Italian Dishes – The Tasty Italian Stromboli

Today lets take a look at the famous Italian Recipe- Stromboli. The true differentiation between stromboli and calzone is that the former is rolled and the second is folded. There isn’t any difference in the ingredients. Both commonly contain cheese (usually mozzarella), meat, and/or vegetables. I advise varying the ingredients every time you make them. But stromboli customarily contains tomato sauce inside and calzone has sauce on the side for dipping.

Ingredients (serves 5):

* two tablespoons – extra virgin olive oil * 2 cloves – garlic, crushed * One – large onion, sliced * 1 – green pepper, chopped * One pound – button mushrooms, sliced * Four – mild Italian sausage, casing removed * 1 1/2 pounds – mozzarella cheese, grated

Preparation:

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

Pour the oil into a pan and warm up 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 lost their water and the mixture starts to brown. Cook the sausage in a different pan until it begins to brown, breaking up the meat into bits.

Preheat oven to four hundred degrees F. Take the dough apart into five separate but equivalent dough balls. Roll each ball flat on a lightly floured surface.

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

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

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

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