Pizza Panini - cooking recipe

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
Preparation
    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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