Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, caprese pesto grilled sandwich. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a 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 popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Caprese pesto grilled sandwich is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Take Ingredients for making basil & sun-dried tomato pesto:-
- Get 1 cup fresh basil leaves
- Get 1/2 cup chopped sun-dried tomatoes
- Make ready 1/8 cup parmesan cheese
- Get 2 tbsp chopped almonds
- Take 1/4 cup olive oil or as required
- Make ready 2-3 garlic cloves
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Take Ingredients for making caprese sandwich:-
- Make ready 1 cereal sandwich bread
- Make ready 1/2 cup basil & sundried pesto
- Take 8-10 fresh mozzarella slices
- Make ready 2 riped tomatoes
- Get 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. Reviews for: Photos of Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
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.
Caprese Grilled Cheese is loaded with basil pesto, a thick and chunky garlic butter tomato sauce, and fresh mozzarella cheese. It's the opposite of a rut, in my mind: a rut is when you are bored with. This toasted Pesto Caprese Sandwich is a great summer dish! 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.
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