From the category archives:

Chicken

Barbecued Chicken Panini Recipe

June 19, 2008

For weeks, I’ve been thinking about how I might put together barbecued chicken panini, but I always got stuck on the cheese part.  What kind of cheese goes with barbecue?  Well, somehow it totally escaped my consciousness that I do enjoy a barbecued chicken pizza every now and then.  That, of course, uses mozzarella.  Successfully [...]

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Lemon-Herb Chicken & Spinach Panini Recipe

June 5, 2008

I’ve gone mobile! It was my good friend Karen’s birthday and another good friend, Gillian, and I decided to prepare lunch for her to celebrate. So I packed up my Breville, a bunch of tupperware full of fixins and my 6 month old and transported Panini Happy up to the OC. As supermom to four [...]

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Chicken, Hummus & Red Pepper Flatbread Panini Recipe

April 3, 2008

Don’t you love those versatile ready-made pizza crusts? Perfectly pre-baked and seasoned discs ready for your chosen toppings. Well, they’re good for more than just pizza – try them as flatbread for panini! In this quick-and-easy Chicken, Hummus & Red Pepper Flatbread Panini recipe, leftover roasted chicken makes a delicious encore with crisp, toasted flatbread, [...]

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Chicken, Pancetta & Swiss Panini Recipe

March 24, 2008

I love to roast a chicken on the weekends, and with just two of us (who eat solids) in the house, there are always a lot of leftovers. Fortunately, panini were tailor-made for leftovers. I pulled together this even-better-the-next-day sandwich with ingredients I had in my pantry – challah bread, roasted garlic aioli, pancetta, swiss [...]

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Chicken, Apple & Raspberry Panini Recipe

February 12, 2008

Raspberries on chicken panini?? It’s far from traditional, but the unexpected sweetness of the raspberry preserves on this sandwich provide just the right complement to the saltiness of the asiago cheese and rotisserie chicken and the tartness of Granny Smith apples. Want to see how this recipe was created? Check out “A Chicken Meandering”. 4 [...]

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A Chicken Meandering

February 12, 2008

Sometimes I hit upon a great sandwich on the first try, and other times…well, it goes the way it went this past weekend. I started with dreams of a relatively easy chicken sandwich, incorporating flavor combinations I’ve loved in various appetizers – chicken and apples, apples and brie. But as I’m discovering, once some of [...]

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Buffalo Chicken Panini

January 30, 2008

Here’s a way to serve Buffalo chicken for the big game, panini-style! Simmered in wing sauce, the chicken has all the spicy and tangy flavors you love nestled with creamy melted blue cheese and sweet caramelized onions. All of this great taste is folded up inside a pita bread, grilled nice and toasty.

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