Easy Recipe For A Delicious Pepperoni & Cheese Calzone

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My husband was a pastry chef for many years and was an incredible cook, so he did most of the cooking when the kids were younger. Any time there was a family get together, everyone always asked if he would make pepperoni and cheese calzones. Of course, he used to make his own dough, but that is above my culinary skills, so I use pre-made dough 🙂 It is just as yummy and you can easily make these for a quick week night meal as well.

Pepperoni And Cheese Calzone

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Ingredients

2 lbs of pizza dough
Sliced Pepperoni
Shredded Mozzarella Cheese
Melted Butter
Flour

Instructions

Start by rolling out the dough on a floured surface. Add flour to the rolling pin as well. You want to roll the dough in a rectangle shape about a foot long. This is the pepperoni I used, but you can also use large deli sliced pepperoni.

Now you want to add your toppings in the middle of the calzone. We are very boring and don’t even add sauce. We load it with pepperoni and shredded mozzarella cheese and that is it. But I have made other calzones with chicken parmesan, meatball, sausage and peppers, etc. Add your favorite toppings and you are good to go.

The next part is key, otherwise the dough will open up while cooking. Fold each end of the dough up first, then fold one side of the dough over and pinch the dough so it’s closed. You can use a little water too. When we made these at my Sister’s house recently we didn’t close it enough, but they still tasted really good!