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Recipe Quick Sausage and Bell Pepper Calzones (Main Dish)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 1 (11.3 ounce) can refrigerated dinner rolls, at room temperature
- Cornmeal for rolling
- 1 pound spicy Italian sausage, removed from its casing
- Olive oil, for sauteing, if necessary
- 1 medium onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 large yellow bell pepper, cored and seeded, cut into small dice
- 1/2 large red bell pepper, cored and seeded, cut into small dice
- 2 large garlic cloves, minced
- 1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh parsley (optional)
- Olive oil, for brushing
- Your favorite marinara-style pasta sauce
Preparing/Cooking:
- Separate rolls onto a cornmeal-sprinkled work surface.
- Cover with plastic wrap and let rest while preparing filling.
- Fry sausage in a 12-inch skillet, breaking it up into small bits with a spoon, until it loses its raw color, about 5 minutes.
- Depending on the amount of fat in the pan, drain or add oil to equal about 2 Tbs.
- Add onion and peppers; saute until tender, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in garlic.
- Transfer to a bowl.
- Cool to room temperature; stir in cheeses and optional parsley.
- Adjust oven rack to center position and heat oven to 450 degrees.
- Sprinkling with cornmeal as necessary, roll out each roll into a 7-inch circle.
- Spoon a scant 1/2 cup of filling just below the center line, leaving a 1-inch border along the bottom half of the dough circle.
- Spoon filling just below the center line of the circle of dough, leaving a border along the bottom half of the circle.
- With wet fingertips, moisten the bottom border.
- Fold dough over filling and press edges together.
- Thoroughly seal by using fingertips to crimp and flute the edges or by pressing with the tines of a fork.
- Place on a large cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- (At this point, can be frozen up to 2 weeks.
- )Brush tops with oil.
- Bake until golden brown, about 16 minutes (longer if frozen).
- Let cool slightly and serve with warm marinara sauce.
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