what is Cal Zone?

Question

I read this as one of the food items in a supposedly Italian Pizza joint. Few of the items offered in the menu are Roast Beef Cal Zone... Roast Chicken Cal zone....moked turkey cal zone..and so on. How do they differ from a Pizza? What ingredients go into it?

Answer 1

A 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 a locally substituted cheese), meat, vegetables, et cetera. The dough is folded over, sealed on one edge, baked (or occasionally deep-fried), and often served with marinara sauce (a sauce based on tomatoes and basil) or bolognese sauce (a meat sauce).

Pronounced in Italian, the word has three syllables, and it is correctly pronounced kahl-zone-nay, but as the foodstuff became commonplace in America, many people ignored the Italian pronunciation rhyming it with the English word "zone" and pronouncing it as cal-zone. This dish causes some amusing confusion for Central and South Americans where calzones are girls' underpants, in written Spanish slang.

Calzones are similar to stromboli, but traditionally the two are distinct dishes, as stromboli usually contains mozzarella cheese (no substitutes) and tends to have marinara sauce.

And a Recipe

Ingredients

butter (room temperature) 50 gm
milk 75 ml
water 75 ml
dried yeast 2 tsp
castor sugar 30 gm
egg 1 pc
strong white bread flour 250 gm
tomato puree 75 ml
garlic cloves (crushed) 2 pc
grated mozzarella 100 gm
small onion (sliced) 1 pc
chorizo sausage (thinly sliced) ½ pc
salami (thin strips) 25 gm
stuffed olives (chopped) 6 pc
sun-dried tomatoes (chopped) 3 pc
anchovy fillets (rinsed) 3 pc

Method

Pizza dough
1. Melt the butter in the water and milk to blood temperature (37ºC); this is when the milk feels neither cold or warm to the touch
2. Add in yeast and stir until dissolved, add the sugar and egg and mix well
3. Add enough flour to form a soft, slack dough (until it just stops becoming sticky)
4. Knead for 5 - 10 minutes and place in a warm spot until it doubles in size
5. Knock out the air by punching the dough and re-prove to double its size
6. Break into small even pieces and roll dough into 15cm circles (or one large one)
To make the calzone
1. Crush the garlic and mix with the tomato purée (add or reduce amounts to suit taste)
2. Spread over each dough circle to within 2 cm of edge
3. Place a small amount of the filling onto one half of dough
4. Brush edges with water, fold dough in half and seal edges by pinching and rolling over
To cook
1. Place on a lightly oiled tray, allowing room for dough to rise (cover lightly with tin foil)
2. Place in oven at 180°C for approx. 10 minutes
3. Remove from oven and brush with eggwash and place back in the oven until golden brown
4. Brush with eggwash again if preferred

Answer 2

Calzone is essentially a pizza that has been folded in half, then cooked. A bit like an italian version of cornish pasty. The pizza topping becomes the filling, and goes all lovely and gooey. Yum!

Answer 3

Calzone basics are Mozzarella, Fetta, meats and herbs (no sauce) on a pizza dough, folded in half and baked.

Many meat and vegetable options (just selections from the pizza-toppings menu) make it a profitable menu item...and the lack of tomato sauce make it an obvious choice for diners with acid-sensitive stomaches.

Answer 4

We go to a Frankie and Bennys restaurant and they do a bolognase cal zone, which is a pizza base with bolognese sauce, mushrooms, think it had bacon or pepperomi (usual spag bol ingredients) and it is folded in half, very yummy, so i supose you could have anything in them like a pizza and it is folded in half like a turnover or pasty type thing.

Answer 5

Calzone is like a pizza but instead of flat it's folded over the filling and the edges sealed, similar to a pasty but using pizza dough instead of pastry.

Answer 6

I know it as one word: calzone; it's like a folded-over pizza, a bit like a Cornish pasty but flatter, made of normal pizza dough with usually cheese + other ingredients in the filling, served hot, so you need to beware of burning yourself!

Answer 7

cal·zo·ne /kælˈzoʊneɪ, -ni, -ˈzoʊn; It. kɑlˈzɔnɛ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kal-zoh-ney, -nee, -zohn; It. kahl-zaw-ne] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun Italian Cookery. a turnover made of pizza dough, usually containing cheese, prosciutto, and herbs or garlic and either baked or fried.


I guess It's generally a "pizza turnover". What's inside can vary.

Answer 8

In the superstore, fruits are usually picked out far too soon. Some are rocks, many are wrong. Some of the fruit and vegetables are typical right (zucchini, onions, garlic, lettuce, greens, and a few others) so I'd have to go with vegetables.

Answer 9

hi it is a pizza that once is made they fold in half and cook , they are very nice , i go to a pizza restaurant in peterborough they make them cant bet them

Answer 10

loads of calories zone !!!