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Focaccia vs Panini - What's the difference?

focaccia | panini |

As nouns the difference between focaccia and panini

is that focaccia is a flat bread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast while panini is a type of sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with salami, ham, meat, cheese or other food.

focaccia

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) A flat bread similar in style, composition, and texture to modern pizza doughs and topped with herbs, cheese and other products. Focaccia typically consists of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.
  • * 2001 , Eve Zibart, The Ethnic Food Lover's Companion , page 47
    • The same dough can be used for bread, rolls, breadsticks, bruschetta, focaccia', calzone, or pizza. The only practical difference between pizza and '''focaccia''' is the thickness of the crust: Traditional pizza crust is thin, and something an inch or two thick is more like ' focaccia .
  • (countable) A sandwich made with this type of bread.

    • See also

    * (Focaccia) ----

    panini

    English

    (wikipedia panini)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A type of sandwich made of a small loaf of bread, cut horizontally, filled with salami, ham, meat, cheese or other food.
  • * 2007 , , 00:17:15
    • (two characters talking at a table in a cafeteria) -- "What is that? What's a panini ?" -- "It's a bread roll, toasted, flattened. It's nice."