Brat And Swiss Cheese Panini

Total Time: 42 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 16 slices rye bread
• 1/2 cup brown mustard
• 32 slices swiss cheese (or 1 lb. thinly sliced swiss cheese)
• 8 fully cooked bratwursts, sliced thinly on the diagonal
• melted butter
• nonstick cooking spray

Recipe

• 1 spread 8 slices of bread with 1 tablespoon of mustard.
• 2 place one 1-ounce slice of swiss cheese on eight of the slices of bread.
• 3 divide the sausage into eight portions and distribute evenly on the eight cheese-topped bread slices.
• 4 top the sausages with the remaining swiss cheese.
• 5 close the sandwiches with the remaining eight slices of bread.
• 6 brush the outsides of each sandwich with melted butter or spray with cooking spray.
• 7 cook in a panini or other sandwich press; or cook in a nonstick saute pan set on medium heat (weight each sandwich with a cake pan holding a 28-ounce can; cook on one side until golden brown, remove the weight, turn the sandwich, and cook on the second side until golden brown and the cheese melts).
• 8 slice each sandwich in half and serve with soup or chips.