A real calzone is made with riccotta cheese right?

Question

not motzerella(sp) am i right? chefs please answer.

Answer 1

Yes if it is a traditional cheese calzone. My family prefers the Italian sausage with Peppers strips and provolone cheese, as a change of pace.

Answer 2

A calzone and a stromboli are very similar (traditionally), with the exception of ricotta cheese. A calzone (again, traditionally) contains some sort of meat and/or vegetables, ricotta, and NO MARINARA. If there is marinara sauce, it's served on the side.

A stromboli can contain basically anything, including ricotta. The big difference (once again, traditionally) is that a stromboli is essentially a folded-over pizza. In addition to the meat/veggies and whatever types of cheese, there's also sauce inside (although it's usually just a small amount; just enough to melt and "mingle" with the other ingredients.

But nowadays, you can bake anything you want inside a "pizza shell" and call it a calzone, or a stromboli, or anything else for that matter.

Answer 3

Calzone
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Calzone at La Festa, Amsterdam, The NetherlandsA calzone, sometimes referred to as a stuffed pizza, is an Italian turnover made of pizza dough and stuffed with cheese (usually mozzarella cheese and Ricotta, but some varieties contain Parmesan, Provolone, or Monterey Jack), meat, vegetables, etc. The dough is folded over, sealed on one edge, baked (or occasionally deep-fried), and often served with marinara sauce (a sauce similar to tomato sauce).

Roughly sandwich-sized calzones are often sold at Italian lunch counters or by street vendors because they are easy to eat while standing or walking. Sweet versions, usually smaller, cookie-sized, are a specialty in the Marche.

Calzones are similar to stromboli, but traditionally the two are distinct dishes, as stromboli usually contains only mozzarella cheese.

Calzones are a relative specialty in most Western countries, often served as a complement to pizza, a similar but much more common dish.

In Italian, the word has three syllables, but as the foodstuff became commonplace in America, many people rhyme it with the English word "zone".

This dish causes some amusing confusion for Central and South Americans where calzones are girls' underpants, in written Spanish slang.

Answer 4

YES! . . . and no!

Does a 'real' pizza have to be made with tomato sauce and mozzarella? No, a white pizza is made with Alfredo sauce. There are dessert pizzas made with chocolate and strawberry sauce.

I have not eaten one, but if you stuff a calzone with goat cheese, honey, apricots and raspberry sauce I'll bet it would be a winner. . . for dessert!

Answer 5

A calzone is just a "pocket sandwich". You can stuff it with anything you want. Consider it a pizza folded over ...put mazzarella, pepparoni, mushrooms, anything in it.

Answer 6

All the ones I have ever made or ate were made with riccotta cheese.

Answer 7

i worked in pizzerias for 18 years, have three books devoted to pizza and various recipes and have never heard of ricotta in calzone

however, I love it in lasagna

Answer 8

Sure it can. Sucks in my book because I don't like ricotta cheese.

Answer 9

Yup.