Open Faced Vegetable Sandwich Food

ONE RECIPE, TWO MEALS: OPEN-FACED VEGGIE SANDWICHES WITH HUMMUS

Steps:

• First of all, equally divide the hummus between 2 bowls and swirl the pesto into one of the bowls. The pesto hummus is for your adult mouth! Yay, right?
• Take 3 slices of the crusty bread and slather with the original hummus. Top with half of the shaved carrots, followed by all of the apple slices and cucumbers. Top with half of the sprouts and serve it just like that to the kiddos! With some of the chips, natch.
• Now, slather the remaining 3 slices of crusty bread with the pesto hummus and top with the rest of the carrots, followed by the delicious roasted red peppers and radishes (spice!) and the rest of the sprouts. Serve with chips. Holla.
• Super-crazy simple veggie lunch or dinner be SERVED.

OPEN-FACED HOT TURKEY SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Remove turkey and butter from the refrigerator an hour or so before cooking, so that they are approaching room temperature when the turkey goes into the oven.
• Heat oven to 400. Rub turkey with butter, using your fingers to slide butter under the skin. Season the turkey with salt, pepper, sage and lemon zest.
• Place turkey thighs, skin-side down, into a cast-iron skillet or medium-size oven-safe gratin pan, and roast in the oven for 30 minutes. Turn turkey thighs over, add the wine to the pan or skillet and continue roasting for another 30 minutes or so, basting occasionally, until the turkey is cooked through, golden and crisp, and an instant-read thermometer inserted in the turkey's thickest part reads in the neighborhood of 165 degrees. Remove turkey thighs from the pan, and allow to rest on a cutting board while you make the gravy.
• Heat the stock in a small pot. Drain off all but four tablespoons of the fat in the pan or gratin dish. Place pan or dish over low heat on the stove, and whisk the flour into it to make a roux. Stir the roux for 3 to 4 minutes, and then slowly start to add the stock to it, whisking as you do, until the mixture is smooth. Cook, continuing to stir, until the gravy has thickened, approximately 8 to 10 minutes. Add the cream, milk or half-and-half, stir and allow the gravy to thicken again, 2 to 3 minutes more. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• To make the sandwiches, carve meat and skin from the turkey thighs, and assemble two separate piles. Toast the bread, and lay one slice on each plate. Put a pile of the meat on each piece of toast, spreading it across the surface of the bread. Absolutely drench each sandwich with the gravy, and serve alongside buttered peas, mashed potatoes and a dollop of cranberry sauce. For this application, canned cranberry sauce is, by etiquette, required.

OPEN-FACE VEGETABLE SANDWICHES, DIABETIC

Steps:

• Preheat broiler.
• Spread mustard over the cut side of each English muffin half.
• Arrange broccoli, bell pepper and carrot over mustard.
• Sprinkle with cheese.
• Place English muffin halves on the unheated rack of a broiler pan.
• Broil about 4 inches from the heat for 2 to 3 minutes, or until cheese melts.

OPEN FACED VEGETABLE SANDWICH

Steps:

• Prepare white sauce by heating 1 tablespoon butter in a pan.
• Add flour. Fry lightly.
• Add milk.
• Stir till it becomes like sauce.
• Add chopped onion, tomato, potatoes, green chillies, boiled corn, half cheese, salt and pepper.
• Lightly toast the bread slices. Apply butter on one side only.
• Spread the white sauce and vegetable mixture on the buttered side.
• Put the remaining grated cheese on top.
• Sprinkle tomato and chilli sauce and bake at 350 degree F for ten minutes or till cheese melts.
• Serve hot.

GRILLED OPEN-FACED VEGETABLE, PESTO, AND MOZZARELLA SANDWICHES

Steps:

• To make the sandwich:
• Prepare grill.
• Lightly brush bell peppers and eggplants with oil and grill on an oiled rack set about 4 inches over glowing coals about 4 minutes on each side, or until cooked through. Cut peppers into strips.
• Lightly brush cut sides of bread with oil and grill, cut sides down, about 2 minutes, or until golden. Spread each piece of bread with 4 tablespoons pesto and divide peppers, eggplants, and mozzarella between them. Grill sandwiches, covered, just until cheese is melted. (Alternatively, vegetables and assembled sandwiches may be broiled.) Sprinkle each sandwich with basil and cut in half.
• To make the pesto:
• In a blender or small food processor blend together all ingredients with salt and pepper to taste until smooth. Pesto keeps, covered and chilled, up to 1 week. Makes about 2/3 cup.