A panino is a study in restraint — not what you can fit inside, but what you can leave out. Two or three ingredients, each doing real work, is almost always better than a pile of them doing nothing.
Mortadella & Pistachio proves the point by refusing to press the sandwich at all, keeping the stracciatella cold and the meat loosely folded so nothing gets squeezed flat. Mozzarella & 'Nduja goes the opposite direction — pressed hard and hot until the cheese melts completely into the spice and the bread blisters. Different techniques, same lesson underneath.
Thick-cut mortadella, crushed pistachios, and stracciatella — an unpressed panino built on volume and contrast, not compression.
Read the recipe →Spicy, melting 'nduja against cold fresh mozzarella, pressed hard until the bread blisters — a study in contrast that works every time.
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