This is for the Ground Meats! Throwdown
I wanted to make something different, not Smashburgers, not Meatloaf, not the same old Stuffed Red Pepper recipe. And somehow I wanted to get Sourdough mixed in there also. After a bit of wondering "could this possibly work?" I came upon the idea of putting Stuffed Red Peppers inside a Calzone. It's an experiment that might turn out well if it comes together okay, so what the heck? If not, no harm no foul and dinner might turn out to be a bit messy. I'll give it a go.
So, I present to you my experiment with Stuffed Red Peppers Sourdough Calzone.
I used a new recipe (to me) from the Little Spoon Farm website for Sourdough Pizza Dough, which I started two days ago. After an overnight ferment, a good number of stretch and folds and a day in the fridge it was proofed once more this morning -
In the meantime, I made a quick Tomato Sauce -
My usual Stuffed Red Peppers recipe starts with a mix of ground meat with diced onion, formed into burgers. Today I'm using Ground Turkey and Ground Beef, seasoned with Emeril's Burger Seasoning and dusted with one of the Oakridge rubs. Burgers ready for the grill -
With the burgers on the Goldens' are some sweet Italian Sausage -
After those were done and since the red peppers will be inside the Calzone, I wanted to make sure they're cooked a bit beforehand. I switched the Goldens' from direct to indirect by adding the searing plate, stacked my double layer of grates and added the Lodge CI Pizza Pan -
The pizza dough has risen nicely -
and cut into two pieces -
For the Red Pepper filling, mix up some of the Burgers, Diced Sausage, add Mozzarella, Worcestershire and Tomato Sauce -
This is definitely an experiment in preparation. I cut a Red Pepper cross-wise into thirds, stuffed each with filling and topped them with Mozzarella and Tomato Sauce -
Fold it, leaving the Peppers exposed (thanks to a recent Gozney video for the idea) -
And out onto the Goldens' it goes -
With the second dough ball, my wife made a more traditional Calzone, adding Pepperoni, to be baked in the oven -
It was getting dark and starting to rain, but it's looking good after about 55 minutes and ready to come off the grill -
I gave it a few extra minutes in the oven to help crisp up the crust, letting it rest -
Let's slice in and see how it looks! -
Plated pics -
This was most definitely a successful experiment! The marriage of a Stuffed Red Pepper and a Calzone with Sourdough turned out to be a great dinner.
There are leftovers and the second Calzone for lunch and dinner over the next day or so.
I didn't get finished pics of the Mrs Calzone, but it looks superb as always. She's usually in charge of calzones when we make them but she let me play along this time, just to be nice. :mrgreen:
Thanks for following along with what was somewhat of a crazy idea, but sometimes crazy ideas turn out well.
One of these pics will get selected as a throwdown entry.
Regards,
-lunchman
I wanted to make something different, not Smashburgers, not Meatloaf, not the same old Stuffed Red Pepper recipe. And somehow I wanted to get Sourdough mixed in there also. After a bit of wondering "could this possibly work?" I came upon the idea of putting Stuffed Red Peppers inside a Calzone. It's an experiment that might turn out well if it comes together okay, so what the heck? If not, no harm no foul and dinner might turn out to be a bit messy. I'll give it a go.
So, I present to you my experiment with Stuffed Red Peppers Sourdough Calzone.
I used a new recipe (to me) from the Little Spoon Farm website for Sourdough Pizza Dough, which I started two days ago. After an overnight ferment, a good number of stretch and folds and a day in the fridge it was proofed once more this morning -
In the meantime, I made a quick Tomato Sauce -
My usual Stuffed Red Peppers recipe starts with a mix of ground meat with diced onion, formed into burgers. Today I'm using Ground Turkey and Ground Beef, seasoned with Emeril's Burger Seasoning and dusted with one of the Oakridge rubs. Burgers ready for the grill -
With the burgers on the Goldens' are some sweet Italian Sausage -
After those were done and since the red peppers will be inside the Calzone, I wanted to make sure they're cooked a bit beforehand. I switched the Goldens' from direct to indirect by adding the searing plate, stacked my double layer of grates and added the Lodge CI Pizza Pan -
The pizza dough has risen nicely -
and cut into two pieces -
For the Red Pepper filling, mix up some of the Burgers, Diced Sausage, add Mozzarella, Worcestershire and Tomato Sauce -
This is definitely an experiment in preparation. I cut a Red Pepper cross-wise into thirds, stuffed each with filling and topped them with Mozzarella and Tomato Sauce -
Fold it, leaving the Peppers exposed (thanks to a recent Gozney video for the idea) -
And out onto the Goldens' it goes -
With the second dough ball, my wife made a more traditional Calzone, adding Pepperoni, to be baked in the oven -
It was getting dark and starting to rain, but it's looking good after about 55 minutes and ready to come off the grill -
I gave it a few extra minutes in the oven to help crisp up the crust, letting it rest -
Let's slice in and see how it looks! -
Plated pics -
This was most definitely a successful experiment! The marriage of a Stuffed Red Pepper and a Calzone with Sourdough turned out to be a great dinner.
There are leftovers and the second Calzone for lunch and dinner over the next day or so.
I didn't get finished pics of the Mrs Calzone, but it looks superb as always. She's usually in charge of calzones when we make them but she let me play along this time, just to be nice. :mrgreen:
Thanks for following along with what was somewhat of a crazy idea, but sometimes crazy ideas turn out well.
One of these pics will get selected as a throwdown entry.
Regards,
-lunchman
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