Breakfast Calzones
These breakfast calzones are stuffed with the trifecta of breakfast foods: scrambled eggs, home fried potatoes, and cured meat (in this case, pancetta), and of course lots of gruyere cheese.
Ingredients
- 1 lb pizza dough
- 4 eggs, scrambled
- 3 large potatoes
- 1 small onion, diced
- 4 oz diced pancetta or 4-6 strips of bacon
- 6 oz gruyere cheese, sliced or grated
- olive oil
- seasonings for potatoes (paprika, chili powder are rosemary are some of my favorites)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400.
- Cook the bacon or pancetta. If using diced pancetta, cook over medium heat until crispy, 5-10 minutes. If using bacon, cook bacon on the stovetop or in the oven on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper until crispy, 10-20 minutes.
- While the pancetta or bacon cooks, wash and clean the potatoes. Pierce each potato a few times with a fork and then microwave until slightly softened but still firm, 6-8 minutes. Allow to cool.
- While the potatoes are cooling, heat a large skillet with a big drizzle of olive oil over medium heat. Add diced onions and start to fry. Dice potatoes into 1/2 inch cubes. (If you're not microwaving the potatoes first, dice them into 1/4 inch cubes.) Add the diced potatoes to the pan, season with lots of salt and spices of choice and fry until browned, 7-10 minutes. Move potatoes into a separate bowl and allow to cool.
- Over medium heat and in the same pan as the potatoes, scramble eggs until just barely set, 2-3 minutes.
- On a floured surface, divide pizza dough into two balls. Roll each ball out until thin but not breaking, approximately a ten inch circle. Place about 1/4 of the gruyere cheese on half of the dough circle, top with half the potatoes, half the scrambled eggs, half the pancetta or bacon, and then another 1/4 of the cheese. Fold the bare half of the pizza dough over the the mixture and crimp the edges to seal. Repeat with the other pizza dough circle.
- Lightly olive oil and sheet pan. Using a spatula, transfer the uncooked calzones to the sheet pan. Brush with some more olive oil. Bake for 20-25 minutes, until dough is cooked through and golden brown.