How To Make Grilled Ham-and-Cheese Sandwiches with Tapenade
Delight in these delightfully cheesy grilled ham-and-cheese sandwiches easy-melting cheese Mahón, and a spread of delicious olive-parsley tapenade.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2ozSpanish green olives
- 1clovesmall garlic
- 1tbspflat-leaf parsley,minced
- 1tspfresh lemon juice
- pinchred pepper,crushed
- 1½tspextra-virgin olive oil
- 8slicespeasant bread,(from a 1 pound loaf) ½ inch-thick
- 6ozyoung Mahón,or other young cheese, sliced
- 3ozlomo ham,thinly sliced, or thinly sliced Serrano ham trimmed of all fat
Instructions
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In a bowl, combine the olives with garlic, parsley, lemon juice, crushed red pepper, and 1½ teaspoons of olive oil.
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Preheat a grill pan or panini press.
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Arrange the bread slices on a work surface and brush 1 side of each slice with olive oil.
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Turn the oiled sides of the bread, face down.
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Spread the olive tapenade on 4 slices of the bread.
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Top with the sliced Mahón cheese and lomo ham, and close the sandwiches with the remaining slices of bread.
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Grill the sandwiches over moderate heat, turning once, for 5 to 6 minutes until the bread is lightly toasted and the cheese is melted.
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Transfer the ham-and-cheese sandwiches to a cutting board, halve, and serve at once.
Nutrition
- Calories: 226.45kcal
- Fat: 7.58g
- Saturated Fat: 1.60g
- Trans Fat: 0.02g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.12g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.40g
- Carbohydrates: 29.93g
- Fiber: 3.11g
- Sugar: 3.55g
- Protein: 9.96g
- Cholesterol: 12.12mg
- Sodium: 758.90mg
- Calcium: 92.04mg
- Potassium: 178.48mg
- Iron: 2.39mg
- Vitamin A: 6.83µg
- Vitamin C: 2.90mg
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