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Italian Stromboli ~ A Make Ahead Meal

For as long as I’ve know Nick, I’ve been searching for a good pizza dough recipe and just haven’t found one that I loved.  Until now!

Trying recipe after recipe was getting pretty exhausting and I was ready to just give up and (enter gasp here) buy store bought!!  

Then I found Mama’s Best Pizza Dough and I was saved from that shameful idea!

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Besides being absolutely delicious, it makes a ton!  Like four huge pizzas or two hug pizzas and two loaves of bread.

It’s also extremely versatile!  I could come up with so many different ways to use this dough.

Today I decided was a stromboli kind of day!  16 stromboli’s to be exact!  Perfect to make ahead for quick meals or lunches.

You can put just about anything in them, but I decided to make them Italian hoagie style!

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 Makin’ The Dough

I stuck to the original recipe, for the most part.  I found that it needed a bit more flour than they called for, but that could just be from humidity.

 

What do you need?

• 3 cups warm water
• 2 Tbsp. yeast
• 2 Tbsp. sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 6-8 cups flour (This is what I changed. 7 cups wasn’t quite enough.)

How we do it!

• Add your warm water to a mixing bowl (I used my KitchenAid Mixer).
• Add the yeast, stir in and allow to sit for about 5 minutes.  There will be bubbles on the surface.
• With your whisk attachment (or a whisk!) mix in the sugar, salt and 2-3 cups of flour.
• Once it starts to look like a batter, switch to your dough hook, or a wooden spoon, and gradually begin to add the remaining flour.
• Knead the dough, adding the flour, until you have a sticky dough, but not sticky enough to stick to your finger. (About 6-7 minutes.)
• Remove the dough hook and allow it to rest for ten minutes.

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 Let’s Make Stromboli!

What do you need?

• That pretty ball of dough!
• deli ham
• salami
• pepperoni
• shredded mozzarella
• red onion
• banana peppers
• oregano

 

Let’s make ’em!

• Preheat the oven to 400° F.
• Quarter the dough, over and over, until you have 16 pieces.  They will be about the size of your fist.
• Roll them out thin.  About an 8-10 inch long rectangle.

• Load it with your stuff!

• Now you need to wrap it up like a burrito (an Italian burrito, sounds amazing!) and place it on a baking sheet.  I like stone, like this.

• Bake for 20 minutes and enjoy!

We’ve also done these with pepperoni pizza fillings.  What do you like in your stromboli?