Friday, January 13, 2012

Barbecue Chicken Calzones


I should seriously already be asleep right now because I'm anticipating getting up at 4:30 am, and not only that, but will be running about 12 miles. So why I'm not sleeping right not is surely some kind of masochism on my part, but I really wanted to post this a little early because Saturdays seem to be crazy days for me to post. I never get to post as early as I want to for whatever reason. Mostly cause my kids are usually anticipating waffles or some kind of yummy breakfast and so yeah, I'll just post this early.


I love how quick and easy this is and it only requires a few ingredients. One of which being your favorite barbecue sauce. If you don't have a favorite, then use mine. It's this. Famous Dave's Rich & Sassy BBQ Sauce. Yum!! This will take any recipe up to the next level. It is amazing!! Enjoy!

P.S. I bought this cute little calzone maker this week, so I'll have pictures demonstrating steps with and without it, but don't feel like you have to have one to make these. I just had to have an excuse to try mine out, but it's just as easy to make these without one.

Barbecue Chicken Calzones
     1 can (10 ounces) refrigerated pizza crust
     3/4 cup barbecue sauce
     1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons shredded mozzarella cheese
     1 chicken breast, cooked and shredded
     1/2 purple onion, chopped
     1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons shredded Romano cheese

Heat oven to 400 degrees F.


Unroll pizza dough on clean work surface. Pat out to 15-in x 11-in. rectangle; cut lengthwise in half, then cut each piece crosswise into thirds. Top dough rectangles with 1 tablespoons barbecue sauce.


Layer 1 tablespoon mozzarella, about 1/4 cup shredded chicken (really loosely packed), 1 1/2 tablespoons chopped onion, and 1 tablespoon Romano cheese.


Drizzle 1 tablespoon barbecue over filling and fold in half.


Seal edges with fork. If needed, dampen edges with water to make them stick together. Place on baking sheet sprayed with cooking spray.


Bake 15 minutes or until golden brown.

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A Food Snots original recipe.

Famous Dave's Barbecue Sauce photo from www.soap.com.

5 comments:

Sweat Is My Sanity said... Best Blogger Tips

OH that looks so easy. I'm making that while my parents are here. My family is SO tired of my same ol' same ol' cooking. Thanks Camber. :)

Unknown said... Best Blogger Tips

my favorite sauce is Famous Dave's sweet & zesty - so yummy! It was great to see you like their sauces too :) The recipe looks great, i'll add it to my growing list of ones to try.
Thanks & Happy cooking!

FoodSnots said... Best Blogger Tips

Well yeah!! They are amazing! How can you not love them, right ;)

Anonymous said... Best Blogger Tips

How many calzones does the recipe make? Thanks!

FoodSnots said... Best Blogger Tips

It's gonna make 4 to 6 calzones depending on how big you make them.