New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
New! Cream cheese, sweet chili sauce and coriander dip with smashed potatoes view recipe
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Spinach pesto panini

For every great sandwich in the world, there is a hundred bad ones. The world is full of mediocre sandwiches, the ones you eat because you’re in a hurry or because there were no other options, prepackaged ones where the bread has become dry, or soggy ones we took to school. This is one of the good ones, inspired by a sandwich I ate regularly long ago, at a sliver of a cafe in Sydney’s Darlinghurst called Latteria.

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A close-up of a sandwich cut in half, filled with green pesto, slices of tomato, cheese, and leafy greens on white bread.
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The panini was not fancy – spinach pesto, tomato, provolone. But it was perfectly melty, green and salty. I still think about this sandwich a lot. Making my own version made me feel young again.

They key to this sandwich is the pesto – make it the star and slather both sides of the bread liberally. For the memories,  I like it toasted, but if you have fresh bread, it is fine un-toasted. The choice of cheese is yours, but I like a sharp, salty cheese like provolone or cheddar.

 

Spinach pesto panini

Serves 4

Ingredients

  • Spinach pesto
  • 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  • 180 g spinach, if using bunched spinach, roughly chopped
  • 80 ml extra virgin olive oil
  • 35 g toasted pine nuts
  • Zest and juice of 1/2 lemon
  • 2 tablespoons nutritional yeast or grated parmesan
  • sea salt black pepper
  • 15 g basil, finely chopped

Sandwiches

  • 4 bread rolls or Focaccia
  • 2 Roma or beefsteak tomatoes
  • 4 slices cheese such as provolone, mozzarella, cheddar or gruyere
  • salt and pepper
  • Extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling

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