Tuscan Pizza Calzones

Total time: 1 hour, 15 min.

5 tbsp. Olive oil (plus more for brushing)
2 1/2 medium green peppers, julienne
2 1/2 medium red pepper, julienne
2 small yellow onions, julienne
1/4 cup fresh basil, roughly chopped
1/4 cup fresh parsley, roughly chopped
2 1/2tsp italion seasoning
salt and pepper, to taste
3 (13oz rolls) pizza crust dough
as needed all purpose flour
1 1/4 cups pizza sauce (plus more for dipping)
2 1/2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded
8 oz. sliced pepperoni
As needed cooking spray
fresh parsley for garnish
grated parmesan cheese for garnish

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees
2. Heat oil in a medium saute pan over medium-high heat. Add peppers and onions, and cook, stirring frequently, 3-4 minutes
3. Stir in basil, parsley, italian seasoning and salt and pepper to taste; remove from heat and let cool.
4. Divide dough into five equal size pieces, and roll each into a ball.
5. Roll one pizza dough ball into a 10" circle, dusting with flour as necessary to prevent sticking. Spread 1/4 cup of pizza sauce onto center of dough, leaving a 1" border.
6. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of cheese over pizza sauce.
7. Place about 10 slices of pepperoni over cheese and top with 1/5 of the pepper-onion mixture.
8. Sprinkle 1/4 cup of cheese over pepper-onion mix and place 10 more slices of pepperoni over cheese.
9. Lightly wett entire border of pizza dough with water and fold over to form a half moon. Crimp edges of pizza dough with fork.
10. Spray a baking sheet with olive oil.
11. Repeat with remaining dough and fillings.
12. Bake calzones approximately 40 min or until the outsides are lightly browned.
13. Remove from oven; sprinkle top of each calzone with parsley and parmesan cheese, if desired and let cool for 5-10 min. Cut each calzone in half and serve with pizza sauch for dipping.
Makes approx 8-10 servings

Jul's note

I was only making this for 3 people so I significantly reduced the size of the recipe. I only used one pizza dough, cut it into 1/4 and went from there. Because they were smaller and thinner crust they only took about 25 minutes to cook.

It was SO yummy!