Caprese Grilled Cheese

Name: Caprese Grilled Cheese
Prep time: 12 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 12 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 6 basil leaves; 1 Tbsp butter; 2 slices French or Italian bread; 1 serving Kosher salt; 28 grams mozzarella cheese, sliced or grated; 1 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil; 2 slices ripe tomato

This vegetarian recipe serves 1. One portion of this dish contains roughly 10g of protein, 46g of fat, and a total of 543 calories. The Fourth Of July will be even more special with this recipe. If you have basil leaves, butter, tomato, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 12 minutes.

Instructions

Heat one teaspoon butter and one teaspoon olive oil in a large non-stick skillet over medium heat until foaming subsides.

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Butter

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Add both bread slices and cook, swirling occasionally, until pale golden brown on bottom side, about 2 minutes.

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Bread

Transfer to a cutting board toasted-side-up. half of cheese on top of one slice of bread. Top with tomato, basil, and remaining cheese. Close sandwich, with both toasted sides facing inwards.

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Cheese

Tomato

Basil

Bread

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Heat one more teaspoon each of butter and oil in the skillet and reduce heat to medium low.

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Add sandwich and cook, swirling occasionally, until deep, even golden brown, about 5 minutes.

Remove sandwich using a flexible metal spatula.

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Add the remaining butter and oil. Return sandwich to skillet cooked-side up. Season with salt. Cook, swirling occasionally, until second side is deep, even golden brown and cheese is thoroughly melted, about 5 minutes.

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