Grilled Parmesan Beer Chicken Calzones
Jackie Dodd-Mallory
(Senior Editor)
Grilled Parmesan Beer Chicken Calzones. Your new favorite grill recipe.
Sure, you can grill meat. You can throw hot dogs on the grill, and a couple burgers. You can have yourself a hot meat party and invite your friends over.
Meat just scratches the grilled-food surface. It’s the obvious choice, the blended margarita on taco Tuesday, the teddy bear holding a heart on Valentines day. Other foods needs a sharp heat and a quick char. Have you grilled fruit yet? Or salad? Ice cream?! Maybe that’s too far. Let’s start with pizza, and pizza like hand held beer and cheese filled pies. Grilled pizza, as well as adjacent pizza like items, are my favorite ways to indulge in fire seared foods.
Plus, beer is essential when you stand near an open flame and cook your dinner. It’s not even up for negotiations.
Grilled Parmesan Beer Chicken Calzones
Ingredients
- 1 can 14.5 wt oz diced tomatoes
- 6 wt oz tomato paste
- 1/3 cup wheat beer
- ½ tsp garlic powder
- ¼ tsp smoked paprika
- ½ tsp dried basil
- 2 lbs raw pizza dough enough for two large pizzas
- 8 wt oz chicken cooked and chopped
- 4 wt oz parmesan cheese fresh grated
- 4 wt ounces mozzarella grated
- oil for grill
Instructions
- Preheat grill to medium high.
- In a blender add the diced tomatoes, tomato paste, beer, garlic powder, smoked paprika, and basil. Blend until smooth.
- Cut the dough into 12 equal sized pieces.
- One at a time doll the dough balls into flat 6 inch circles.
- Add 2 to 3 tablespoons sauce in the center, top with chicken, about 1 tablespoon each of mozzarella and parmesan.
- Fold the dough over into a crescent shape, rolling and pinching the edges to seal.
- Brush each side with olive oil.
- Place the calzones on the hot grill, close lid. Grill on each side until strong grill marks appear, about 4 minutes per side. ‘
My favorite pizza dough recipe: Beer Pizza Dough
My favorite quick dough recipe: One Hour Rosemary Beer Pizza Dough
Comments
Kahleen March 11, 2015 um 6:22 am
Sounds delicious! Would love to make soon for my family. Do you have a pizza dough or beer pizza dough recipe that you like to use?
Jackie March 11, 2015 um 8:14 am
This one is my favorite: https://domesticfits.com/2012/11/29/beer-pizza-dough/
Kahleen March 11, 2015 um 3:27 pm
thanks
cassie March 11, 2015 um 11:42 am
These look amazing! Could I make them, up to the cooking part, and freeze? Then just pull out what I need and cook from there for future dinners?
Jackie March 11, 2015 um 12:02 pm
If you do that, you should bake rather then grill. Or bake and then grill. If you put frozen calzones on the grill, it won’t cook them through, you’ll have a grilled outside and a frozen inside. But you can make them and put them in the fridge for up to about a day ahead of time. The dough will continue to rise slowly in the fridge so make sure the fridge is very cold (to inhibit a continued rise), and just do it about a day ahead.