Panino con Porchetta Umbra
Umbrian porchetta (wild fennel, garlic, pepper) on bread; aromatic.
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Panino con Porchetta di Ariccia
The Castelli Romani reading of roast pork: a boned pig packed with garlic, black pepper, and rosemary, roasted to shattering crackling. Its filling is fixed by EU law, on bread chosen to say nothing.
Panino con Porceddu
Spit-roasted suckling pig (porceddu) on bread; Sardinia's famous roast.
Panino con Polpette Napoletane
Neapolitan meatballs in tomato ragù on bread.
Panino con Pizzoccheri
Buckwheat pasta with cabbage, potatoes, butter, and Bitto/Casera cheese; carb-heavy Valtellina dish as filling.
Panino con Piave
Piave DOP (hard cheese similar to Parmigiano); sweet, nutty.
Panino con Pezzente
Pezzente (poor man's salami from organ meats); rustic, strong-flavored.
Panino con Pesto Genovese
When pesto stops being a condiment and becomes the whole filling, the bread has to survive a raw green sauce: the panino con pesto genovese is Liguria's basil paste holding a sandwich together.
Panino con Pesto e Fagiolini
Pesto with green beans (the classic pasta accompaniment) on bread.
Panino con Peperoni Cruschi
Peperoni cruschi (dried, fried sweet Senise peppers); crunchy, sweet, essential Lucanian ingredient.
Panino con Pecorino Toscano
Tuscan sheep's milk cheese (fresh, semi-stagionato, or stagionato) on bread.
Panino con Pecorino Siciliano
Sicilian pecorino DOP; peppercorns or saffron sometimes added.
Panino con Pecorino Sardo
Pecorino Sardo DOP (dolce or maturo); dolce is mild, maturo is sharp, granular.
Panino con Pecorino Romano
Sharp, salty aged sheep's milk cheese DOP; the classic Roman pasta cheese.
Panino con Pecorino e Pere
Pecorino with pear slices; cheese course as sandwich.
Panino con Pecorino e Miele
Pecorino cheese with honey; sweet-salty combination.
Panino con Pecorino e Fave
Pecorino with fresh fava beans; springtime classic (also eaten without bread).
Panino con Pecorino di Norcia
Local pecorino, sometimes with truffles.
Panino con Pecorino di Fossa
Pecorino di fossa (cheese aged in pits, straw-wrapped); funky, complex, earthy.
Panino con Pecorino di Filiano
Pecorino di Filiano DOP (aged in caves, sometimes in olive oil); intense.
Panino con Pecorino d'Abruzzo
Local Abruzzese pecorino on bread.
Panino con Parmigiano-Reggiano
Rough shards of Parmigiano-Reggiano levered off the wheel and tucked into plain bread, the crunch of tyrosine crystals that only a 24 or 36 month cheese carries.
Panino con Parmigiana
Eggplant Parmesan on bread; available throughout Italy.
Panino con Parmigiana di Melanzane
A panino con parmigiana is a whole baked casserole moved into bread: fried eggplant layered with tomato and mozzarella, cut cold so the slab holds its shape, dense and savoury as any cutlet.