Perfect stuffed bread for all your family and party needs.
These stuffed bread are filled with our favorites, sauteed sausage, peppers, mushrooms, and pepperoni.
You can tailor these to your family's favorite pizza toppings and use what you like to fill these with. I will give you a list of suggestions below.
The cheese oozing out of these is the best part of a stromboli or calzone.
Are Strombolis and Calzones the same?
One is quite different in filling than the other.
For instance, calzones are ricotta-filled and essentially a pizza that is folded in half like a half-moon, and can be also stuffed with meats like ham or even spinach.
Stromboli is an entirely different shape than a calzone—they're more of a tube/cylinder and contain several layers of cheese, meats, and can have several vegetables in it.
Our family is not only a fan of stromboli and calzones we are also huge pizza fans here and make our own Homemade Pizza Dough along with Italian Stromboli, Panzerotti which is fried dough stuffed and Italian Fried Pizza Dough aka Pizza Fritta and of course Mom's Sausage Roll.
In Italy, a calzone is filled pretty much the same but often fried not baked, and called Panzerotti fritti.
Regardless of the shapes and filling both the Stromboli and Calzones are stuffed pizza dough.
For me, the more cheese the happier I am! The meat enhances the flavors from the oils it secretes.
Stuffed Pizza Dough
This pizza dough has so many possibilities of what you can stuff it with.
Just pick your favorite pizza toppings and put them inside this delicious rolled dough and you have an all-in-one fantastic meal!
We mix and match even leftovers and make a whole other meal out of them just by adding them to the pizza dough and it's so easy to make just starting out with store-bought or homemade pizza dough.
Ingredients For Sausage Pepperoni Peppers Mushroom Stromboli
- pepper sliced into thin strips
- mushrooms
- sausage loose cooked
- pepperoni
- minced garlic
- mozzarella cheese
- provolone cheese
- olive oil
- grated cheese
- black pepper to taste
- pizza dough
- Optional: sliced black olives, sliced onion, red pepper flakes
- see recipe card for options
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Stromboli
Calzone Lovers!
What is a New York calzone? New York calzone is a delicious Homemade New York-style dough filled with ricotta cheese, tomato marinara sauce, Italian sausage, ham or salami, and sometimes raw or sauteed spinach with lots of cheese like Pecorino Romano or Parmesan cheese. The calzones are baked until golden brown; serve warm for a delicious dinner and sometimes served with a side of marinara sauce for dipping.
My Favorite Cheese Calzone:
1 pound Homemade pizza dough
1 cup fresh ricotta
1 cup grated mozzarella
(4 ounces) 1/4 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese
1 bunch spinach, thick stems removed and roughly chopped
black pepper to taste salt and granulated garlic powder
1/4 pound thinly sliced ham pepperoni or salami 2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup marinara sauce, warmed
Mix the cheeses with the spinach in a bowl. Roll out the dough, fill it and layer the top with the meat you like. Fold over like a turnover. Bake at 400 degrees until browned and the bottom is crispy.
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Easy Stromboli
If you're looking for the easiest stromboli, no problem, pizza dough, a filling you love which could be any pizza toppings, fill, roll and bake.
There is really nothing to it just remember to keep the seam side down when baking so it won't open up and spill all the filling out and you can seal the whole things with a little egg wash.
Simple, delicious stuffed pizza dough awaits you!
Sausage Pepperoni Peppers Mushroom Stromboli and Calzones
Prep time: 20 MinCook time: 25 MinTotal time: 45 Min
Are calzone and stromboli the same? Find out here and the recipes. for both styles of stuffed pizza dough.
Ingredients
- Stromboli:
- Make your own dough or use store-boughtclick here for my recipe
- 1 pound of dough for each stromboli
- Filling (Double for two strombolis):
- 1 pepper sliced into thin strips
- 1 8oz package mushrooms
- 1 pound sausage loose cooked
- 8 slices of pepperoni
- 1 or 2 cloves minced garlic
- 8 slices mozzarella cheese
- 4 slices provolone cheese
- olive oil
- 1/2 cup Pecorino Romano grated cheese
- black pepper to taste
- Optional: sliced black olives, sliced onions,red pepper flakes
- Calzone
- 1 pound Homemade pizza dough
- 1 cup fresh ricotta
- 1 cup grated mozzarella
- (4 ounces) 1/4 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese
- 1 bunch spinach, thick stems removed and roughly chopped
- black pepper to taste salt and granulated garlic powder
- 1/4 pound thinly sliced ham pepperoni or salami 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 cup marinara sauce, warmed
Instructions
- Stromboli Directions:
- Saute the sausage in 2 tablespoons olive oil until the pink is gone. Add the peppers and garlic cook 1 more minute. Drain oil.
- Roll out the first dough to 1/4 inch thick but not too thin so your filling doesn't seep through.
- Add half the cheese on the bottom, sausage filling and then pepperoni and more cheese on top.
- Roll like a jelly roll tucking in the sides and place seam side down on an oil sprayed baking sheet.
- Drizzle the dough with olive oil.
- Sprinkle tops of dough with grated cheese, garlic minced, and freshly ground pepper.
- Bake in a hot oven of 400 degrees until browned on top.
- Optional filling ingredients: chopped onions, chopped olives, hot peppers, crushed meatballs, ham and pineapple, shrimp, scallops, thinly shaved eggplant, fresh spinach, tuna, chopped tomatoes, sliced zucchini, chopped broccoli, shredded cheddar. broccoli rabe
- Use the combinations of vegetables and meat you like together for the filling. Basically, meats, vegetables, and cheeses hold it together.
- Calzone Directions:
- Mix the cheeses with the spinach in a bowl.
- Roll out the dough shaped into rounds, fill it and layer the top with the meat you like.
- Fold over like turnover crimp edges with a fork.
- Place them on an oil sprayed baking sheet.
- Bake at 400 degrees until browned and the bottom is crispy. and golden browned around 25 to 45 minutes depending on you crispy you want them.
Notes:
Tips
- use fresh fruits
- any pie filling can be used with this recipe when in a hurry just no need to bake first
- always use cold butter
- substituted rum extract or vanilla for alcohol
- serve with whipped cream or ice cream
- the best fruits to use are apples, pears, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, and peaches
- store leftovers in the refrigerator and reheat in the microwave for 10 seconds
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Don't Forget To Try My Favorite Pizza Dough Recipe!
Pizza Fritta
Copycat O'scugnizzo Pizza
