Black Olive Pesto Sandwich
Black Olive Pesto Sandwich is a truly exotic combination of black olives, basil leaves, pepper and cashews into a blend to form a stuffing for this delicious sandwich.
Ingredients
- 8 whole wheat bread slices, lightly buttered
- 8 cheese slices
- a few tomato slices
- 1 tbsp butter
- salt to taste
- For the black olive pesto:
- 12 chopped black olives
- ¼ cup broken cashew nuts (kaju)
- ½ tsp freshly crushed black pepper (kalimirch) powder
- ¼ cup olive oil
- ½ cup fresh basil leaves
- salt to taste
Instructions
- For the black olive pesto
- Grind together all the ingredients other than the black olives, to a smooth paste in a blender.
- Add the black olives and mix well.
- Divide the olive pesto into 4 equal portions and keep aside.
- How to proceed:
- Trim the edges of the bread slices.
- Spread one portion of the pesto on one slice of bread. Top with 2 cheese slices and tomato slices and sandwich using another slice of bread.
- Repeat with the remaining ingredients to make 3 more sandwiches.
- Serve immediately.