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Caprese Grilled Cheese

Caprese Grilled Cheese
Caprese Grilled Cheese is stuffed with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella cheese & fresh pesto! Grilled to perfection & served pipping hot; the BEST fresh lunch!
This Caprese Grilled Cheese Panini sandwich is seriously delicious. Not even going to sugar coat it or build it up, it is to.die.for. Make this for lunch, make it for dinner. Don’t wait, do it now.
Caprese Grilled Cheese

Ingredients
  • 1 crusty loaf of bread , sliced
  • 4 TBS fresh pesto
  • 8 slices mozzarella cheese (I used pre-sliced, you could also use fresh)
  • 3 large ripe tomatoes
  • 2 TBS balsamic vinegar
  • butter
Instructions
  1. Slice up your tomatoes in medium slices (should have about 12 slices for 4 sandwiches, or 3 slices per sandwich), and place them in a shallow dish. Pour 2 TBS balsamic vinegar over tomatoes. Let sit while preparing the rest.
  2. Instructions to make 1 sandwich, repeat until you have desired number of sandwiches (recipe is for 4)
  3. Butter both sides of bread lightly. Turn over, so butter is facing down. Top 1 slice with 1 TBS of pesto, add 1 slice of cheese, 3 tomatoes, and then another slice of cheese. If you like it really pesto-y, add some more pesto to top slice. Place top break slice butter side out.
  4. Heat skillet or panini press, and put sandwich on to cook. If using a skillet, flip when golden brown on one side. I cooked on a skillet for about 3 minutes on medium on each side. I cooked 2 sandwiches at a time and was easily able to flip with enough room in the pan. Repeat until all sandwiches are cooked.
  5. Cut in half with bread knife and enjoy!