Calzone Filled with mushrooms, spinach and melted mozzarella - Jamie Oliver

Ingredients:

1 flour, for dusting

olive oil

500 g mixed mushrooms (such as girolles, shiitake, enoki and chestnut), cleaned and torn up

4 cloves garlic, peeled and finely sliced

4 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves picked

50 g butter

sea salt

freshly ground black pepper

200 ml 300 g spinach leaves, washed and spun dry

2 x 125 g good-quality mozzarella pieces, torn into pieces

Method

Calzone is a folded Italian pizza which, by the sheer nature of its shape, is far more portable than a normal pizza and looks a bit like a Cornish pasty. Although the flavourings can be the same as for pizza, Italians often fill their calzone with leftover veg from the night before, or with various things that need using up, mixed with lovely tomatoes and some melting mozzarella. Great served hot or cold.

First, make your quickest tomato sauce to the pan and stir. Cook for a few minutes, then add the spinach (in batches if you need to) and stir again. Simmer away the liquid until you're left with a thick, tasty mixture that's not too moist (otherwise it will burst through the dough when you're cooking the calzone).

Divide the mushroom and spinach mixture evenly between the four pizza bases and spread it out nicely. Top with pieces of mozzarella and season with salt and pepper. To make your calzone, carefully lift the far edge of the pizza dough and pull it over the top towards you – you basically need to fold it in half (imagine it looking like a big Cornish pasty!). Crimp the edges so none of the filling can spill out. Place the calzone side by side on a floured baking tray (use two if you need to), pizza stone or granite slab.

Cook for 10 to 15 minutes on the bottom of the preheated oven until the dough is puffed up and golden on top and the filling is hot.

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