Grilled cheese sandwiches are always a favorite. Yet, let’s kick that up a notch, shall we? How about a recipe for Italian Grilled Cheese Sandwich? Mmmm!
Adding that Italian flaire, these are oozing with mozza and gives such a great flavor when combined with basil pesto and tomatos. It just takes 4 ingredients to make, which makes it super easy to prepare. I make mine with Dempster’s 100% whole wheat bread and side with creamy tomato soup.
Keep in mind, these sandwiches are flavorful and filling, so a half might do. Which leaves another half for a lunch-mate. Great meals are meant to be shared, right?
Enjoy!
Italian Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Ingredients
- Bread
- Mozzarella cheese, sliced
- Tomato, sliced
- 2 tbsp Basil Pesto
Instructions
- Allow your panini press {or griddle} to warm
- Spray with cooking spray, so sandwich doesn’t stick
- Assemble your sandwich with pesto, mozzarella and tomato
- Cook until lightly browned and the cheese has melted
- Cut in half and serve
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This sound perfect to me. Its an easy fix and the ingredients will mesh nicely together. Will be doing this for the family very soon.
Thanks for sharing.
Jillian
Let me know what you think, when you do Jillian!
We love grilled cheese sandwiches and this is the perfect spin on an original masterpiece!!
Oh, it’s sooooo good!!!
That looks delicious! I definitely need some new lunch ideas because I’m tired of eating the same things over and over. Will have to try this!
same here Janet. With school ending in a couple days, I am SO SICK of making the girls’ favorite sandwiches yet they still want them. I’m trying to mix it up a bit. Beat the blahs! lol
Looks delish! I do my grown-up grilled cheese with a similar idea – sliced tomato, oregano, sliced old cheddar.
Hungry now
Oh, cheddar… I’ll try that sometime!
I want this for breakfast.
Ha! #makemeonenow
Yum!! This looks really good! Easy enough to make to!
That looks so delicious. I never buy mozzarella like that. I usually buy the blocks. Is it so much better?
I much prefer this Mozza, it’s softer, melts better {think strings of cheese}, and seems to have a longer span before it shows age.
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I love it when it’s super stringy.. I should try this. Cheese never lasts more than a week here so aging isn’t a problem.
I made homemade deepfried mozzarella sticks tonight. I bet this kind would be more tasty. I want stringy, but cheese string/stick/whatchamacallit’s are not a very tasty sort of cheese.
Too many tasty’s in the last comment. Yeah, weird.
My husband made a sandwich similar to this. It was so good!!! I’m now hungry!
Looks fantastic!
YUmmy! That looks delicious – and simple too!