Pizza Panini Recipes

Steps:

• Heat a grill or campfire to medium heat.
• Make the garlic butter: Add the butter, oregano, garlic powder, and red pepper flakes to a small bowl and stir to combine.
• Slice the French loaf almost all the way in half lengthwise, leaving a long side still attached like a hot dog bun.
• Open the bread and spread the pizza sauce liberally over both sides. Lay the sliced mozzarella on both sides of the bread. Lay half of the pepperoni slices over the mozzarella on the bottom half. Sprinkle with the shredded mozzarella, then top with the remaining pepperoni. Sprinkle the Parmesan and basil over the pepperoni, then gently bring both sides of the bread up together to close.
• Brush to top and bottom of the loaf with the garlic butter, then double wrap the sandwich in aluminum foil.
• Set the sandwich on the grill or campfire over medium heat. Place a cast-iron or other heavy skillet on top to press down. Cook the sandwich for 5 minutes, then flip and cook for 5 minutes more, until the outside of the bread is crisp and the cheese is melted.
• Let sandwich cool for a few minutes before carefully unwrapping. Slice and serve.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Dough: In food processor, mix the beer, warm water, flour, sugar, yeast, salt, and 1 teaspoon oil until dough starts to form and gather into a ball, about 30 seconds. The dough will be sticky. (Add 1 to 2 tablespoons of water if dough isn't balling up.)
• Grease a medium bowl. Shape dough into a ball and transfer it to the bowl.
• Cover and rise in a warm spot until it has risen slightly, about 1 hour. (Depending on the temperature, it probably won't double in size - but it should be slightly puffier.)
• Pizza: Whisk together pizza sauce, tomato paste, barbecue sauce, honey, Worcestershire sauce, and Greek seasoning; set aside.
• Set one rack to lower and one rack to upper oven. Preheat oven to 475°F.
• Grease bottom of 3.5 litre braiser or 9-inch oven-proof skillet with 3 tablespoons of oil.
• Turn proofed dough into skillet. Oil fingers; shape and stretch dough to fit bottom of pan, forming a slight lip around the edge.
• Spread pizza sauce evenly over dough. Top in this order; mushrooms, 2 layers of pepperoni, 3 layers of ham, 2 layers of salami, onion, green pepper, and mozzarella.
• Bake on lower rack until crust is golden brown, about 10 to 14 minutes. Broil on upper rack until cheese is melted and golden brown, about 4 to 6 minutes. (Keep your eye on it while broiling so it doesn't overbake.)
• Let pizza rest in pan for 2 to 4 minutes. Transfer to cutting board. Cut into 16 squares/pieces.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• 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.

Steps:

• Preheat broiler. Arrange zucchini in a single layer on a greased baking sheet. Broil 3-4 in. from heat just until crisp-tender, 1-2 minutes per side., Sprinkle zucchini with salt and pepper; top with sauce, cheese and pepperoni. Broil until cheese is melted, about 1 minute. Sprinkle with basil.