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1 Comment · Last updated Aug 4, 2014 | Published on Jun 10, 2013

Margherita Pizza Grilled Cheese

Margherita Pizza Grilled Cheese

Life in our new home has been filled with love, Amazon shipments, celebratory champagne, attempted green thumbs, and enough cardboard boxes to build Jack a cat-tastic mansion {and I am nearly positive that he’s test-napped every empty box he’s pounced upon}. Amidst a sea full of styrofoam and packing tape, I finally found our new kitchen sometime early last week. Stumbling around the cabinets that my mom so perfectly organized for us, I felt a bit rusty as I far too frequently turned to reach for phantom drawers of condos past. However, after a few laps between refrigerator, stove, silverware drawer, and spice rack, my squeaky cooking joints seemed to work their kinks out as I established new muscle memories within this kitchen.

This kitchen is already inspiring recipe ideas and it feels so nice to finally give our kitchen-gadget wedding gifts a home of their own. Poor things had been living in C & B boxes in our storage unit for nearly a year by the time we moved. Now they’re eager to slice, dice, bake, broil, simmer, and serve.

Simplicity has been theme of our post-move, unpacking meals, and I dared not veer too far from that trend for my first of many kitchen tangos. A while back, I wrote a handful of recipes for a grilled cheese series and only one has since made it to fruition on the blog. Thus, I figured no time like the present to get this series back up and cheesing. Speaking of cheesing, I should probably knock my cheese factor down a notch or two, huh?

I’m in love with this grilled cheese. It’s my favorite pizza rolled into one toasty, chewy, flavorful bundle of a sandwich. Fresh mozzarella artfully melts itself over the edges of toasted bread slathered with a simple San Marzano sauce, and the floral notes of sweet basil tame the richness of it all.

Margherita Pizza Grilled Cheese

Margherita Pizza Grilled Cheese

Margherita Pizza Grilled Cheese

Margherita Pizza Grilled Cheese
 
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Serves: 4
Ingredients
  • 1 28-ounce can San Marzano whole peeled tomatoes
  • 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
  • 2 small garlic cloves, minced
  • 1/4 cup chopped basil
  • 8 slices of bread from a large, hearty Italian loaf
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • sea salt, to taste
  • 8 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced*
  • 1/2 cup whole basil leaves
Instructions
  1. For the sauce, pulse San Marzano tomatoes, sea salt, garlic, and chopped basil in a blender until broken down into a sauce. Pour sauce into a large saucepan and place over medium-high heat on stove. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes.
  2. Heat a grill pan or grill over medium-high heat. Drizzle bread slices with olive oil and sprinkle with sea salt. Place bread on grill pan and grill until golden-brown grill marks emerge. Flip and repeat.
  3. Top 4 slices of grilling bread with a slather of sauce, 2 ounces of fresh mozzarella, and a handful of basil leaves. Top with grilled bread. Continue to grill until cheese melts, flipping halfway through the process. Slice and serve immediately.
Notes
To make vegan, use a melt-able vegan mozzarella cheese (e.g., Daiya).
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Filed Under: Recipes, Sandwiches + Handhelds, Vegetarian Tagged With: Basil, Dinner, Grilled Cheese, Life, Lunch, Margherita Pizza, Moving, Mozzarella, San Marzano Tomatoes, Sandwich, Vegetarian

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  1. Celeste Jackson says

    June 10, 2013 at 5:25 pm

    That looks delicious. I like that the ingredients are simple and likely to have on hand.

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