Buffalo Blue Cheese Chicken Panini

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup chunky blue cheese dressing
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon paprika
• 1 teaspoon chili powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 lbs chicken, breast-thin cut about 8 slices
• 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra for grilling bread
• 3 tablespoons frank's red hot sauce
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 8 slices favorite bread (medium thickness)
• sliced red onion
• celery rib
• blue cheese dressing

Recipe

• 1 in a shallow bowl combine flour, paprika, chili powder and salt. coat chicken with flour mixture. heat oil in a large nonstick pan over medium-high heat and cook chicken on each side until it is fully cooked, about 10 minutes. remove from pan.
• 2 in a small bowl, combine hot sauce and butter. brush each piece of chicken with hot sauce mixture. allow chicken to cool slightly.
• 3 preheat a sandwich grill or panini press. arrange bread slices on a work surface and spread each slice with 1 tablespoon blue cheese dressing. layer cooked chicken and onions on four slices. cover chicken with remaining four slices of bread, dressing side down.
• 4 brush top and bottom of bread with olive oil and place panini in grill or press and cover. cook until bread is toasted, about 3 to 5 minutes. remove from grill and cut each sandwich in half.
• 5 serve sandwiches and celery sticks with extra blue cheese dressing.