Creamy Tomato Soup And Italian Patty Melts

Serves: 3

Estell Schumm

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

53

Spice

59

Sweetness

52

Sourness

44

mins

Prep time (avg)

3.9

Difficulty

Ingredients:

4 cups

Whole Milk

1

Salt

1 tsp

Sugar

2 cloves

Garlic (cracked)

Directions:

1

Drizzle the pan with extra-virgin olive oil and add the patties and cook 5 minutes on each side

2

Remove from the griddle and add another tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil and the peppers and onions

3

Season the peppers and onions and cook until just tender, 5 minutes

4

Remove them from the griddle

5

Wipe the griddle clean and reduce heat to medium low

6

Assemble sandwiches: place 4 slices of bread down, top with 1/4 each of the peppers onions, then a slice of cheese, a cooked sausage patty, another slice of cheese and then place bread on top

7

Add butter to griddle and cook sammy melts 2 or 3 minutes on each side until golden and cheese is melted

8

Press with spatula as sammies cook or set another heavy skillet on sammies to weigh them down

9

Pour soup into shallow bowls and add a couple of rounded spoonfuls of pesto to each dish and stir it into the soup

10

Cut the patty melts corner to corner and dip in the soup as you eat

11

Heat the milk over moderate heat in a medium pot

12

Put tomatoes, tomato paste, onions, salt and pepper, sugar, flour, butter, celery into a food processor and grind until smooth

13

Pour mixture into milk and raise heat to bring soup to a boil

14

Reduce heat and simmer 15 minutes

15

While soup cooks, make pesto and sammies

16

Fill the food processor with watercress, loosely packed

17

Add hazelnuts, 1/2 of the oil and garlic cloves to the watercress in the processor

18

Add nutmeg, salt and pepper to the processor bowl, set lid in place and pulse grind the mixture into a thick paste

19

Add any remaining watercress to the processor and grind into the paste by pulsing the processor again

20

Transfer watercress paste to a bowl

21

Stir in the remaining oil and the cheese

22

Taste pesto sauce and adjust seasonings

23

Heat a griddle over medium high heat