How To Make Real Italian Calzones

How To Make Real Italian Calzones.
You can make a calzone if you can make a pizza. Calzones are carefully relevant to pizzas, sort of a folded over pizza. A calzone is absolutely nothing more than a pizza folded in half and baked as a turnover
In some way however, cutting into the crisp, golden crust of a calzone to disclose a luscious filling is a various experience than consuming a pizza. Calzones are simple to prepare in your home. While having a pizza or bread stone definitely assists to make a crisp crust, you can bake calzones on a heavy sheet pan with excellent outcomes.

Total Time: 3 hr 40 min 
Prep:  40 min 
Inactive:  2 hr 
Cook:  1 hr 
Yield:  8 servings 
Level:  Easy


Ingredients:
16 entire frozen, un-risen supper rolls (I utilize Rhodes, can likewise make use of frozen bread loaves).
1 tablespoon butter.
1 entire medium onion, diced.
1 pound breakfast or Italian sausage.
1/2 teaspoon Italian flavoring.
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes.
15 ounces entire milk ricotta.
1 1/2 cups grated mozzarella.
1/2 cup grated Parmesan.
2 tablespoons sliced fresh parsley.
1/2 teaspoon salt.
Black pepper.
2 entire eggs plus 1 entire egg, beaten.
All-purpose flour, for cleaning.
Marinara Sauce, warmed, for serving, dish follows.
Marinara Sauce:
Olive oil.
3 to 4 entire cloves garlic, minced.
1 entire little to medium onion, sliced.
1/2 cup white wine (or chicken broth).
3 15-ounce cans crushed tomatoes.
Salt and ground pepper.
Pinch sugar.
Fresh parsley leaves.
Fresh basil leaves.


Directions:
- Location the frozen rolls (or frozen bread loaves) on a flat pan to thaw. Cover with a tea towel and let thaw and increase for 2 to 3 hours. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Melt the butter in a huge frying pan over medium-high heat.
- Include the onions and enable to prepare for a number of minutes. Include the sausage and cook till brown, falling apart the sausage as you stir.
- Include the Italian spices and red pepper flakes. Eliminate from the frying pan and permit to cool on a plate. In a different bowl, incorporate the ricotta, mozzarella, Parmesan, salt, some pepper, parsley and 2 eggs.
- When the sausage is cool, stir it into the cheese mix and reserved. When the rolls are defrosted and increased, roll them out on a gently floured surface area till paper thin.
- Spoon 3 to 4 tablespoons of the filling onto half of the dough circle. Fold half of the dough over itself, then push the edges to seal.  Brush the surface area of each calzone with the beaten egg, and after that bake till golden and good brown, 10 to 13 minutes.
- Serve with warm Marinara Sauce.
- Cook's Note: If you desire a bigger calzone, utilize frozen bread loaves and utilize one-quarter to one-third of the loaf for each calzone.
- Include a tablespoon approximately of olive oil into a hot pan over medium-high heat and include the garlic and sliced onions and offer them a stir.
- Now include the wine (or chicken broth), blending to deglaze all-time low of the frying pan. Prepare up until the liquid decreases by half.
- Include the crushed tomatoes and stir to incorporate. Include salt and pepper to taste and a pinch of sugar. Lower the heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Towards completion of the food preparation procedure, slice up your fresh parsley and basil and include it to the sauce to taste, stirring to incorporate.