English Muffin Panini with Goat Cheese and Tomato
Serves 4
30 minutes or fewer
Humboldt Fog and Bûcheron de chèvre cheese are round goat cheeses with the same diameter as an English muffin.
- 4 English muffins, split and toasted
- 3 Tbs. prepared pesto
- 4 oz. Humboldt Fog goat cheese or Bûcheron de chèvre, sliced into 4 rounds
- 4 large tomato slices
- 8 leaves radicchio
1. Spread toasted side of each English muffin half with pesto. Spread cheese or lay cheese round over 4 English muffin halves; top with tomato slices, radicchio, and remaining English muffin halves.
2. Place sandwiches in skillet or grill pan, and weight with sandwich press or a smaller-diameter saucepan weighted with 1 or 2 cans. Cook 2 minutes, remove weight, flip panini, replace weight, and cook 2 minutes more. (Or cook 4 minutes in panini maker.)
July/August 2011 p.38
Delicious! You don't need much goat cheese though, I found myself scraping some off. I used whole wheat English muffins, tomatoes from my garden and also put some fresh basil on (also from the garden). I actually feel like you could omit the cheese and this would be a great sandwich.
M. - 2011-09-01 09:24:25