Buffalo Chicken Calzone
Serves 10
Ingredients
- 12 oz bag pizza dough
- ½ cup hot sauce (for dough)
- 5 slices blue Colby Jack cheese (provolone or cheddar cheese)
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 2 cups hot sauce (for marinating chicken)
- ½ cup crumbled blue cheese (gorgonzola works well too)
- ¾ cup blue cheese dressing
- 1 egg, beaten lightly (egg wash)
- 2 tbsp Parmesan cheese, grated
How-to
Marinate Chicken
- Place chicken breasts in a plastic bag with 2 cups of hot sauce. Toss to coat chicken
- Refrigerate and marinate for 8-10 hours or overnight
Bake Chicken
- Preheat oven to 400º
- After marinating 8-10 hours or overnight, place the chicken breasts with the marinade from the plastic bag into a baking dish, and bake uncovered 40 minutes for thick chicken breasts or if chicken breasts are thin, cover with foil for last 15 minutes of baking
- Remove from oven (leave oven on) and let chicken cool
- Once cool enough to handle, slice chicken on the bias, about ¹⁄₈" thick
Roll Dough, Add Fillings & Bake Calzone
- Roll out each pizza dough ball to a 12" x 16" rectangle
- Brush one half (lengthwise) of the dough with ½ cup hot sauce, leaving a ½" margin on the top and bottom of the dough
- Lay out sliced cheese atop the hot sauce-brushed side of dough
- Layer with sliced chicken to cover the cheese and sprinkle with crumbled blue cheese
- Top with blue cheese dressing
- Fold ends of dough up, then the unfilled half of the length over the filling
- Place on a foil-lined baking sheet and brush with egg wash
- Sprinkle top of dough with Parmesan and drizzle with some hot sauce
- Bake at 400º for about 30 minutes
- Let cool for 5 minutes before slicing and serving and serve with additional blue cheese dressing for dipping
Note - Why not make 2 calzones and freeze 1? That way you'll always have extra for surprise guests or an overtime game!