Pizza Panini
"This is my take on a Rachael Ray recipe: Inside Out Pizza Panini. I don't follow it in it's entirety, if I did I would use the same title. I have a panini press I have fallen in love with, and this is like my two favorite things in the world (pizza & panini). I am putting *my* favorite ingredients in this, but just like pizza you can do what you want. Unlike a lot of these recipes I do not add pizza sauce, I serve it heated on the side for dunking."
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
4 sandwiches
- Serves:
- 4
ingredients
- 1 loaf focaccia bread
- 4 ounces thinly sliced fresh mozzarella cheese
- 4 ounces thinly sliced provolone cheese
- 4 ounces sliced pepperoni (turkey pepperoni may be substituted)
- 4 ounces sliced genoa salami
- 1 thinly sliced red onion
- 1 cup sliced black olives or 1 cup olive salad
- 1 cup banana pepper
- 1⁄2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1 small thinly sliced tomatoes
- 1 -2 cup shredded lettuce
- red wine vinaigrette, for drizzling (optional)
- olive oil, for drizzling
- your favorite pizza sauce, warmed
directions
- Cut the focaccia in 4 equal parts, slice each in half like sandwich bread.
- Layer mozzarella, provolone & meats.
- Sprinkle dried oregano on top.
- Top with remaining slices of bread.
- Preheat panini press or grill pan to medium heat.
- Drizzle outside of top and bottom layers of bred with a bit of olive oil.
- Place in panini or grill pan.
- If using a panini press, heat approximately 5 minutes, or until cheese is melting and there are grill marks on the bread. If using a grill pan grill 2-3 minutes per side.
- Removed from pan or press, to a plate. Open up sandwich and layer the vegetables, whichever you want, in whatever order you like. If desired, drizzle with vinaigrette.
- Cut in half, serve with pizza sauce, for dipping.
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Reviews
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Made this the evening for dinner and was disappointed. The sandwich wasn't horrible, but it tasted more like a pizza than a panini. I ate panini's in Rome and there is no comparison. Please don't use a thick bread. A real panini is very thin with little content. It has far less calories. I guess that is why European women are so thin. Americans think more is better which we all know is not true. Some panini's on this site listed at 1500 calories per serving. WOW! That's everything I eat all day. I will look for another recipe on this site.
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I'm a 33 yr old divorced mom who loves to cook for friends and family. I live in the DC metro area and I hope to relocate to Seattle, WA in the very near future so my 10 yr old son doesn't have to fly back and forth between me and his father.
