Panino Vegetariano
With no cured salt and no fat to lean on, the vegetarian panino binds grilled aubergine, courgette, and peppers with oil, garlic, and vinegar into something soft bread can hold without going to paste.
Panino con Verdure
Panino con Verdure Grigliate
Grilled vegetables (zucchini, eggplant, peppers) on bread with olive oil.
Panino con Radicchio Rosso
Red radicchio (especially Treviso IGP's long, tapered variety) grilled or raw on sandwich.
Panino con Radicchio di Treviso
Treviso radicchio specifically; bitter, slightly sweet when grilled.
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 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.
Panino con Panzanella
Panzanella was invented to rescue stale bread with tomato, onion, and oil; the panino packs that bread-salad back into a fresh roll, a loaf carrying an older loaf brought back to life.
Panino con Orecchiette e Cime di Rapa
Ear-shaped pasta with broccoli rabe as sandwich; carb-on-carb Pugliese.
Panino con Friarielli
Friarielli (sautéed broccoli rabe with garlic and chili) on bread; bitter, garlicky green.
Panino con Cipolla Rossa di Tropea
Sweet red onion of Tropea IGP on sandwich; mild, sweet, often raw or in marmalade.
Panino con Cime di Rapa
Puglia's bitter turnip tops boiled then fried down with garlic, chilli, and an optional anchovy, piled into a crusted roll or puccia. A cooked vegetable carrying the whole sandwich.
Panino con Carciofi alla Romana
A whole globe artichoke braised soft with wild Roman mint, sliced and laid between bread. Not the fried alla giudia: the romana goes in wet, herb-soaked, and tender to the core.
Panino con Carciofi alla Giudia
A whole artichoke pressed open and fried twice until the leaves go to glass and the heart stays tender, then raced into bread before the crisp fades. The Roman Jewish quarter's signature, in a loaf.
Panino con Caponata
Caponata, the rested Sicilian relish of fried eggplant in sweet-sour agrodolce with capers, olives, and celery, spooned into a crusted roll. A finished dish before it ever meets bread.
Panino Caprese
Fresh mozzarella, tomato, basil, olive oil; the caprese salad as sandwich.
Panino Caprese
Mozzarella, tomato, basil, olive oil; the caprese salad as sandwich.
Ciabatta con Verdure Grigliate
Ciabatta with grilled vegetables.