Green Goddess Cream Cheese Veggie Sandwich
Recipes Healthy Cooking Main Dish Meal ideas Quick and Easy Vegetarian
Description
Make this fresh and delicious vegetarian sandwich for you and the people that you love. It is loaded with flavor and is so healthy. If you really must have a sandwich with meat, try sliced turkey.
Ingredients
7 oz. container light cream cheese
2 T. Italian flat leaf parsley, minced
2 T. basil leaves, minced
1 T. tarragon leaves, minced
1½ t. chives, minced
1 small garlic clove, pressed
¼ lemon, juiced
kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
4 slices thickly cut sandwich bread
extra virgin olive oil
½ zucchini, sliced
fresh baby spinach leaves
cucumber, very thinly sliced
Heirloom green tomato, thickly sliced
avocado, pitted and sliced
broccoli or alfalfa sprouts
Directions
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In a small bowl, mix the cream cheese, parsley, basil, tarragon, chives, garlic and lemon juice together. Season to taste with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper; set aside.
Heat a grill pan over high heat. Brush sliced zucchini with olive oil; season with salt and pepper; cook zucchini for about 3 minutes; flip; repeat on the other side. Remove from the pan; set aside to cool.
Spread one side of each bread slice with the cream cheese mixture.
On 2 slices of bread, stack the vegetables over the cream cheese mixture in the following order: zucchini slices, baby spinach, cucumber slices, tomato slices and avocado. Season with a sprinkle of kosher salt and pepper; top with sprouts. Place the top bread slice over the sprouts; slice in half; serve.
Reserve extra cream cheese for another use or more sandwiches.
Makes 2 sandwiches