If you love rich, creamy pasta dishes and golden, cheesy baked breads, then these Cheesy Chicken Alfredo Calzones are about to become your new favorite comfort food. Imagine everything you love about chicken alfredo tender chicken, velvety white sauce, and loads of melted cheese wrapped inside a warm, golden-brown calzone crust. Every bite is indulgent, satisfying, and perfect for cozy dinners, game nights, or family gatherings.
Classic Italian fillings such as pepperoni and mozzarella are the top choices of filling, yet in this creamy Alfredo variant, calzones are at a different level of consumption. These are crispy yet sticky gooey calzones that burst with flavors at the outside. The most important thing is that they are actually quite simple to prepare at home using humble ingredients.
It is an excellent recipe to cook on a Sunday night and even when you want something big but not too bad on a weekday, this one is something you can count on all the time.
What Cheesy Chicken Alfredo Calzones Are?
Calzone is nothing more than a folded pizza, baked until it gets golden and crispy. Rather than tomato sauce, in this variant, there is Alfredo sauce and it is made with a seasoned chicken and plenty of cheese are used. The filling remains leathery and full of cheeses as the dough bakes to perfection creating an indefiable contrast of flavors.
These calzones are:
- Creamy and cheesy
- Hearty and filling
- Fam friendly and mob friendly.
- Best to freeze or prepare meals.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
These are good comfort food, cozy, cheesy and so gratifying.
Good transformation of leftover chicken. Rotisseries chicken is perfect.
Modifiable, You can add mushrooms, spinach or bacon.
Home cooking, Restaurant Italian bistro.
Cheesy Chicken Alfredo Calzones Recipe
Ingredients You’ll Need
For the Calzones
- 1 lb pizza dough (store-bought or homemade)
- 2 cups freshly cooked chicken breast, in shreds or dices.
- 1 ½ cups Alfredo sauce (homemade or purchased)
- 1 ½ cups mozzarella cheese, grated.
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
For Brushing
- 1 egg (beaten, for egg wash)
- 1 tablespoon melted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley (as of an option)
Instruction
Step 1: Prepare the Filling
Add Alfredo sauce, mozzarella cheese, Parmesan cheese, garlic powder, black pepper, and Italian seasoning into a large bowl to mix with the hot chicken. Stir until all the items are properly coated and creamy. Set aside.
Step 2: Preheat the Oven
Turn on your oven and preheat it to 425 deg F (220 deg C). Parchment or grease lightly the baking sheet so as not to stick.
Step 3: Rolling and dividing of the Dough.
Split up the dough of pizza into 4 equal parts. Roll the portions, which have been placed on a floured surface, into circles with a diameter of about 7-8 inches.
Step 4: Fill the Calzones
Add the chicken Alfredo filling to the middle of each dough circle leaving approximately an inch to the edge. Do not stuff it too tightly or you may get a leakage because of overfilling.
Step 5: Fold and Seal
Fold the filling in the middle of the dough to create half-moon. Crimp using a fork by pushing the edges against one another thus creating a complete enclosure.
Step 6: Brush and Season
Put the calzones into the ready baking plate. Brush each one with egg wash. Blend the melted butter and sprinkled with the garlic powder which can then be lightly sprinkled over the top to add flavor. Add chopped parsley, use it, or not.
Step 7: Bake
Bake the calzones 15-18 minutes or until they are deep-golden and puffed. Its crust must be hard, and its outward stuff hot and bubbling.
Step 8: Rest and Serve
Let the calzones heat and then serve it after 5 minutes. This aids the filling set and burns due to the hot cheese.
Tips For Perfect Calzones
Don’t Overfill – When they are overfilled they burst.
Close lids properly – Does not let the sauce burn out.
Add heavy Alfredo sauce – thin sauce can make the dough mushy.
Let them sleep – The stuffing becomes a little firmer, so that it can be cut with greater cleanliness.
Delicious Variations
Spinach Alfredo Calzones
Add spinach sauteed to make it additional flavor.
Bacon Chicken Alfredo
It gets better when bacon goes on.
Mushroom Alfredo
Ideal to mushroom lovers.
Spicy Version
Omit and add red pepper flakes or jalapenos.
What To Eat With Chicken Alfredo Calzones
These calzones fill themselves, but make marvelous partners to:
- Vinaigrette and fresh green salad.
- Garlic bread or breadsticks
- Roasted vegetables
Basing or more extra Alfredo sauce to dip.
Storage and Reheating
To Store: Store unused calzones in airtight container in refrigerator as long as 3 days.
To Reheat: Oven: 350degF for 10-12 minutes
Air fryer: 350degF for 5-7 minutes
Microwave: Rapid, although crust can be softened.
Freezing: Bake or do not bake calzones and wrap them tightly before freezing within a duration of 2 months.
Final Thoughts
The definition of comfort food goes in these Cheesy Chicken Alfredo Calzones. They are crisped and stuffed on the outside and creamy, full of flavor in the inside and is ideal when you are busy during weeknights or during dinner outings, or any other time you are in need of something delicious.
After you prepare them at home, you will not understand why you ordered a takeout. A single bite will make this recipe a new permanent part of your meal rotation.
Have you liked this recipe and would like to save it not to mention to share it and experiment with filling it in, you can never go wrong with cheese, chicken, and Alfredo-Sauce!
Happy Baking!