I had mentioned about my love for the panini at panera bread. I had to try making it at home. I had mentioned in the above mentioned post that I had frozen 1/3rd of the dough. So, yesterday night for dinner, I made these paninis. Since the bread was just out of oven, these were crispy and very very tasty. I think I will make this often now. This is not exactly same as panera bread version, but was definitely very good.
Ingredients:
Small loaf of bread(any bread will do)
Mozzerella cheese
Few tomato slices
Sun dried tomato pesto :
1/4 cup sun dried tomatoes
1 tea spn freshly chopped garlic
1/4 tea spn chilli flakes
1/2 tea spn dried basil
Salt
Method:
Grind the pesto ingredients (do not add water, if necessary, add olive oil).
Cut the loaf horizontally. Spread the pesto on one side.
Keep fresh tomato slice on it. Then spread mozzerella cheese.
Cover with the second half.
Grill it in panini press or on a normal grill(Keep the bread on grill and keep a heavy weight on top) till it gets marks from both sides.
Serve hot.
PS: Fresh basil works better than dried one in this. If you can find it, add the chopped leaves to panini instead of including it in pesto.
For melting the cheese faster, broil it in oven for few minutes and then grill.
The quantity of all the ingredients is not mentioned as it is a mix and match dish.
We love panini at our house, sun dried tomato pesto with chese looks delish.
Like the weight you have used there shilpa.
Beautiful!
Very tasty and easy to prepare.Looks similar to vada pav.
Great going shilpa!!
Inviting you to participate in the bread mania event
http://sindhura-bayleaf.blogspot.com/2009/01/bayleafs-sandwich-event.html
Best regards
Sindhura
Wow, all from scratch ? Wonderful..Nice step by step instructions here.
it sounds good ….. must try to bake a bread first and then this…..
Wow.. the description + photos is mouthwatering! Crisp bread n filling..yumm..I loved the last photo, I often do this to cook my curry in a deep kadhai where the lid is illfitting to avoid steam frm escaping 😀 Lovely recipe, tks for sharing! Hv a gr8 wkend.
yes, i’m gonna make panini when i next make bread.
Hi
I tried panini and it is really yummy!!!!!!!!
Thank you.
sudha
This post has inspired me Shilpa. Now I know what I’m having for lunch, am making it as soon as I finish typing this comment. Will be using store-bought artisan bread though. Btw, your olive loaf can give Panera bread a run for its money, it looks so good.
I love tomato-mozzarella-basil combination in salads and sandwiches.. I’ve been thinking of buying a panini press for a while, I also use a makeshift panini press just like you’ve done here… 🙂
Love the panini at panera bread too….this one looks pretty yum 🙂
Please let me know which sundried tomatoes we need to use.I bought which we get in packet and are dry ,the others are bottled and marinated in vinegar and oil.It would be great if you could give me the name of the brand which you used.
Shilpa: You can use any sundried tomatoes. I have used different ones and all work good.
Hi Shilpa:
I love your Panini-Grill! Yaaay!
Love sandwiches and I try to make something similar on the weekends;
Thanks for sharing! Will have to try making pesto!
Hope all is well!
Shilpa, this looks yummy. I will try this tomorrow for lunch. If you are wondering why I am a daily visitor of your website then to let you know, I am preggo with my 2nd baby so now a days, all I do is look for food and eat it, LOL…I will try baking some bread from your recipe too.
Hi Shilpa, your panini looks so tempting, better than any professional panini ever. Always enjoy visiting here.
This looks great!!!!!!!!! we ate humus and spinich panini in us and we loved it so much that now back in uk i try to make all the types of panini with all the diffrent ingridiants. i well try this too.