Thick As a Brick...... Panini
"The main reason for posting this recipe is that I want to share this cooking method for Panini with you. This easy trick will give you a perfect Panini as an end result and you don’t have to have a special grill…..just a brick wrapped in aluminum foil!!!
Use this or your own favorite Panini recipe, mix and match ingredients or use whatever you have at hand."
photo by Caroline Cooks
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Serves:
-
1-2
ingredients
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise
- 1⁄2 tablespoon mustard
- 1 tablespoon fresh herb, chopped (or some dried bruchetta herbs)
- 2 slices sourdough bread (thick slices)
- 6 slices gruyere cheese
- 4 slices cooked turkey breast
- 4 -6 slices tomatoes
- 6 slices salami
- 4 -6 slices mozzarella cheese
- 1 -2 tablespoon olive oil (depending on the size of the bread) or 1 -2 tablespoon canola oil (depending on the size of the bread)
directions
- You will also need: 1 brick wrapped in aluminum foil.
- Mix together the mayonnaise, mustard and herbs.
- Spread on one side of the bread slices.
- Build your sandwich in this order: Gruyere, turkey, tomato, salami and end with the mozzarella.
- Heat one tablespoon of oil, medium heat, in a frying pan that is large enough to hold the bread, add the bread to the pan and place the brick on top.
- Fry for 3 to 5 minutes, make sure the heat is not too high, you don’t want to burn the bread.
- Remove the brick and bread from the pan, and add the other tablespoon of oil.
- Return the bread to the pan to brown the other side, place the brick on top again and continue to fry until browned to your liking.
- Remove the brick…and serve!
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Reviews
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I'm beginning to think that you don't have any recipes less than 10 stars, Pets. Awesome sandwich! I had a wee bit of problem turning it, because it was sooo tall and long, but did. Only ate half at lunch yesterday and the other today. HUGE sandwich and every bite was MMMMM. Made for Pets Support Cook-a-Thon in Cooking Photos. BTW, I used a cast iron grill pan with a cast iron skillet as a weight. LOL -
I picked this recipe for Pick A Chef Spring 2009. I have a panini grill so I didn't try the brick method. Otherwise I followed the recipe exactly. Be sure to have napkins on hand - this sandwich definitely has the ooze factor - the cheese was meltyand gooey and the tomatoes were juicy. Next time, I will probably leave off the gruyere - I thought it had just a little too much gooey cheese, although that's a personal taste. Thanks for posting a very good sandwich, Pets!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
PetsRus
Leiden, Zuid Holland
Hello, my name is Bonnie and I am a very beautiful cat as you can see if you look at the picture at the top of this page.... What??.. I am supposed to talk about you??? But it says here: About Me!! Well all right then ......
My mom is Dutch and has moved to England in October 2007, after living 15 years in the Netherlands with my English dad. They don’t have any human children and “created” their own family, which means I have to share them with Hannah, she is a 6 years old tortie cat, Abby the dog, she is a 9 year old Beagle, and a one year old black Miniature Pincher named Poppy, I refuse to tell you my age but I am a georgious lilac British Shorthair cat!!
It is obvious she adores pets just by looking at her name she uses on Zaar (many on Zaar call her Pets or Petsie Poo), her name in real life is Annelies and that is a common Dutch name.
My mom always liked to cook, but since she joined Zaar it got out of control, and it doesn’t help that she is disorganized. Printed recipes everywhere in the house, the recipe binders have got bigger and just between you and me, her hips too!!!
I have lived in Holland all of my life until now, but they lived in several different countries/places:- desert and coastal Oman, up North and West in Holland, Vancouver-Canada, Aberdeen- Scotland and in Norway they lived in Bergen and Oslo. We have all moved together to England, as you can see I’ve already learnt the language!
I heard her say to Dad that this is the last time she moved to another country...she's had it with moving from one place to another! ( its her age...she's getting grumpy)
Mom is 55 years old but I always hear her say that the date of her birthday does not mean that much to her, the date of her cancer anniversary is more important, because so far she is a survivor.
Besides cooking she has other interests too, crafts, gardening and soap making.
She likes Zaar and is one of the hosts on the German-Benelux Forum here on RecipeZaar.
She would like to thank everybody who tries and comments on the recipes she has posted on Recipezaar, your feedback is very much appreciated.
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