Meet my favorite sandwich, the Caprese Sandwich. It tastes so fresh and delicious and is made in minutes. We first started eating these when we lived in Germany. My neighbor packed us lunches for the park one day and I was hooked.
So when your garden produces loads of tomatoes and basil…… make a caprese sandwich.
How to make a Caprese Sandwich
All you need is fresh mozzarella,basil, ciabatta bread and pesto –the secret ingredient that puts this caprese sandwich ahead of all the others! This sandwich is also fantastic grilled. We place ours in a panini grill for a few minutes to make a toasted sandwich with gooey cheese. If you don’t have a panini grill you can easily toast in a skillet. I like to flatten the sandwich so I place another smaller skillet on top or a brick wrapped in aluminum foil.
This sandwich is also great made with a French baguette. It is also really good with a drizzle of balsamic vinegar!
Caprese Sandwich
Ingredients
- tomato, sliced
- a couple fresh basil leaves
- fresh mozzarella, sliced
- 1 tbsp pesto more or less to taste
Instructions
- Slice the bread and generously spread pesto on each side. Stack bread with sliced tomatoes, fresh mozzarella and basil leaves. Salt and pepper if you like.
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YUM!
For another great sandwich recipe try one of these delicious chicken wraps! So many great recipes to try.
Love this sandwich. It also tastes yummy on sandwich bread and grilled like a panini.
Oh this looks yummy!! Thank you for sharing 🙂
If you love that, try the cold-weather version: roast the tomatoes with sliced onions, then grill the finished sandwich, panini-style.
Yum! One of my all-time favorites.
Um…if you have fresh basil, you can make your own pesto…it is AMAZING. We’ve been doing it all summer. Most recipes call for pine nuts…but they are a bit expensive and we’ve found that walnuts work great All you need is basil, garlic, the nuts and parmesan cheese in a blender. YUMM!
When I was younger our school burned down so there were no hot lunches for us while they were rebuilding. One of the sandwiches my mother would make was a tomato sandwich. We didn’t have the basil or the pesto… but just seeing this took me back to childhood! 🙂 GREAT photos!
Yummy! The tomatoes have been wonderful this summer.
This sounds so delish! I love ciabatta bread! I am having a few girls over next week so I think I will fix these sandwiches. Thanks for sharing!
Cindy!
Do you know how much I LOVE this sandwich!
I always get one like this at Central Market~
Surely you sprinkled some course sea salt on those tomatoes! ;o)
LOVE it!
PINNING it! ;o)
xoxoxo
You took the words right out of my mouth. Nothing tastes better than a
warm tomato out of the garden! Beautiful pics…simply mouth watering
My favorite, too! Except I usually do balsamic or red wine vinegar instead of pesto.
Looks good! I think that I might try that!
Wow. I love your pictures of the tomatoes and basil.. I’ve been growing cherry tomatoes and basil in my garden and with a bumper crop, I posted a caprese salad appetizer this week too. Your pictues make my hungry. Yum.
Wow! The photos are magnificent – I can taste everything right now!
I know what I’m serving for lunch!
That looks tasty!!