Tomato Mozzarella Sandwich

Ingredients

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  1 tbsp or 14g

• White bread

  Commercially prepared (includes soft bread crumbs)

  2 slice or 50g

• Mozzarella cheese

  Whole milk

  4 slices or 113g

• Tomatoes

  Red, ripe, raw, year round average

  1 slice, medium or 20g

• Salt

  Table

  1 dash or 0.4g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  1 dash or 0.1g

• Garlic

  Raw

  ½ cloves, minced or 2g

• Basil

  Fresh

  4 leaf, whole or 2g

Directions

1. Heat a 10-inch skillet over medium heat and coat lightly with olive oil. Place 1 piece of bread in the skillet. Lay two pieces of mozzarella cheese on top of the bread. Lay the tomato slices on top of the cheese and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Place the rest of the cheese on top of the tomato and top with the second piece of bread.
2. Check the bottom of the bread; if it is looking golden, flip the sandwich. Place a cast iron skillet on top of the flipped sandwich and cook for an additional 3 to 4 minutes to finish melting the cheese and toasting the bread.
3. Optional: Rub both pieces of bread with the cut half of a clove of garlic before assembling the sandwich.
4. Optional: Add a few leaves of basil in the center of the sandwich with the tomato.

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