How To Make Focaccia Three-Cheese Italian Grilled Cheese Recipe
Your favorite grilled cheese made cheesier with this recipe. Three kinds of cheeses tossed with a garlic tomato paste and topped with basil leaves.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2garlic or herb focaccia bread, halved
- 4Tbsplight ricotta cheesedivided
- 4 Tbspgarlic tomato paste divided, or normal tomato paste mixed with ½ tsp. minced garlic
- 6 char grilled red capsicumor roasted red capsicum/pepper slices , drained and divided
- 1ripe tomato sliced and divided
- ½cup mozzarella cheesesliced, or grated, divided
- 4Tbspparmesan cheese grated, divided
- 10fresh basil leaves divided
Instructions
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Preheat sandwich press, or prepare a frying pan with a small amount of cooking oil spray. Set aside.
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Spread the ricotta cheese over the focaccia bases. Layer with the peppers or capsicum pieces, tomato slices, mozzarella slices, parmesan cheese, and basil leaves. Season with salt.
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Spread the tomato paste over the focaccia tops, and sandwich them over the cheese.
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Grill in the preheated sandwich press or on the frying pan for about 5 minutes for the sandwich press or 4 minutes each side for frying pans until toasted, heated through, and cheese has melted.
Nutrition
- Calories: 1013.30kcal
- Fat: 73.16g
- Saturated Fat: 46.10g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 20.81g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.39g
- Carbohydrates: 21.37g
- Fiber: 1.94g
- Sugar: 6.67g
- Protein: 69.08g
- Cholesterol: 259.61mg
- Sodium: 2260.37mg
- Calcium: 1837.79mg
- Potassium: 655.90mg
- Iron: 1.92mg
- Vitamin A: 631.92µg
- Vitamin C: 19.87mg
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