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My recipe for crispy air fryer calzones come together in only a few minutes, using pre-made pizza dough (either homemade or store-bought!). Ready in 20 minutes and customizable with whatever fillings you choose, calzones are my go-to choice for a quick dinner, or a grab and go snack! Yields 8 calzones.
Making calzones in the air fryer is a bit of a “non-recipe” recipe. It’s open to a lot of variations depending on what is in your fridge, the size of your air fryer, and what everyone in the family likes in their calzones.
Use my instructions as a guideline and then go make these calzones your own.
Ingredient Highlights
The base for this recipe is uncooked pizza dough. Feel free to make your calzones with premade pizza dough from the store (Pro tip: if it is cold, you have to let it sit at room temp for an hour or you will absolutely hate your life trying to roll it out) or homemade dough.
I have tested this recipe with our 100% whole wheat pizza dough recipe and our overnight pizza dough recipe.
For the pizza sauce, storebought also works great here. Have an almost empty jar of spaghetti sauce in your fridge? Blitz it with a blender for a few seconds and voila, pizza sauce!
I have also tested this homemade calzone recipe with our homemade sugar-free pizza sauce and white pizza sauce
Pro Tips/Recipe Notes
- If you’re using refrigerated pizza dough, allow it to come to room temperature before rolling.
- If you’re making pizza dough from scratch, add 1 hour to the prep time estimate for the recipe.
- Any meat(s) you use in the air fryer calzones must be cooked prior to baking.
- Watery vegetables (like mushrooms, zucchini, etc.) are best if sauteed and drained of excess water prior to baking the calzones.
20-Minute Air Fryer Calzones Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 lb pizza dough {homemade or storebought}
- all-purpose flour {for working with the dough}
- 1/2 cup pizza sauce
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella
- toppings of your choice
- 1 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Divide the dough into 8 equally sized pieces.1 lb pizza dough
- Working with 1 piece at a time, roll pizza dough into a 6-inch circle to the thickness of ~1/8 inch.all-purpose flour
- Spread 1-2 tbsp of pizza sauce on one half of the circle, leaving a 1-inch border.1/2 cup pizza sauce
- Add ~3 tbsp cheese and ~2 tbsp various toppings to each calzone.2 cups shredded mozzarella, toppings of your choice
- Fold the clean side of the dough up and over the filled side.
- Brush olive oil on the basket of the air fryer AND the top of the calzone.1 tbsp olive oil
- Place 1-2 calzones in the air fryer and bake at 370˚F for 9 minutes (check at 7 minutes since all air fryers will bake slightly differently).
Notes
- If you’re making pizza dough from scratch, add 1 hour to the prep time for the recipe.
- If using refrigerated pizza dough, allow it to come to room temperature before rolling.
- All meats used must be cooked before baking in air fryer.
Oven Baking Instructions:
Bake on a baking sheet at 435˚F for 15-20 minutes.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Super easy to make!! Followed the pizza dough recipe as well!! My boys loved them and my son enjoyed putting them together with me. Paired with a big salad and everyone was full and super satisfied. This is a good one!!!
I’m really big on big batch freezer meals, and this would be perfect for me. I personally don’t use any parchment in my air fryer because to me there’s no difference even with clean up. I just put both the basket and drawer in the dishwasher–problem solved. I can understand if the basket and/or drawer can’t go in the dishwasher, but for my model they both can. I also oil the entire calzone or whatever food I’m air frying. I use EVO oil sprayers–each spray is exactly 1/4 teaspoon so I know exactly what I’m putting on my foods before air frying them.