If you love cheese then you must try this recipe!! It features a crust made of primarily cheese and filled with more cheese and pepperoni. It is just like a traditional calzone but wayyyyy less carbs and actually less calories too. It is so good and if you are watching your carb & sugar intake you will be crying tears of joy at how delicious and realistic tasting this is! I can’t take full credit for this idea because I found this recipe that I had written down on a card a long time ago while searching through my recipe box. So I actually have no clue who had the original idea for this but here is my spin on it. Enjoy ?
Ingredients:
2 cups baby spinach
1 tablespoon minced garlic
1 & 3/4 cups 2% mozzarella cheese
1 large egg
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons almond flour
3 tablespoons coconut flour
1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
1 teaspoon garlic powder (not pictured)
18 turkey pepperoni
marinara sauce (optional but amazing to dip calzone in!!)
Preheat oven to 400.
Cook spinach and minced garlic in skillet sprayed with a little nonstick spray. You want it to be quite dry. Set aside after cooking.
Melt butter in small bowl in microwave. Set aside.
In another larger bowl mix 1 & 1/4 cup mozzarella with Italian seasoning and garlic powder. Set microwave to 30% power and microwave cheese & seasoning for 2 minutes.
Mix in flours, butter, & egg then microwave on high for 10 seconds. Continue to mix and microwave for 10 seconds at a time until the mixture looks more dough like and incorporated.
Be patient bc it will look really bad at first but I promise it will melt together into a big delicious cheeses dough ball like below?
Line counter with parchment paper or wax paper. I always tape mine down so it doesn’t move. Separate dough into 3 equal size balls using you hand to roll into balls.
Roll each ball ball out as thin as possible. It’s ok if they aren’t all perfect and even. It is rustic and still delicious!!
Top each with 1/3 spinach mixture, then equally divide the remaining 1/2 cup of mozzarella cheese, & add 6 pepperoni to each.
Fold over and press each one along edges to seal it.
Bake on cookie sheet for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown and firm feeling.
You can serve with some tomato sauce to dip in. So good!!!
Makes 3 calzones
Per calzone:
503 calories
36.7 grams fat
11 grams carbs
5 grams fiber
6 net carbs
30.3 grams protein
***Just so you have a reference a traditional pepperoni calzone has anywhere from 700+ calories and 80+ carbs so this is a much better swap and a lot more nutritious too ?
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