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Join Flavia as she shows you step-by-step how to make crispy fried calzones at home! This classic Italian street food is stuffed with gooey cheese and savory fillings, perfect for any occasion.

Whether you’re new to Italian cooking or a seasoned foodie, Flavia’s tips make this recipe easy to follow.
Transcript
00:00The Italian calzoni. These guys are going to be fried and full of goodies and boy
00:09if they pack a punch. Let's get on with it. Let's start by making a simple dough.
00:17This dough is pretty straightforward. Let's start by measuring 300 grams of
00:21flour, in my case caputo flour, W260-280 I believe. To that we add 4 grams of dry yeast.
00:32If your yeast is fresh, devil it. 200 grams of lukewarm water and 20 grams of
00:43extra virgin olive oil. 9 grams of salt and that's our cost. If you want you can
00:48knead it by hand like I do, alternatively just use the dough machine to do the
00:54work. This dough is pretty straightforward. 60% hydration, so very easy to handle, it
01:01won't stick to your fingers. Let's check for the gluten mash, making sure that the
01:11dough can be stretched, because I guarantee you that frying it is gonna push this
01:17dough to its limit.
01:48.
02:03This is amazing! Look at this bomb!
02:06.
02:11Now we're going to divide the dough in five panetti, little balls, of approximately 100
02:18grams each.
02:21With 100 grams each I'm going to have five calzoni out of this dough.
02:27You can have panetti of 60-70 grams, it's totally up to you, or you can make it bigger
02:33than I say always approximately, but in reality I'm pretty OCD, and in my case they're going
02:40to be exactly 105 grams each.
02:46Ok, let's close this panetti, in the same way we close the panetti for the pizza, when we
02:54do pizza napolitana or round pizza of any kind.
03:01Let's put them on an oiled tray, where they can proof for another hour and half or something
03:08like that.
03:12In other words, until they dabble, and then I'll see you there.
03:26Let's get our first panetto, we're going to squash it, and we're going to form a disc,
03:35just like you would do for a pizza, but in this case it's going to be clearly smaller, this
03:41is a little pizza, a pizzetta if you will.
03:56It's roughly 15-18 centimeters.
04:00Now, first goes the truffle sauce, directly in contact with the dough.
04:09What do we got here?
04:11Mortadella, the real mortadella, not the bologna or whatever it's called.
04:17This is the real deal, which serves two purposes here.
04:21It is our ingredient, yes, but it's also a shield.
04:25Just like a crepe would be a shield when you do your beef wellington, for example.
04:30Mortadella would prevent the steam and the water coming from the melted cheese, to blow
04:37a hole in our calzone, even though our dough, as we said, is frying proof.
04:46As for the mozzarella, get a dry mozzarella, shredded mozzarella, it would do just fine in
04:53here.
04:53We don't want to introduce too much water inside of the calzone, for obvious reasons.
05:00Let's fold it.
05:01Okay, now we fold it in half, like this, and we seal it.
05:07We seal it three times.
05:09This is the first pass.
05:11We press with our fingers, so that the two sides of the dough are literally joined.
05:16And now we fold the edge on itself, like this.
05:22Pay close attention to the two extremities of the calzone.
05:27They're always notoriously the nestiest, the ones that are always open, if you're doing
05:33another recipe, not mine.
05:35And finally, with a fork, we do the final pass.
05:38And this really makes this calzone oil tight.
06:11Will they stay intact?
06:13Let's find out.
06:15But before that, they have to proof for another hour, then we go in.
06:22Our calzoni are going to be fried, but you can also bake them if you prefer.
06:28Let's take a look.
06:30Let's take a look.
06:57I'm going to add the rice and the rice.
07:13I'm gonna add some oil and sugar.
07:15It should be a little bit too, but I'm not sure.
07:15I'm gonna mix it up.
07:16I almost know.
07:17I'm going to put some oil in it.
07:17I'm gonna add water.
07:17I'm going to mix it up.
07:21I'm gonna mix it up.
07:51I'm going to put it in a little bit, but I'm going to put it in a little bit.
08:19Calzoni finally all fried, and look how beautiful they are.
08:24Nice and golden, super crispy, musica per le mie orecchie, scotta, suoniamo il violino, proviamo
08:49suonare il violino.
09:17Piccolino cheese.
09:18This mortadella and truffle are perfectly balanced, they don't overpower one another, excellent.
09:28The bake is amazing, super crisp, I don't know if you captured my crunchy bites, it's unbelievable.
09:38Try and let me know in the comments how it turns out.
09:41I'm out.
09:43I'm out.
09:44I'm out.
09:44I'm out.
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