Italian's Calzone recipe

The calzone, also known as wrapped pizza or pizza pants, is a different proposition to savor your favorite pizza. As lunch turns out to be extremely delicious and if you know how to do bread dough, you can make it in a jiffy.

Then teach you how to prepare it, keep in mind that the amount of ingredients that you propose below will be sufficient for two medium pizzas, therefore if you need to do more, it will be necessary that fits the amount of ingredients, so let's get to work:

Ingredients

• 320 grams of flour strength
• 25 ml of extra virgin olive oil
• 7 grams of powdered Baker's yeast
• 170 ml of water
• 1 tsp. salt
• 3 large tomatoes
• Buffalo mozzarella cheese
• 70 grams of portobello mushrooms
• Oregano

Preparation

In a deep Bowl, sift the flour and the yeast, is a small volcano, and inside, deposited olive oil, water and salt. Begins to knead everything starting from the Center and extending until you can cover all the flour. When you get a more or less uniform mass, put it on a clean surface and knead vigorously for about 10 minutes.
Put it back in the bowl and let stand covered with a plastic wrap for at least an hour, until it to ferment. Once has doubled its size, returns to knead it until it is tender and flatten it with a rolling pin. You can give the ground a round or square shape, this will be specifically depending on your taste.
Now takes tomatoes and grate them very well, add a little salt and put them on the ground. Destroys the cheese mozzarella cheese with a fork, about drain you all the water (this will prevent the calzone is too wet) and place them on the tomato. Cut into thin slices of portobello mushrooms and place them on the cheese.
Then Preheat oven to 220 ° C; and only need to sprinkle with oregano and close the calzone sealing the ends of the same. You can apply a little water to the edges prior to closing and then fold them up so that they will not take off or open during the process of baking.
Located your calzone on a tray for baking and take it to the oven, where you have to let them at least ten minutes. The idea of this recipe is that it is crunchy on the outside but soft on the inside.
Keep in mind that if you have children and want to be involved in the preparation, you can put them to make the dough and let them be who select ingredients. The only people who do not have to replace are the tomato and cheese, otherwise get ready to enjoy in the company of this exquisite and wonderful recipe.

Additional tips

• The calzone can be stuffed with a variety of ingredients, so let your imagination and remember that the most important thing at the time of cooking is you spend a good time while doing it.
• When you use fresh yeast , you should dilute it first in a little warm water and then add it to the other ingredients.
• If you want to add more flavor to the recipe, you can sprinkle the filling with Parmesan cheese.
• Marble surfaces are perfect for the kneading process. However, there are few people that have this kind of materials in their kitchens.
• If you don't have a rolling pin, you can simply stretch the dough of a few using your hands.
• If you want to save time, can start preparing the vegetables while the dough is fermented.
• Before starting any type of recipe, both courtesy and safety, the best thing you can do is to ask your guests what are the ingredients that prefer, this will prevent you give them an unpleasant surprise or use elements that have allergies.

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