Bel Paese Calzoni

Name: Bel Paese Calzoni
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 100 g (4 oz, ⅔ cup) mortadella or prosciutto, coarsely chopped; A little beaten egg; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 75 g (3 oz, ⅓ cup) Bel Paese, rind removed, coarsely chopped; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 quantity of risen pizza dough; Vegetable oil for deep-frying (optional); Salt & freshly ground black pepper; Flour, for dusting; 25 g (1 oz, ⅛ cup) ricotta

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Passion for Cheese

By Paul Gayler

Published 1997

About

Calzone means pair of trousers! It is a sort of folded pizza, rather like a pasty, and is particularly delicious if you include lots of cheese so the molten cheese spills out when you cut into it. You can vary the fillings to your own taste - try mozzarella, salami or vegetables.

Ingredients

1 quantity of risen pizza dough
Flour, for dusting
25 g (1 oz

Pizza
Vegetarian

Method

Knock back the risen dough, roll it out thinly on a floured surface and cut out eight 15 cm (6 in) rounds.

Mix together the ricotta, garlic, olive oil, Bel Paese and chopped mortadella or prosciutto and season to taste. Put the mixture on one half of each round of dough, leaving a border. Brush the edges of the dough with beaten egg and fold over to make turnovers. Crimp the edges for a