[I:http://www.naturmeds.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/RajivKapur10.jpg]Today lets take a look at the famous Italian Recipe- Stromboli. The true change between stromboli and calzone is that the former is rolled and the second is folded. There isn’t any difference in the ingredients. Both generally contain cheese (usually mozzarella), meat, and/or vegetables. I propose changing the ingredients whenever you prepare them. But stromboli generally contains tomato sauce inside and calzone has sauce over the side for dipping.
Ingredients (serves 5):
* two tablespoons – extra virgin olive oil * Two cloves – garlic, powdered * 1 – large onion, sliced * One – green pepper, diced * One pound – button mushrooms, chopped * 4 – mild Italian sausage, casing removed * 1 1/2 pounds – mozzarella cheese, grated
Preparation:
Make the calzone dough similar to the method you prepare the stomboli dough. In addition prepare the tomato sauce the same method the stomboli tomato sauce was made.
Pour the oil into the pan and heat up over medium flame and add the garlic. Cook for one minute and then add the onion, green pepper, and mushrooms.
Saute till the time the mushrooms have lost their water and the mixture starts to brown. Cook the sausage in a different pan until it begins to brown, breaking up the meat into bits.
Preheat oven to four hundred degrees F. Pinch the dough apart into 5 separate but identical dough balls. Roll every ball flat on a lightly floured surface.
Wrap every piece of dough by means of a layer of mozzarella cheese, followed by the sausage and vegetables (evenly distribute).
Cover again with the remaining mozzarella cheese and fold each dough sheet over, sealing the ends.
By means of a spatula, move the calzones to two lightly oiled baking sheets. Place the two pans in the oven, one on the lower rack and the other on the upper rack. Cook for fifteen minutes and then reverse the baking sheets and cook for an additional fifteen minutes. Serve with the tomato sauce on the top or on the side for dipping.
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