Italian Recipes – The Wonderful Italian Stromboli

Today we will take a look at the popular Italian Recipe- Stromboli. The actual dissimilarity between stromboli and calzone is that the former is rolled whereas the second is folded. There’s not much of a difference in the cooking elements. Both generally contain cheese (usually mozzarella), meat, and/or vegetables. I advise changing the ingredients every time you prepare them. But stromboli generally includes tomato sauce inside and calzone has sauce on the side for dipping.

Ingredients (serves 5):

* two tablespoons – extra virgin olive oil * Two cloves – garlic, minced * One – large onion, diced * One – green pepper, diced * One pound – button mushrooms, diced * 4 – mild Italian sausage, casing removed * 1 1/2 pounds – mozzarella cheese, grated

Preparation:

Make the calzone dough similar to the method you prepare the stomboli dough. And make the tomato sauce the very same method the stomboli tomato sauce is made.

Place the oil into a pan and heat over medium flame and add the garlic. Cook for one minute and then add the onion, green pepper, and mushrooms.

Saute until the mushrooms have shed their water and the mixture starts to brown. Cook the sausage in a separate pan until it proceeds to brown, breaking up the meat into bits.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Pinch the dough apart into five separate but equal dough balls. Roll every ball flat on a lightly floured surface.

Cover every piece of dough with a layer of mozzarella cheese, followed by the sausage and vegetables and divide them evenly.

Wrap again with the rest of the mozzarella cheese and fold each dough sheet over, sealing the ends.

Using a spatula, move the calzones to two lightly oiled baking sheets. Place both pans in the oven, one on the lower rack and the other on the higher rack. Cook for 15 minutes and then reverse the baking sheets and cook for an further fifteen minutes. Serve up with the tomato sauce on the top or on the side for dipping.

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