Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, caprese pesto grilled sandwich. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Caprese Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Arugula Pesto- a toasty, melty grilled cheese sandwich with flavorful arugula pesto highlighting ripe and juicy summer tomatoes. This Caprese Grilled Cheese Sandwich checks all the boxes for me- toasty, melty and full of so much flavor! For this delicious Caprese Sandwich, I have been experimenting with pesto lately and tried out this sandwich after my granddaughter requested me to make it for her.
Caprese pesto grilled sandwich is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Caprese pesto grilled sandwich is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have caprese pesto grilled sandwich using 15 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Caprese pesto grilled sandwich:
- Get Ingredients for making basil & sun-dried tomato pesto:-
- Prepare 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- Make ready 1/2 cup chopped sun-dried tomatoes
- Get 1/8 cup parmesan cheese
- Take 2 tbsp chopped almonds
- Make ready 1/4 cup olive oil or as required
- Get 2-3 garlic cloves
- Take to taste Salt
- Get Ingredients for making caprese sandwich:-
- Take 1 cereal sandwich bread
- Prepare 1/2 cup basil & sundried pesto
- Prepare 8-10 fresh mozzarella slices
- Get 2 riped tomatoes
- Make ready 2 tbsp blasmic vinegar
- Make ready as needed olive oil
Did you know that April is national grilled cheese month? In place of American cheese I use some sliced mozzarella for this sandwich. Instead of butter on the outside of the bread, I brushed on a little olive. This toasted Pesto Caprese Sandwich is a great summer dish!
Steps to make Caprese pesto grilled sandwich:
- Steps for preparing basil & sun-dried pesto:-
- In a mixer jar add 1 cup of washed basil leaves,1/8 cup of parmesan cheese, 2tbsp of chopped almonds,2 tsp of garlic cloves blend for 2-3 minutes.
- Scrape the sides of the jar add 1/2 cup chopped sun-dried tomatoes, salt to taste, and 1/4cup olive oil, blend all the ingredients once again.
- Scrape the sides of jar on regularly intervals and blend until you get the desired consistency.
- If you feel it is difficult to blend, add 1-2 tbsp more of olive oil and blend again.
- Remove pesto in a clean glass jar and keep aside.
- Steps for assembling sandwich:-
- Slice tomatoes into thick slices, place them in bowl, pour 2tbsp blasmic vinegar over them and keep aside.
- Place 1 piece of cereal bread on the chopping board then apply pesto onto a slice of bread. Then layer the cereal bread with 2 pieces of fresh mozzarella cheese and 2 pieces of sliced tomatoes.
- Then cover it with another piece of cereal bread.Same way assemble all the sandwiches.
- Preheat the grill pan over medium heat.
- Once the pan is hot apply olive oil on the grill pan.Then place the assembled sandwich.
- Now grill the sandwich for 2-3 minutes, until it's golden brown in colour and the cheese is melted.
- Gently with the help of a spatula flip the sandwich to other side.Drizzle some more olive oil on pan if required and grill again for 2-3 minutes.
- Once the sandwich is done remove it from the pan.Let it cool down a bit.
- Finally cut the sandwich from the centre with a sharp knife and serve it hot.
All you need is fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, balsamic vinegar, bread and pesto! Lately I've been on a quest to recreate this fabulous Pesto Caprese Sandwich I get at a place next to one of the theaters I work at. Reviews for: Photos of Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich. It's really our fault for letting them eat their candy at full throttle. Next year, I'll be extra careful to eat confiscate their candy I immediately made another one with a dollop of basil pesto inside and it was perfect.
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