Portobello & Kale Calzone with Garlic Miso Cream

Directions

1. 1
   Preheat oven to 400 degrees.First, roast the garlic for the garlic cream sauce.
2. 2
   Remove most of the outer layer of skin on the garlic leaving enough to hold them in place, lay sideways and cut the tops off.
3. 3
   Place garlic cut side up on a piece of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil and top with sea salt & cracked pepper. Fold ends of foil up and squeeze together and crimp the edge.
4. 4
   Place on cookie sheet and cook for 40-45 minutes.
5. 5
   Let cool. Check here for a great visual tutorial from Oh She Glows: How To Roast Garlic
6. 6
   Once garlic is done, turn the oven up to 475-500 degrees.
7. 7
   Place pizza stone inside the oven for about 45 minutes before cooking.While garlic is roasting, let pizza dough come to room temp in its package away from oven heat for 30 minutes.
8. 8
   Remove from package, place on a lightly floured surface, flatten out a bit with your hands, cut dough into four equal portions, roll each portion into a ball, cover with light towel and let set for another 30 minutes away from oven heat to let the gluten relax....if the gluten isn't relaxed you may have a hard time rolling out your dough properly.Next onto the garlic cream sauce.
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   Drain cashews and place all ingredients into food processor/blender and process until creamy, about 3 to 4 minutes. If cream is too thick and extra water 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency being careful not to thin it out too much making it runny, if in doubt leave it on the thick side. Taste for seasoning, set aside.Slice your grape/cherry tomatoes in half, place in small bowl and set aside. You may even want to dip a tomato half into the garlic cream sauce, just to make sure it tastes good!In large skillet, heat olive oil over medium high heat.
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    Add onion, garlic and cook until onions become soft.
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    Add in mushrooms, broccoli, kale/spinach,thyme and salt & pepper to taste, cook for another 5 minutes or so. Turn off heat and cover ajar to help steam and soften the veggies a little more while working on the next step.On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion out into an eight inch oval, rectangle, circle, ...whatever works easiest for you.
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    Lay on some of the veggie mixture, add a few heaping tablespoons of the garlic miso cream and top with some of the kale and tomatoes (or layer however you like, this is just a suggestion, my emphasize is to keep the cream in the middle of the calzone as much as possible). Fold the other half over and seal the edges by rolling them up and sealing or by pressing with a fork, or both. Top with a light coat of olive oil and a sprinkle of salt, pepper and thyme.Dust the heated pizza stone with cornmeal, place calzone on the pizza stone and bake for 7 - 10 minutes, until crust is puffy and golden brown.
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    Let cool a few minutes and serve.
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    Serve with some garlic miso sauce on the side.Note: Pizza stones are a really nice item to have...they work great for pizza of course, and this calzone, as well as baking artisan bread. Some of my favorite loaves of artisan bread were baked using a pizza stone.Enjoy!I would love to see your masterpieces! #thesimpleveganista