Copycat Italian Grinder Recipes

COPYCAT ITALIAN GRINDER

Steps:

• If sausage has casings remove them and crumble into pan with the ground beef. Brown both meats together until no longer pink. Drain fat.
• And pepper & onion
• add garlic salt, red pepper flakes & pizza sauce.
• stir to combine and heat for 5 min
• Preheat oven to 400 F. Cut the split French loaf into 2 separate sandwiches. Repeat with second loaf.
• Pull a small amount of bread out of the bottom and top of the loaf to make a bowl for the meat.
• Fill the bowl with meat mixture.
• Cover the meat mixture with shredded Mozzarella cheese.
• Place the top of loaf onto the sandwich
• Lay out foil for each sandwich and spray with non-stick spray. Lay sandwich on foil and wrap. Bake for 10 minutes in the oven
• Open foil up and brush with butter and sprinkle with garlic salt. Bake 5 min more with the foil packet open
• Remove from foil packets and serve

GRINDER BUNS... LIKE MANCINO'S ABM

Steps:

• Put first 6 ingredients into bread machine in order that your machine calls for. Mine is water, lard,sugar, salt, flour then yeast.
• Set machine to dough setting and let run through.
• Spray a baking sheet with olive oil cooking spray then sprinkle very lightly with cornmeal.
• Divide dough into 4 equal parts. Take each part and roll it into a rope about 12 inches long. Set the rope down, then flatten to about 3 -4 inches wide and roughly square off the ends with your fingers. Should look like a flat rectangle.
• Place shaped dough onto prepared pan.
• Spray plastic wrap with olive oil spray and cover dough spray side down and let rise until doubled in size.
• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Remove plastic wrap from dough. Mix together 3 Tbs cold water and the cornstarch. Brush cornstarch mixture over the rolls then put in oven. Discard remaining cornstarch mixture.
• Bake until golden brown, about 20 minutes.
• Let cool completely.
• To slice in half for hoagies, place the bun flat on the counter. Place your hand on top of the bun, holding it flat down, while you slice through it with a long serrated bread knife.
• Fill with your fave fillings and enjoy!

ITALIAN GRINDER

Steps:

• Slightly toast buns, with insides up, in toaster oven or oven.
• On bottom half of bun layer two slices capicola, pepperoni, salami and provalone.
• Return to oven and toast until cheese is melting and kind of bubbly (my meat starts to crisp a little on the edges) and top bun is toasty brown.
• Remove from oven and top with shredded lettuce, tomato and italian dressing.