PANINI

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Chef Todd English uses the signature pizza dough from his restaurant Figs to whip up this panini.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Lunch Recipes

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 recipe Figs Pizza Dough
2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons olive oil
1 cup thinly sliced fennel bulb, trimmed
1/2 teaspoon lemon zest
Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
Juice of 1 lemon
30 fresh basil leaves
8 slices (1/2 inch thick) fresh mozzarella
2 teaspoons capers

Steps:

  • Place a pizza stone on a rack in the lower third of an oven. Heat oven to 500 degrees. On a heavily floured surface, roll out half the dough as thinly as possible into a 10-inch circle. Rub with 2 teaspoons olive oil. Using a pizza peel, transfer the dough to the pizza stone, and bake until the dough puffs and is slightly golden brown, about 2 minutes per side. Repeat the process with remaining dough.
  • Using a towel, remove the crust from the oven, and place on a cutting board. Top half the crust with fennel, zest, 2 teaspoons olive oil, salt and pepper, lemon juice, 10 basil leaves, and mozzarella. Sprinkle the capers, remaining 5 basil leaves, and 2 teaspoons olive oil over the mozzarella. Season with salt and pepper and a final squeeze of lemon. Fold the crust in half. Using the back of a heavy saute pan, press the panini together. Repeat process with remaining panini.
  • Return the panini to the oven, and bake until the filling is just warmed through. Transfer the panini from the oven to a cutting board, cut the panini in half on the diagonal, and cut into smaller pieces. Serve immediately.

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