Vegetable Calzone Recipe

Pizza crust pizza sauce Sauté vegetables on high heat to minimize moisture

We will need one 8" Pizza crust. You may elect to make your own Pizza crust , buy a frozen crust or Naan. If you are using frozen crust or frozen Naan, make sure they are fully thawed out. Par-baked crusts or Naan are not suitable for Calzone, as the edges can not be sealed.

Ingredients

1. Pizza Crust 8" (6 oz dough): 1

2. Curry Pizza sauce : ¼ Cup

3 Vegetable filling

Thinly sliced onions: ¼ Cup

Tomatoes: ¼ Cup Chopped, water gel and seeds removed. We want just the meat of tomatoes.

Fresh Green bell pepper thinly sliced: ¼ cup

Fresh Shredded carrots: ¼ cup

Fresh mushrooms: ¼ cup

Fresh Serrano: 1 finely chopped. Remove seeds and white membrane to reduce heat.

Vegetable oil: 1 Tablespoon

Cumin powder: 1/8 teaspoon

Cayenne pepper: 1/8 teaspoon

Salt: 1/8 teaspoon

4. Paneer crumbled: 2 oz

5. Water for sealing

6. Oil for basting

Method

Vegetable Filling

1. Heat oil in a pan. Add vegetable and spices. Sauté about 2 to 4 minutes on high. Idea is not to sauté and cook. We want to minimize the water, and coat the vegetables with spices. Let it cool. 

Assembly

1. Oil an aluminum baking pan

2. Place the pizza crust.

3. Baste the Pizza crust with oil.  Turn it over so that the basted surface is in touch with the baking pan.

4. Spread the pizza sauce leaving about  ¾" to the edge empty. The pizza sauce applied is shown in red.

5. Put all the filling on top of the sauce on the lower half. The filling are shown in Blue color.

6. Apply water to the empty are as shown in green color.

7. Fold over the area in white over the area with the filling. Press arched area to form sea. Use fork to make the seal more desirable. Prick the top with a fork to make holes for steam to escape.

8. Pre-heat oven to 450º F  for about 40 minutes.

10. Put the assembled Calzone on the pizza peel.

11. Transfer the Calzone in the pan from the peel to the stone.

12. If you are using par-baked pizza crust or par-baked Naan, bake for 8 minutes. If you are using fresh pizza dough, bake for 10 minutes.

13. Use pizza peel to remove the Calzone and transfer to serving pan.