Presto Mini Calzones

Submitted by Dawn399

"Wonderful pizza flavored appetizer and snack. These can be quickly made using frozen bread dough or tubes of pizza dough. Open up a jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce to use for dipping these mini calzones and enjoy."

 

• Ready In: 50mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Yields: 24 mini calzones

ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup ricotta cheese
• 1⁄4 cup parmesan cheese
• 1 teaspoon italian seasoning
• 1 lb frozen bread dough (thawed) or 2 cans prepared pizza crust
• 1 1⁄2 ounces pepperoni slices (sliced in half, Use spicy for extra "kick")
• 2 tablespoons milk
• 1 cup spaghetti sauce or 1 cup pizza sauce

directions

1. Preheat oven to 375° F.
2. Spray 2 cookie sheets with cooking spray.
3. Mix Ricotta Cheese, Italian seasoning and Parmesan cheese together in a small bowl and set aside.
4. Roll out bread or pizza dough to@ 1/4 inch and cut into 2 1/2 rounds.
5. Fill rounds with a heaping teaspoon o f cheese mixture and top with a half slice of pepperoni.
6. Fold dough in half and seal with tines of a fork.
7. Place filled calzones on baking sheet, prick tops with fork to allow steam to escape and brush tops with milk.
8. Bake at 375 ° for 15-20 minutes until golden brown.
9. Heat Spaghetti sauce or pizza sauce in microwave and use for dipping calzones.