Pesto Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Description

I first had this sandwich at a small restaurant and immediately went home to duplicate the recipe. I’ve been making my grilled cheese sandwiches this way ever since!

Ingredients

  • 2 slices Italian bread
  • 1 tablespoon softened butter, divided
  • 1 tablespoon prepared pesto sauce, divided
  • 1 slice provolone cheese
  • 2 slices tomato
  • 1 slice American cheese

Instructions

  1. Spread one side of a slice of bread with butter
  2. and place it
  3. buttered side down
  4. into a nonstick skillet over medium heat.
  5. Spread the top of the bread slice in the skillet with half the pesto sauce
  6. and place a slice of provolone cheese
  7. the tomato slices
  8. and the slice of American cheese onto the pesto.
  9. Spread remaining pesto sauce on one side of the second slice of bread
  10. and place the bread slice
  11. pesto side down
  12. onto the sandwich. Butter the top side of the sandwich.
  13. Gently fry the sandwich
  14. flipping once
  15. until both sides of the bread are golden brown and the cheese has melted
  16. about 5 minutes per side.

Prep Time: 5 mins

Cook Time: 10 mins

Total Time: 15 mins

Servings: 1

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