei Sushchenko, brand chef of the VASILCHUKÍ Chaihona No. 1 restaurants (Chaikhona No. 1 of the Vasilchuk brothers)

For the test:

• 135 ml water
• 5 ml vegetable oil
• 65 g pizza flour
• 35 g durum wheat flour
• 35 g baking mixture

For filling:

• 180 g oyster mushrooms, fried with onions
• 5 g enoki mushrooms
• 20 g caramelized onions
• 60 g vegetable cream
• some dried mushrooms, ground to powder
• 40 g durum wheat flour
• 20 g leeks (white part)
• salt and pepper

Step 1. Mix all dry ingredients. Gradually add water, kneading the dough until smooth.

Step 2. Wrap the dough in cling film and leave at room temperature for 20 minutes. Then put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Step 3: Before using, remove the dough from the refrigerator to allow it to come to room temperature.

Step 4. Whip the cream together with mushroom powder.

Step 5. Roll out a piece of dough into a circle with a diameter of 28 cm using flour. Brush the dough with a sauce made from cream and mushroom powder, leaving a 2cm border.

Step 6. Place leeks, cut into rings, mixed mushrooms, caramelized onions.

Step 7. Bake in the oven at maximum temperature until done.

Step 8. When serving, decorate with enoki mushrooms.

Cooking tips

It is recommended to use Mozzarella cheese. It can be mixed with Cheddar to taste. It is these two varieties that are used in the preparation of classic closed pizza in pizzerias.

You can cook pizza faster - in 8-10 minutes if you cook it in the oven at 230 degrees Celsius. However, in this case, the ingredients will lose some of their taste.

Instead of tomato paste, you can use mayonnaise, ketchup, sour cream or cream as a sauce. But depending on the chosen sauce, it is important to choose the right ingredients for the filling. Otherwise the dish will not be as tasty.

Preparing the dough

How to prepare calzone base at home? To prepare the test you will need:

• two glasses of flour;
• one glass of milk;
• one tablespoon of dry yeast;
• three tablespoons of olive oil;
• one chicken egg yolk;
• one tablespoon of sugar;
• salt to taste (if the pizza is dessert, you don’t have to add it).

Description of the cooking process:

1. First, warm the milk a little (to about 30-35 degrees). Dissolve sugar in it and add yeast. Leave the mixture for twenty minutes to allow the yeast to activate and swell.
2. Sift flour into a bowl, add salt.
3. Now add olive oil and milk with yeast and sugar to the flour.
4. Knead the dough. Knead it with your hands and quite vigorously.
5. When the dough is ready, put it in a warm place for a couple of hours to rise. Cover the bowl with a towel.

With smoked sausages and mushrooms

List of ingredients:

For filling:

• tomatoes – 0.1 kg;
• oyster mushrooms – 0.15 kg;
• olives – 50 g;
• smoked sausages – 0.1 kg;
• tomato sauce – 50 g;
• parmesan – 0.1 kg;
• salt to taste.

For the test:

• olive oil – 35 ml;
• water – 130 ml;
• flour – 250 g;
• a pinch of salt;
• yeast – 5 g.

How to cook closed pizza:

1. Make a dough from the above ingredients, put it in a warm place for 60 minutes.
2. Finely chop the mushrooms and process in a frying pan.
3. Chop smoked sausages into slices.
4. Cut the olives into rings.
5. Remove the skin from the tomato and cut the pulp into slices.
6. We pass the cheese through a grater.
7. It's time to turn on the oven and set its temperature to 220 degrees.
8. Roll out the dough, divided into two parts, into two flat cakes.
9. Coat half of the first flatbread with tomato sauce.
10. Place sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes, olives, and cheese on it. Cover the filling with the second ungreased half of the dough.
11. Place the pizza on a baking sheet, make cuts and bake for 20 minutes. Bon appetit!

From puff pastry

If you prefer puff pastry and don't want to waste time preparing it, try the following calzone recipe. A very light and at the same time nutritious dish.

⏰ — 30 min; ⭐ - easy;