Is there a way to grill the focaccia bread for a panini if you don't have a panini grill?!
Is there a way to grill the focaccia bread for a panini if you don't have a panini grill?
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Mmmm... panini's my favorite...
It depends on what you currently have to work with. If you have 2 heavy pans, you can heat both on stove, then use them one on top of the other to apply the pressure on your sandwich. Or if you have just one heavy (I actually use a cast iron skillet for my own) and one standard sautee or other lighter pan, is it for the putting your sandwich in, and use the heavier on on top. I have also used a grill basket (the wire framed type what you use to grill delicate food item, that allows you to flip back and forth on grill) in the oven at high temp, you don't get the grill marks, but it does toast evenly. The basket is adjustable and you and adjust the pressure you apply on the sandwich. Can also use this on a grill as well. IF your not wanting spend any money to buy a "panini grill" you can make it out of anything. The link below is a wonderful site that gives you many options and recipes for making a panini (which in italian means plural) pinino is actually what the sandwich should be called. The site primarily addresses who to make it on the grill (charcoal or gas) but shows other methods as well, withouth needing to buy an expensive and limited use panini grill. Good luck, and let me kno what time dinner is, I'm starved:)