Calzone is a popular type of pizza that is stuffed, folded in half and baked. These mushroom cheese calzone is stuffed with sauted onions, garlic, mushrooms and cheese which is baked until top is crispy and centre is gooey.
Mushroom Cheese Calzone Recipe
Pizza, Calzones = Kids favourite, not only kids even adults go crazy. Making it at home is super easy and affordable than you think. I have shared pepper cheese calzone.
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The first stage of making pizza or calzone is forming the crust. You can use some of my favourite pizza crust recipes on my blog like my basic pizza dough, yeast free pizza dough or whole wheat pizza dough.
About Mushroom Calzone (Whole Wheat)
Calzones are just like pizza but folded like half moon. It is traditionally stuffed with any filling of choice along with pizza sauce, cheese and baked. Some of the most popular flavours are mushroom, cheese, peppers, tomato, chicken or vegetables.
This time I made mushroom calzone. Some people use raw mushroom in this, but I like to cook the mushrooms before hand and use it. I made a flavourful mixture by sauteing mushrooms, onions, garlic in olive oil and then adding spices like oregano, parsley and chilli flakes. It was yummy.
I just used the mushroom filling alone. But you can go further and top with raw sliced bell peppers, onion slices, olives and tomatoes for more filling and tasty toppings. If you are not a fan of mushrooms you can add paneer or chicken instead of mushrooms or check out the other pizza which i have on my blog.
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Ingredients
- Pizza Dough – You can use some of my favourite pizza crust recipes on my blog like my basic pizza dough, yeast free pizza dough or whole wheat pizza dough.
- Olive Oil – use good quality olive oil for sauteing onions and mushrooms.
- Onions – sliced onions, shallots or chopped green onions can be used in the filling.
- Garlic – garlic adds so much flavour to the calzone filling, moreover garlic and mushrooms are match made in heaven.
- Mushrooms – I used button mushrooms for making calzone.
- Dried Herbs – oregano, red chilli flakes, parsley are the dried herbs used in filling.
- Pizza sauce – good quality pizza or pasta sauce is added to mushrooms to make it saucy.
- Cheese – grated mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese is used.
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Calzone dough (Pizza dough)
1)Start by making whole wheat pizza dough. This dough is wonderful, it is soft and makes perfect pizza or calzone.
Calzone filling
2)Now lets make the filling. Chop onions finely and slice mushrooms thinly.
3)Heat oil in a pan. Add in garlic and saute for a minute. Now add in chopped onions and sliced mushrooms.
4)Saute them together on high heat. The mushroom will leave out some of their water. Let it get dried up.
5)Now the mushrooms is well sauted. It will shrink in volume.
6)Season with salt. You have to add salt after the mushroom is sauted.
7)Sprinkle some dried oregano, dried parsley and dry red chilli flakes. You can add of your favorite herbs like Italian seasoning. Saute for a minute.
8)Add in tomato ketchup or pizza sauce.
9)mix it well. This is your mushroom filling for calzones.
Shaping calzone
10)Punch out the excess air from the whole wheat pizza dough.
11)Divide it into equal portions. Depending on the size of the calzones you are making, you can divide the dough.
12)Take a portion of dough, flatten it lightly like this. Spoon mushroom filling on one half of the dough.
13)top with shredded mozzarella cheese.
14)Fold it over. Press to seal the edges.
15)Now you can make pleats like this. Or just use a fork to seal the edges.
16)calzones are well sealed.
17)I make few slashes on top of the calzone so the steam can escape through these gaps.
Baking Calzones
18)Place the calzones on a baking tray lined with foil or parchment paper. if it is foil, grease it well with oil. Allow it to rise for 15 minutes.
19)Brush top with some oil or melted butter.
20)Bake in a preheated oven. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
21)Serve warm.
Expert Tips
Pizza Dough – You can use some of my favourite pizza crust recipes on my blog like my basic pizza dough, yeast free pizza dough or whole wheat pizza dough.
Variation – you can add peppers, vegetables, chicken into the filling as needed. Pasta sauce can be used instead of pizza sauce.
Meal prep – filling and dough can be a day in advance and stored in fridge.
Storage – cooked calzone can stay fresh for a week in fridge, reheat in oven for 5 minutes before serving. It can be frozen upto 3 months.
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Mushroom Cheese Calzone Recipe (Whole Wheat)
Calzone is a popular type of pizza that is stuffed, folded in half and baked. These mushroom cheese calzone is stuffed with sauted onions, garlic, mushrooms and cheese which is baked until top is crispy and centre is gooey.
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Pizza dough – Mix yeast and sugar in warm water. set aside for 5 mins. Take flour, salt and olive oil in a bowl. Add in the yeast water and make it into a soft dough. Cover and let the dough rise for 1 to 2 hours till it is doubled in size.
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Make Mushroom Filling – Heat oil in a pan, add in garlic, onions and mushrooms and saute for 5 mins or so till cooked. Add in oregano, salt, chilli flakes and parsley and mix well. Now add in pizza sauce into the mushrooms and combine well. Set aside to cool.
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Assembling calzone – Take the pizza dough, degas the dough. Divide the dough into 12 equal portions. Take one portion of dough, flatten it into a round. Now spoon some mushroom filling, top with ¼ cup of cheese and fold the calzone. Seal the edges, crimp it so it is well sealed. Make few slashes on top of calzone for the steam to escape.
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Proofing calzone – Arrange the calzone on a parchment lined baking tray or greased foil tray. Let it rest and rise for 10 to 15 minutes.
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Preheat oven – Preheat oven to 250 degree C. Set oven to heat with bottom rod only. So the bottom gets crispy when baked.
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Baking Calzone – Now brush some butter or oil over the top of calzone. Place it into the middle rack of oven and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. Last 2 minutes, turn the oven to grill mode and bake for 2 minutes until top is golden in colour. Remove from oven, allow to cool for 5 minutes. Serve hot.
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* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
