If caprese salad is already good, imagine the sandwich. So, learn how to make a classic Italian cuisine in its sandwich version.
Caprese salad is a very famous classic Italian recipe. In fact, the classic recipe combines buffalo mozzarella with tomatoes and basil and is divine. And we’ve even taught you the recipe here. If it’s already good on a salad, imagine the sandwich. Yes, today we will teach you how to do it caprese sandwich.
As it is a sandwich, it is naturally a very quick recipe. Therefore, It’s perfect for any occasion, from a light lunch, or even dinner when you don’t want to spend hours cooking. Or even a quick afternoon snack.
Anyway, The preparation time is just 10 minutes and in this case the recipe is for two sandwiches.
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Caprese sandwich recipe
Ingredients
Preparation mode
- First, on a cutting board, cut the cherry tomatoes in half, as well as the buffalo mozzarella balls.
- Then, heat a frying pan over medium heat and place the baguette slices to brown on both sides.
- Remove the bread, add a drizzle of olive oil to the pan and add the tomatoes.
- Thus, season with salt and black pepper to taste.
- Hold the handle of the frying pan and move back and forth for a minute. This way, you will mix the ingredients well.
- Lastly, add the mozzarella halves and let it heat for approximately 30 seconds.
- Remove from heat.
- Now just assemble the caprese sandwich. Then, on the baguette slice add the tomatoes and slightly heated mozzarella and cover with fresh basil leaves. Add another slice of baguette and it’s ready.
Caprese sandwich preparation tips
- In this recipe we use baguette bread. However, you can use any other bread you prefer, like Italian bread, or some homemade bread. In fact, check out some of the recipes we’ve already taught here.
- Therefore, a tip when browning bread is to spread it with a little butter or margarine.
- So, if you don’t have buffalo mozzarella balls, you can use the large sliced unit even. After all, cheese is the same, just the shape changes.
- The caprese recipe uses buffalo mozzarella, but if you don’t have it, you can use white cheese for example.
- By the way, a tip for To spice up your caprese sandwich even further, use pesto sauce.. It is simply magnificent.
- Finally, if you want, after assembling the sandwich, You can take the pan back to heat up and release the basil flavor.. Or serve cold.
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Sources: Panelinha Recipedia Ana Maria Brogui
